A Limited Edition Religion
FINALLY have my replacement mobo. Stupid thing took forever. Mind you, they had to test it and ensure that in fact, they had sold me a broken mobo. Soon I will have a PCU that isn't singing a swan song (my CPU makes this high pitched "eeeeeeee" noise I am pretty sure isn't good
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The Samsung problem is representative of everything that's wrong with the mobile comms market in North America, and in the wilderness of the Great Northern Reaches of Canuckistania in particular. Now, I don't mean to go off on a rant here, but I'm about to. Sorry in advance.
As you've no doubt long known, the Samsung telephones highly subsidized and thus widely distributed by Rogers et al are most known for tacking pleasant graphical animations on top of a shoddy, feature-free core operating system (no support for sending or receiving concatenated SMS? Capitalization problems with T9 input? A user dictionary that a light user can overflow in a week of light use? Seriously?); for perpetuating the ignominy of antennas which are not only external, but able and expected to be extended during use; and for fit, finish and build quality befitting a device with a mean time between failure closely approximating the average provider contract term.
The manuals are opaque, if present at all. The few configuration options the devices do have are exposed primarily to operator-owned hardware dongles controlled by monolithic, proprietary software suites, and poorly by the user-facing user interface, if at all. It is painfully obvious that the Samsung phones in our country were aimed at a clientele of corporate device purchasers, not human users; one cannot help but imagine that the blue-sky design phase centered around a pocket-sized slab of plastic featuring a single large button labelled "pay money to provider".
In short: fuck Samsung; fuck Rogers; get an unlocked Nokia, preferably an E-series device. I'll let you know when my E51 stops being my primary widget; I can't in good conscience stand by while someone is forced to use Samsung hardware.
Courage, dear friend.
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