Showing posts with label Consumer electronics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Consumer electronics. Show all posts

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Cell phone on the blink


Have you ever heard of that old saying, "When it rains, it pours" ? Well, that's exactly what has happened to me with electronics this past week. It's not enough that my poor laptop has died on me, but now my wife's 1 year old droid cell phone has just started giving us problems. The original charger that I purchased with this cell phone stopped working the other day and the only thing I had to charge my dying battery was my car charger which by the way doesn't charge as nearly as fast and good as the a/c charger. Urgghhhhhh! Lately, I've been criticizing Motorola for their poor charging port design because of it's small miniture size and how fragile it really is. The steel charging port has become enlarged from sticking the cable in there so many times to charge the battery. What a crappy design this is. Even my co-worker said his sister had a droid and said it's too small and prone to damage unlike the iPhone which uses a larger charging port to charge their battery. I took it into verizon which is my wireless carrier and they suggested I either have a shop fix it or live with it until my contract will offer me a new upgrade around the middle of the month. I decided to live with it. I told my wife I will let her choose the cell phone this year. She wants the apple iPhone. Yeahhhh honie, good choice!

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Sanyo 52" LCD TV or Toshiba 55" LCD TV


My wife and I are planning on buying a LCD TV next year once we get our tax return but there's so many models to choose from and so many available features, we are confused on which one to buy. We went to walmart to look at some TV's and finally settled on a sanyo after many trips to walmart. When I got home, I was curious about what other people, who had bought a sanyo thought about their new TV so I checked out the reviews of 29 people and I was surprised to see that the 52" sanyo model # DP52440 had many complaints about the sound being out of sync with the video. I noticed there were lots of complaints also about it not being a good TV for playing video games. One comment from a man who sells these TV's said that he sells this product and its one of the most competitive products for features and price. You can check out all the reviews of this LCD TV at the store website. I'm glad I did my homework because my wife and I decided against buying this TV for these reasons. I went to the Best Buy website and found a 55" Toshiba model # 55HT1U TV for 1 dollar more and 3 inches bigger. I read the reviews and I only found 1 complaint. The bad thing is you can't connect to the internet with this TV but that's OK. I hope those who are looking for a good TV will find this article useful.