The Nexus One is an excellent smartphone. Just don’t put them in your pockets (like you would any other phone). Apparently, a CNET UK staffer told HTC support that the display on their Nexus One cracked “while charging on a desk.” Now, no one can prove that it was actually charging on a desk or if it was dropped from the desk while charging, but HTC’s tech support suggested that a small crack could be caused by putting the phone in a tight pair of jeans and then sitting down, and the crack just spread.
But that’s the key here: after putting out a video that showed the Nexus One being put through a series of torture tests, they’re saying that these phones won’t survive the average jeans pocket? By the way, yes, they actually said that. “People sometimes forget that they don’t go in pockets,” goes the quote from HTC support. They really should put that on the box—in big red letters, lest we forget.
Total damage for pocketing your Nexus One with a cracked screen: around £180 ($270), including parts, labor, shipping and VAT for smartphone-pocketers in the UK.
Tags: Google NE, Google Nexus One, HTC, Mobile Phones, Smartphones, Touchscreen phones
