iPhone draws blood
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Now I know I should be blogging about RBI or UFB, but there is more urgent human drama closer to the NBR office.
Keen readers will know that my colleague Georgina manged to smash her iPhone screen last year.
Here's how it looked in December:
Here's how it looks today (click to zoom):
You'll notice further fragmentation.
In fact, that's where our latest development begins: one of the shards fell to the floor, then sliced through the sole of Georgina's shoe - illustrating that it was one tough sliver of screen. Blood was drawn. Georgina was forced to withdraw to the bathroom (yes, this was a bar) and wash her blood-soaked foot in the sink.
Now, there are some negative aspects to this story, including the fact the screen got busted in the first place, and the fact Vodafone quietly cancelled its iPhone 4 insurance plan (initially a shortage was cited, but one Apple's new handset arrived in numbers, it stayed off the table. Just, well, because).
Yet it's also a story of endurance.
Sixty six days after its initial trauma, the iPhone 3GS is still working (Georgina's doing okay too).
The upside of the Whitcoulls/Borders meltdown? Laserstrike
I hope RedGroup, and its Whitcoulls and Borders stores survive (more so the latter; I can live without Creepy Santa).
But, walking through Borders Queent Street, Auckland store at lunchtime, I was wondering what would become of it if the worst happened.
It's such a vast, vast areas, but spread over multiple subterranian flloors, with many strangely shaped spaces.
When I mulled about this on Twitter, two people fired back the same answer: it would be perfect laser tag.
A free Samsung TV
NBR last encountered reader Grant Smith when his Samsung TV got mired in the Next Electronics meltdown.
Next went into receivership - and around 50 jobs were lost - when the nationwide servicing chain went into receivership.
Some kit in for repair - including Mr Smith's flatscreen - was temporarily stranded in limbo-land while Samsung, and others, worked out arrangements with Next's receiver.
Recently, Mr Smith emailed NBR to let us know his saga had a happy ending:
In fact, he never saw his stranded TV again, but Samsung NZ, through Harvey Norman, decided to replace it with a brand new 40-inch Samsung Series 5 set.
Nice one.
Samsung has taken its service business elsewhere.
Incidentally, a Next subsidiary was the service agent for the exploding HTC cellphone recently featured on NBR (read: Christchurch man's flaming phone 'an isolated incident' - HTC).
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