“Nexus 5 is suffering from major quality issues, after complaints about low ringtone volume, creaky buttons we now have reports of the letters falling off,” Android News reports.
“As you can see in the image the ‘e’ from the ‘Nexus’ has come off,” Android News reports. “These letters are supposed to be ceramic but apparently they are not, poking your nails will make the letters fall off.”
Read more in the full article here.
Daniel Bean reports for Yahoo News, “Some owners of Google’s Nexus 5 smartphone and Nexus 7 tablet devices are complaining of losing the shiny plastic NEXUS letters from the backs of their phones and tablets (like the two Nexus 5s shown below), according to tech sites and forum posts from around the Web. In most of these instances, the glue that holds the letters in place has seemingly given out.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s all very copacetic when the quality of the Android device matches the quality of the Android customer.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “elder norm” for the heads up.]
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Not even doing a very good job of PRETENDING it’s a quality product.
“It’s all well and good until someone gets an “e” knocked out!”
e ? eye? I get them mixed up. LOL
Why Google has been able to get away with copying iOS for so long still baffles me. At least Google and other Android makers can’t overtake Apple in hardware build fit and finish, materials, design, iOS integration and best ecosystem there is.
It’s not hard to figure out. Apple for whatever reason gave Goole a free pass by not taking them to court directly.
Apple did not take them to court because Android is not sold for money. Meanwhile they have taken a bunch of manufacturers to court and and won pretty much every case. So did Microsoft. The fees the licensers have to pay have cut severely into their profits.
Oracle took GOOG to court on using copyrighted Java APIs in Android. Jury ruled for ORACLE, but judge overrode the decsion and said APIs not copyrightable. Appeal is in court this week. Early indication is that the judge will be overruled. If Oracle prevails, GOOG has to pay big bucks -or perhaps rewrite Android. Apple likely go after the lesser manufacturers because low market potential gains would not cover court costs. Once the Samedung decisions are upheld on appeal, I would expect apple to go after the crumbs using the various court decisions. More info on Oracle case on Foss Patents site.
Suckas!!
It’s still an Editor’s Choice product…since they’re all graded on a curve.
Its about not offending advertisers or potential advertisers.
Suckas!!!!!
Wait wait wait… Wasn’t this supposed to be the smartphone that would have killed the iPhone? Which apple should have been worried of? The super technological product that would have left the iPhone years behind…? I remember an old post on MDN: apple better do something… Apple needs to come up with something as good as this…
BWAHAHAHAHA!!! Amazing the losers out there who will buy it anyway.
Ceramic letters? Those are clearly plastic. Easy to tell… even before they fell off.
K uger!
Lmao, cheap glue for a cheap phone
Eric T. Mole must have mixed in some of the software code papers for Apple’s Keynote software that enables the falling letters effect we’ve seen during many of Steve’s keynotes when Eric snuck away with the iPhone plans after one fateful Apple Board of Directors meeting!
I don’t get it, so this people buys crap and they expect it not to stink?
this is the second time Asus has had issues delivering a solid Nexus 7.
the first run of the 7 had LCD issues.
It always amazes me when the fandroid bois claim that iPhones cost more because Apple is mean and charges more for nothing. But I learned a long, long time ago that the cheapest product is almost never the best. I point out that the rule You-get-what-you-pay-for applies to computers and phones, but no. They will say people only buy Apple because of their awesome advertising. There are times when stupidity humors me, but more often than not it’s just sad.
The rule is that you always pay for what you get, but you don’t always get what you pay for.
Schmidt’s response to complainers is ‘eat dick’.
“Can I buy a vowel?”
Plastic glued together. What a joke.
Love it!
in the end this is why you pay more for other phones, it is the expense to keep buying after you already own the thing!
Not having these issues with my Nexus 7.
Are you sure? Check the junk drawer again.
Not in the junk drawer, but my briefcase. I carry it to work with me every day like my iPad 1, but it’s not so clunky to use.
My First iPhone 5S had a squeaky home button; my second iPhone 5S rattled; my third iPhone 5S is acceptable. However, I shouldn’t of had to take two iPhones back to be satisfied. Apple needs to watch its strp or the next iPhone release will be accompanied by these kinds of articles.
“shouldn’t have”
Working as designed, like crap.
Obviously you idiots are MAC lovers, and i wouldn’t expect you to write anything good about GOOGLE, but you have to accept, APPLE IS NOTHING WITHOUT GOOGLE! Look at Apple’s Maps app. it cannot find a goddarn location. It sits there for hours finding your own damnnn location. Apple’s texting app cannot be integrated into other apps, Apple’s Calender app cannot be configured to any other device but iOS. Hence google’s calender can! I’ve a list of plenty other. Apple sued Samsung, but it’s own processor comes from SAMSUNG! All in all, APPLE cannot last a minute without these companies. 85% of Apple users, choose Google+! I’m not trolling here, just stating the cold hard facts, that you guys never think about.
Also, let me add… iPhone’s screen and camera cracks within minutes of you dropping it, so it surely has it’s flaws as well as android!
Apple fanboys,
Apple fanboys everywhere.
So much sheep in 1 place.