I’m a serial phone dropper. I’ve had my HTC Desire for a few months now and dropped it at least 10 times. Once it even fell down a full flight of stairs.
Thankfully, its fine. Sure its scratched up to hell and the back flew off but once I’d put the pieces back together it all worked just the same.
This has been the same for every modern phone I’ve owned. None of them were ever seriously damaged by my clumsiness – they just got beat up.
In the future however, I may not be so lucky. Check out this video of someone dropping a brand new iPhone:
A design flaw? Sure, but because Apple provide the inception for other firms to follow suit we can expect Samsung, HTC, Motorola and Co to put their own swing on the new iPhone design which could result in a bevy of breakable phones in the near future.
I’ve never had to worry about the ‘dropability’ of a new phone but if the new iPhone is a glimpse of the future I’m seriously worried!
I’ve had my office Microsoft Intellimouse for 7 years now. I’ve also had the SAME one at home for over 11 years.
Both mice are showing their age with my office one only recognising 1 in every 3 clicks and my home one freezing every now and again. Because of this its time to move on and get a new mouse, hell, I may as well get a new keyboard too.
Enter Logitech
10 years ago Microsoft were at the forefront of mouse design. Recently Logitech have taken this mantle after a string of excellent gaming mice.
Its also evident that wireless is the new in-thing. Try as I might I couldn’t find a high-tech wired mouse for the office!
After a couple of weeks doing R&D into the new world of mice I settled for the ‘Logitech Cordless Desktop MX 5500 Revolution’:
The MX 5500 bundle includes the MX Revolution Mouse which by my reckoning is the best non-gamer mouse on the market right now.
It also comes with what appears to be a super snazzy keyboard, something I have needed at home since I accidentally ordered a Dell USA layout keyboard from eBay 2 years ago.
At £50 for the mouse and £100 for the bundle they arn’t cheap but I paid £50 for each of my Intellimice and got almost 10 years out of each of them.
Hello, I'm Kimb. I don't use the 'Michael' part of my name so neither should you.
I create web-based solutions for businesses and individuals and I've been doing it for over 10 years now. You can check out some of my work over at my design business base6.
These days I mainly work with WordPress because its free, great to work with and best of all open-source.
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@drawar Yeh I never got into the whole 'noise' fad. I'll probably arrive late to the party and use it on my personal site next year ;) in reply to drawar12 hrs ago
My bad back is miles better today, can walk unaided thanks to plenty of pain killers. 12 hrs ago
