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Some of you may remember I have been having to endure with a bunch of shitty mobile phones, simply because SONY Ericsson decided to have a mental attack and either take features out of phones that people would want … or simply make them so bloody uncomfortable to use, you’d rather rely on 2 tins with a piece of string attached.
Well after Nokia’s, iPhones, HTC, Samsung’s and pretty much everything inbetween, I finally got my hands on a SONY Ericsson that is half decent [the C905 if you really give a shit] and I can’t tell you how pleased it’s made me.
Of course being a moaning bastard not everything is perfect – and I hate to say it, but I’ve obviously got used to some of the NOKIA tools that I previously slagged off – however as much as this demonstrates that over time you can get used to pretty much anything, when a brand does stuff in a way that really works for you [as the SE navigation system does for me] you’ll hang in there because underneath it all, you know that’s the thing for you.
Saying that, I can’t work out why one of the manufacturers hasn’t set up a subsidiary that basically lets customers’ build-their-own-phone.
Unlike DELL it wouldn’t be a cheap option, it would be a premium service but I still think there’s enough sad bastards like me who’d use it and make it worth their while.
Anyway all this leaves me to say is that in a World where people dispose of things in the blink of an eye, maybe I’m the last brand loyalists on Earth – unless someone out there can tell me about a time where they went back to a brand even though they’d been making substandard products for a few years.
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Basically anyone that loves their Holden?
Comment by Age October 27, 2008 @ 6:38 amanother fucking new phone? you sad bastard and i dont want you spending 3 hours showing me every fucking feature that makes it cool because i dont give a fucking shit. alright?
Comment by andy@cynic October 27, 2008 @ 7:59 amI don’t drink … I don’t smoke … I don’t murder people … I don’t get divorced … let me have one bloody vice for godsake! 🙂
Comment by Rob October 27, 2008 @ 9:52 amandy murders people?
Comment by lauren October 27, 2008 @ 11:42 amYou should sit in one of his creative reviews Lauren … it can breach the Geneva convention at times.
Comment by Rob October 27, 2008 @ 12:17 pmThe legend grows larger…
*literally*
Comment by Age October 27, 2008 @ 12:40 pmNote to self: no more free iphones to Rob Campbell.
Come on Robert you can do better than Sony Ericsson ccan’t you?
Comment by Bazza October 27, 2008 @ 4:58 pmI was loyal to Sharp phones until they stopped making high end models.
I am still loyal or happily preferable to many brands: Colgate total, pukka pies, sennheiser, korg
Comment by Rob Mortimer October 27, 2008 @ 5:28 pmYou don’t want Rob to hear about your love of Colgate Rob Mortimer 🙂
Comment by Bazza October 27, 2008 @ 5:45 pmThere’s a real difference between loyalty and habit and most companies complacently confuse the two (usually with dire results).
Comment by John October 27, 2008 @ 5:46 pmI think this is where Robert recounts his Coca-Cola story where he was lucky to leave Atlanta alive. Naturally George mopped up the mess even though what Robert said was brutally accurate.
Comment by Bazza October 27, 2008 @ 5:49 pmI don’t think George’s blood pressure could take me reliving that episode Baz,ha!
PS: When you sort out Age’s issues with the iPhone, I’ll start using it – hahaha!
Comment by Rob October 27, 2008 @ 7:03 pmMy loyalty there is solely product related, not brand.
Comment by Rob Mortimer October 27, 2008 @ 8:39 pmso mortimer loves colgate.
what the fuck has happened to that guy? earth calling mortimer earth calling mortimer get a fucking grip 🙂
Comment by andy@cynic October 27, 2008 @ 11:39 pmNo andy, its the total i like, not the colgate.
Comment by Rob Mortimer October 27, 2008 @ 11:58 pmi know in the bullshit community you might be able to get away with that crap comment but in the real fucking world youre still a bloke who has admitted to liking fucking toothpaste.
i am giving you this shit out of love, not gay love but love and you better fucking appreciate it
Comment by andy@cynic October 28, 2008 @ 12:06 amI do Andy. I do.
I like it because its been proven to work. And partly out of sympathy that they were banned (in the uk) from stating a credible fact in an ad for no decent reason.
The fact based on supposedly solid research was essentially: ‘more dentists use total than any other toothpaste’. I still don’t see why that was taken off.
CP however I don’t give a monkeys for.
Also, its toothpaste I know… but as a kid I hated the stuff my parents bought (it tasted awful) so it was a nice change.
Comment by Rob Mortimer October 28, 2008 @ 12:24 amits just toothpaste.
Good evening.
Comment by Marcus October 28, 2008 @ 3:46 ami’m loyal to a price point. i am your ultimate lowest common denominator consumer.
Comment by lauren October 28, 2008 @ 8:41 am