At launch, the BlackBerry Storm was so buggy RIM promised patches before it even landed in consumers’ hands. RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie now explains the situation perfectly: Buggy, busted arse smartphones are the “new reality.”
The standard “journalism” rule is that three is trend. So here’s one with the new MacBooks: They’ve got problems! Screwy video cards, insomniatic, power-sucking sleep and not playing well with other RAM.
At Giz Gallery, Tom alerted us to a serious problem with HTC Touch Diamonds: After a few minutes, the backlight becomes permanently dim, making the phone unusable, and there is no fix yet.
See, this is what I mean with product beta culture: Apple has acknowledged two video problems in both the new MacBook and MacBook Pros, following past video problems with other MacBook lines. One of them seems pretty obvious. Called “the black screen of death”, it happens when the graphic card goes into overload playing games, turning off video and locking up the system while the audio enters into a loop. Apparently it’s a thermal issue, but Apple doesn’t know if this is a hardware or software problem yet, according to an Apple Support forums member:
