failure

Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Music

30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All At Once

8:10PM John Herrman | Right, so this is a weird one: we’re getting tons of reports—tons—about failing Zune 30s. Apparently, the players began freezing at about midnight last night, becoming totally unresponsive and practically useless. Update: The easy official fix here. More »
Share Comment

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Phones

Blackberries Fail Twice as Often as iPhones, But Less Than Treos

11:15PM Mark Wilson | Research group SquareTrade recently released the results of a massive mobile phone study. They tracked 15,000 individual handsets over their first year of use, and they found some large discrepancies in reliability. The iPhone malfunction rate sat at a comfortable 5.6%. The Blackberry (in its various incarnations) jumped to 11.9%. But it’s all better than the Palm Treo, which malfunctioned 16.2% of the time within the first year. More »
Share Comment