Thread: Just how robust are the N8*0s anyway?
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2009-05-20 , 18:51
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Originally Posted by luca View Post
OTOH the 2mm charging plug is a piece of sh**. My n800 fell while charging and that was enough to break both the plug (no big deal) and the socket (big deal).
Luckily I could somewhat repair the socket with some foam, but that didn't give me the impression of a robust device (and the fact that the screen died all by itself also reinforced my negative impression).
The 2mm plug is being phased out in favour of the microUSB port being used for charging.

The five biggest phone manufacturers (Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, Motorola) agreed to do this earlier this year, their aim is to have most new models using a single microUSB charging standard by 2012. Their chargers will be totally interchangeable.

There are already some Nokia models which use microUSB charging (for example the Nokia N85) and perhaps the next Maemo device will use microUSB charging too.

The idea is to gradually ramp up the percentage of devices with microUSB charging, though it can't happen overnight (it didn't happen overnight when they switched to 2mm either) because of the scale of production and the number of chargers already out there.
Last edited by krisse; 2009-05-20 at 18:53.
 

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