Thread: Does your N800 have a touchscreen issue?
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Originally Posted by Frankowitz View Post
Though this shouldn't be blown out of proportions, I think 'not enough to be statistically significant' is a bit besides the truth also. Potential buyers have a right to know what problems -might- occur should they decide to buy one.
To potential buyers: try one in the store before you buy and don't buy online to prevent getting a device with the above mentioned problem(s).

I'll watch this thread with great interest!
I don't lie. I have no reason to.

Are there touchscreen issues? Yes. Do they affect more than 5% of devices manufactured? Highly doubtful. It's fine to speculate either way but I've seen the evidence first-hand.

I'm not going to go on another spiel about quality assurance practices and probability. I think I've done it to death. But people would do well to remember: happy customers don't complain. The silent majority isn't experiencing these issues. Even if this thread was filled with a majority of owners reporting touchscreen problems (50% at the moment) that STILL does not mean that the majority of devices manufactured exhibit the reported problem. It simply means a group has aggregated on a dedicated forum.

I quite frankly don't understand why this is so difficult for some to understand.

I'm not trying to be a jackass but please-- a little intellectual honesty goes a long way. I also don't appreciate insinuations that I'm lying about the scope of this issue.

And of course potential buyers have a right to know about problems they might encounter-- but there's no relationship between that obligation and the magnitude of the problem... so I'm confused why you strung those sentences together.