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What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?
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Samsung M540 "Slyde" phone - The software was incredibly buggy including things like just randomly typing the wrong letter. Randomly bad tech is so much more irritating than tech you know is bad.
Google Nexus 7 (2012) - The tablet had defective chips that slowed down over time. Turned into a horrible slow piece of shit over time.
Was that the first version Nexus 7? I had the refreshed version and it was my favourite bit of tech ever. I ran it for about 5 years until the screen and battery both died. I loved that thing.
I still have the refreshed second gen version running, got an android 12 rom flashed and now it is being used with an amcrest camera as a privacy friendly nanny cam monitor!
They were brilliant. I ran a Nexus 10 for about 5 years, and about the same from a Nexus 9 my BIL asked me to look at. I forget the ROM but he couldn't believe it kept getting OTA updates for that long.
Those were the days, enjoy your 7!
Oh, remember the good old Nexus 7. Had only a fraction of its performance 1-2 years down the line...
Meanwhile, my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1 2016 still soldiers on with good performance, even if it hasn't gotten updates in half a decade, and its internal 16GB space is beyond ridiculously small for today's standards and has to be cleaned up revery few months.
Hahaha. Shit, I didn't even get that far before the touch digitalizer broke. Maybe 8 months in and dead.
I got mad because my mom bought it in the US. Didn't sell in my country. What a piece of shit.
Edit: It was made by ASUS!