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Monday, May 15, 2006
Look ma, no ear
Reuters reports:
All our politicians should instantly be given some Motorola phones from Brazil, with free non-original batteries, for official use (for once, I won't complain about the waste of taxpayers' money). That's how you turn a defect into a feature.
At least five mobile phones have exploded over the last two months in Brazil, causing anxiety among phone users and making news headlines.Motorola, by and by, has said that "the probable cause of the explosion was that the owners used non-original or low-quality batteries."
The incidents, representing only a fraction of the 89 million phones in circulation in Brazil, all involved Motorola phones.
All our politicians should instantly be given some Motorola phones from Brazil, with free non-original batteries, for official use (for once, I won't complain about the waste of taxpayers' money). That's how you turn a defect into a feature.
