Jas Jar hinge longevity

[tintoy]

Ok, I give my jas jar hinge a month before it fails (based on nothing more than a feeling!). I reckon i must rotate,flip,rotate it about twenty times a day at the moment. Surely nothing is that well engineered!

What do other universal owners reckon? - PLACE YER BETS!

[Carnivor]

these days things are made to guarentee so i rekon a year

[smoothunit]

knowing my luck, the 12 month warranty will expire, then the hinge will break, approx 15 months.

[srcurtis]

I'm on my second JasJar.

The hinge lasted about 2 hours on my first.

Steve

[tintoy]

ekk. how did it fail?

[srcurtis]

Hi

I really don't know.

When I first opened the box I was disappointed to see that the display portion of the clam shell was not sitting straight and I believe that this led to the failure.

I'm not sure if it was manufactured poorly or if my supplier had a play before sending it to me.

Steve

[155]

It will last longer. I fell asleep on my jasjar with the hinge in laptop mode and it got pushed forward. I ended up doing this twice and I put a lot of pressure on the hinge when I fell asleep (I've had my universal a couple week) It doesn't seem damaged at all.

I think it will last a long time :)

[universaldoc]

@155,

I know being a daredevil is cool n all but the next time could you please sleep somewhere far far away from the JJ? :D

[xiasma]

I fell asleep on my jasjar

errrrrrrr, are they *cough* splash-proof too?

[tintoy]

ewwww.

[trapper]

I know the o2 XDA range actually come with 2 years warranty if that's of any help.

[tintoy]

blimey - who keeps a pda for 2 years?

[MarkD]

As you'll see from my post in "Broken Screen", mine lasted 48 hours. My supplier said that they had got 75% of the Jasjars they had supplied back again because of this problem. Not sure I believe that, but I am still considering whether to cancel the whole thing because of this problem. Shame, because I loved it for a couple of days!

[adam_beasley]

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[wizrod]

blimey - who keeps a pda for 2 years?

My XDAII will be 2 yrs old at the end of the month, though I'd have replaced it 6 months ago if the Exec were available then! :wink:

[techDot]

having had a Sony Clie NX70 (yes it's a palm OS....) for nearly 35 months - which has the same type of hinge -- in fact I am quite sure HTC stole the idea from Sony for the betterment of us all :lol: -- I am quite sure it can last a VERY long time.

My Clie did suffer a lot of abuse and even fell on concrete quite a few times - and it still works just the same!

I guess the hinge will last long enough to survive the replacement of the Universal device with a newer model. :P

[joebongo]

blimey - who keeps a pda for 2 years?

The vast majority of us now the damned telco's are phasing out the 12 month contract and going for 18+ jobs.

PS: I have a Clie NZ-90 that has survived many years (got it Feb 2002), and it is built like an old Mercedes. Top notch longevity.

[shivafool]

blimey - who keeps a pda for 2 years?

My jasjar is replacing my ipaq 3650, i.e. one of the original ipaq's and a Motorola phone that was about as old. I kept waiting until I thought there was enough of a reason, and with the HTC Universal I decided there was. I am hoping to keep my jasjar for as long as I've had my ipaq.
So I'll play PollyAnna, and say "My goodness, why on earth would the hinge fail?" :lol: