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Originally Posted by plib
Then you've either had extraordinary bad luck or their employees were extraordinarily careless. Devices with card slots have been around for years and I've never heard of anyone having to replace "dozens of phones", or any other card slotted device because of "dust ingress"
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Oh, OK - so because you've never heard of it, it can't have happened, right??
There's no FUD here. Want the whole story? OK, pour a brew and pull up a chair...
I'm going back six or seven years and was working under contract to a large construction company. Company phones were Sony Ericsson. I had a K750i and two K800i rendered unusable in that year - the card slot was protected by a little rubber door/bung that never sealed properly, and regularly just broke clean off; dust and muck would get in there under the keyboard and the little joystick/button would stop working. End of phone.
I and my work colleagues of that time were neither unlucky nor careless, simply working in more hostile environments (construction sites) than most, though the 'sticky' joystick on these SE models was a common problem to many users. As a lowly contract worker I didn't have a fancy 'pen-based' phone (SE P900 I think they were) but the folks who did were always losing their little sticks; OK, maybe they
were careless with company phones <shrug> Doesn't mean it didn't happen - feel free to google "Sony Ericsson sticky joystick" or "lost my stylus pen" and see how many hits you get...
Now none of the above is to suggest that there isn't a place for stylus-driven touch-screens (great point made further up re handwritten character-based languages for example) card slots, ports etc.. etc.. but it's certainly
not the case that everything pre-2007 was wonderful and working perfectly, then the iPhone came along and ruined it all...
Just sayin'