Android Phones More Prone To Hardware Problems 220
adeelarshad82 writes "A nearly year-long study conducted by WDS on 600,000 support calls has found that Android phones are more susceptible to hardware faults than other types of devices. '14 percent of all technical support calls for Android devices could be traced to a hardware fault, versus 3.7 percent for RIM BlackBerry, 8 percent for iPhones and 9 percent for Windows Phone 7 devices.' WDS attributed the gap in hardware faults to the disparity in OEMs that manufacture Android devices."
Re:In other news (Score:4, Informative)
the author explains his study a little bit [pcmag.com] in TFAcomments.
the focus of the study was something like "how many support calls will end in an (expansive) hardware replacement".
Re:Of course - its by design! (Score:5, Informative)
Android runs on the full gambit of available phone devices.
I hate to do this, but please, use the phrase correctly. The word in bold should be "gamut", [wikipedia.org] as in "the full gamut".
Examples [wordhippo.com]
(What is a partial gambit? [wikipedia.org] You offer your bishop but your opponent hasn't captured it yet?)