Tech Fails

[Retard Marine]

For example, if you wanted to switch to another game, you had to take off the cover and remove the battery because some genius thought it would be a good idea to put the game cart slot under the battery.
Imagine fucking with that shit on a bus.

The solution to this was of course to buy a big generic MMC card and leave it there, then just pirate all the games and applications.

You forgot to mention that you had to hold it this way to talk:

You could actually usually hear calls well enough holding it the "regular" way even though sidetalking was the intended way. Or reversed if you don't want to look too silly but don't want to get the screen smudgy. Some people drilled holes for the speaker in the back but I found that's not really necessary.

At one point it was a very cheap way to get a Symbian S60 smartphone with relatively good specs (16MBs of RAM and all) when everyone wanted to get rid of them lol. I still have mine.

 

[Mikoyan]

The solution to this was of course to buy a big generic MMC card and leave it there, then just pirate all the games and applications.

I suspect the under the battery thing was for the same reason they usually put the SIM cards under the battery: S60 didn't like its storage changing much and making sure you had a hard reboot was a great way to 'fix' that.

 

[Civillian 18]

Spotify Car Thing
Less of a fail and more of a 'we took it out back and shot it in the head' but still.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Spotify Car Thing

I'm trying to get hold of one of those. You can flash a custom firmware on it and use it as a pretty versatile little doodad.