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[vampireechidna <vampireechidna@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's very odd, that I read this on the very day I acquire a BQ phone 
myself.
Personally I have been avoiding the BQ due to the way it looks. It's 
not as expensive looking as the Mezui MX4.

Sadly my Mezui MX4 has broken, so I can only replace with a BQ. 
Since using my Mezui, I have become accustomed to Ubuntu's little 
quarks. That going back to an Android phone is not something I'd 
relish. 

So I decided to give the BQ a go.
I'm really surprised at the build quality. It's much more stronger than 
I'd imagined for such a reasonable priced Smartphone. To me it feels 
better quality than the Mezui, which seems to be very fragile. I can't 
seem to find anything wrong with the build or the performance of the 
phone in anyway. I could imagine the phone being thrown at a wall and 
still come away unscathed. 

I'm personally really impressed, considering my prejudices at the start.
Guess we should never judge a book by it's cover or an image from a 
website.



On Fri, 8 Jan, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Gareth France <gareth.france@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Until recently I prided myself on being the only person in the 
> universe who doesn't own a smashed phone. Unfortunately my BQ let me 
> down a few months back and now has a minor crack in the cover glass 
> in an area that doesn't matter, where you can barely see it.
>
> Being a parent with a rather difficult 2 year old (I believe that 
> comes as standard at this age) there are moments when dealing with 
> him eclipses the normal common sense behaviours we all adopt. A 
> perfect example was when I was putting him in his car seat earlier in 
> the week and he was refusing. I needed to put my phone down so it 
> ended up on the car roof. Strapping him in took a while as he is DAMN 
> strong and once done the phone got forgotten about.
>
> I drove off and realised my mistake pretty much right away. Pulled 
> over, no phone, drove back checked the area on foot, no phone. 
> Driving back to where I pulled over I found the phone laid in the 
> road a full 5 inches away from its cover. To my amazement the phone 
> suffered no damage at all from this incident.
>
> I have noticed in the past when dropped the phone breaks apart down 
> the seam, almost like a crumple zone in a car. All you have to do is 
> clip it back together and all is good. These little BQs do seem to 
> perform well above their price point when it comes to taking a 
> bashing.
>
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