{"id":650,"date":"2010-03-25T23:49:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=650"},"modified":"2010-03-28T08:10:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T22:10:35","slug":"consumer-reports-mobicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/25\/consumer-reports-mobicity","title":{"rendered":"Consumer reports: Mobicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was looking at what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/22\/python-on-nokias60\">new smartphone<\/a> to get, the cheapest place to get it from seemed to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobicity.com.au\/\">Mobicity<\/a> which seems to be a local shopfront for a Hong Kong warehouse. That there was a discount voucher on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tjoos.com\/\">tjoos<\/a> helped too. Anyway, the price was right and it got here reasonably quickly so it all sounded good.<\/p>\n<p>The other week I put it on to charge overnight and woke up the next morning to find it was dead &#8212; the &#8220;charging&#8221; light would come on, but nothing else would do anything, plugged in or not. It came with a one-year warranty, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aussiewarranty.com.au\/\">Australian Warranty Services<\/a> (who seem to sell warranties for imported phones generally too, maybe), and you fill out a web form to do claims. Despite Mobicity being just a suburb away, I got an email saying that I&#8217;d need to send my phone to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sydneycellular.com.au\/\">Sydney Cellular Repairs<\/a>. As it happened I was going to Sydney for the LA F2F the next weekend so I dropped it off on the way; and at that point things were pretty straightforward: they took the phone, got some receipt number for Mobicity, checked the phone over and a couple of days later I got an email that it was fixed and on the way back to me. And it arrived working, so&#8230; sweet! Cheap and supported. Who knew?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was looking at what new smartphone to get, the cheapest place to get it from seemed to be Mobicity which seems to be a local shopfront for a Hong Kong warehouse. That there was a discount voucher on tjoos helped too. Anyway, the price was right and it got here reasonably quickly so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}