A few years ago I got an LG Nexus 5X phone through a new Google Fi account.<\/p>\n
The Nexus5X has a camera app that (probably) eats RAM often to the point of crashing the system and\/or killing the two GPS logging apps I always have running. But the camera app does HDR well and has great panorama logic. The camera app pretty much displaced an old Canon A650 IS for my picture taking.<\/p>\n
And then, some months ago, my Nexus 5X went in to the infamous “boot loop”. The Nexus 5X would not boot. After a lot<\/strong> of Google time and whatnot, I bought a Motorola Power G. And found a solid, reliable camera app. That reliably took lousy pictures. Bizarre panoramas. Ugly HDR. Thank God for the decade old, long-in-the-tooth Canon.<\/p>\n Cue the trumpets: A couple of months ago I accidentally found the original Nexus5X box. Which had the phone’s IMEI number. Which allowed me to call LG’s support number. Who told me that LG would fix a boot-loop phone for free. So, that phone call set up an email from LG a couple of weeks later. The email had a FedEx shipping label. Which I drove, with the phone, to the Issaquah FedEx office. And a couple\/three weeks later I got a working Nexus5X.<\/p>\n Early in personal computer history, it was common practice to advertise a product idea as a real product. Enough pre-orders drove the actual product creation and manufacture. Then IBM came out with their PC. The PC was already engineered and shipping. But IBM goofed. All shipped PCs needed a fix. IBM fixed them. IBM ate the cost. That sealed the PC deal. IBM showed that they could be trusted. They stood behind their product. That was a massive change in the personal computer world of the time.<\/p>\n With my Nexus5X, I found LG stands behind their product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few years ago I got an LG Nexus 5X phone through a new Google Fi account. The Nexus5X has a camera app that (probably) eats RAM often to the point of crashing the system and\/or killing the two GPS … Continue reading