Posts by RR1 5 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Oct 2014
I've got a BB Passport and it's honestly the best phone I've ever owned (previously used various BB phones then HTC, Motorola, Samsung and Sony Android now back to BB). It is very big though and it looks like the Classic will address that problem for anyone with smaller hands (though personally I'd miss the huge screen and touch keyboard of the Passport). I'm quietly hopeful that these will be successful enough for Google to finally release some apps for BB10 (Drive and Hangouts would be nice).
At the maximum theoretical speed I could use all of my 4GB allowance in less than 2.5 minutes (unless I've done my maths wrong). I don't understand why they think people would be impressed by huge speeds if you can't actually use it. This being the reason that my main contract is with Three on an old contract that included unlimited data and unlimited tethering. (In Vodafone's defence though they've got a lot more 4G coverage than Three and are, as they so heavily limit the use of their network, much quicker).
I can't comment with any confidence on the American position but in the UK simple "inequality of bargaining power" is not a reason to set aside the terms of a contract. There are high standards of protection in business to consumer sales in the UK but for b2b contracts it's not quite the case of "you agreed to it, your bound by it" but it's pretty close, the law doesn't protect you simply because it was dumb to agree to something. This said, the position in UK law and possibly the position in the USA is that if any of the clauses about breach amount to a "penalty clause" (where the penalty is so big it's just designed to scare you and isn't a reasonable pre-estimate of loss) then they would be unenforceable - but that's about the clause not about the relative strength of the parties.
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