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Ashes to Ashes: My V710 Goes Up in Flames

Adam Frucci with video by Richard Blakeley

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As expected, Gizmodo readers are a bunch of pyromaniacs. You voted last week in overwhelming numbers for my cursed Motorola V710 to come to an end in the most fiery way possible, and I am a man of my word. Yesterday afternoon Blakeley and I probably broke some Manhattan fire codes by dousing the phone in lighter fluid and setting it ablaze on the streets of SoHo. The video above really tells the whole story, so sit back, relax, and enjoy the cathartic destruction of a crappy device. See you in hell, V710.

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