{"id":353243,"date":"2010-02-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=13651"},"modified":"2010-02-23T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:00:00","slug":"how-to-add-a-lanyard-strap-to-your-htc-hd2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/353243","title":{"rendered":"How to add a lanyard strap to your HTC HD2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13651\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13651&amp;source=WMPoweruser&amp;style=normal&amp;service=bit.ly\" height=\"61\" width=\"51\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"630\" height=\"505\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yL3owsWT3E4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"630\" height=\"505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yL3owsWT3E4&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=htc-leo\" >HTC HD2<\/a> is not a small device, and we have seen many examples of the screen being destroyed after being dropped, including the phone owned by our editor l3v5y, which cost him \u00a3150 to repair.<\/p>\n<p>HTC in their wisdom however decided not to include a lanyard strap hook in their device most likely to be dropped.\u00a0 Barring a case, that leaves the smartphone forever vulnerable to falling when in use, especially if one attempts one-handed usage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yL3owsWT3E4\" >BiffsterX<\/a> has decided to take matters into his own hands by recording this small how-to video which shows how to add a simple lanyard to the device.\u00a0 Of course this approach is not close to as strong or reliable as a real lanyard hook, but might just save your device and wallet in a pinch.<\/p>\n<p>Do our readers have any more creative solutions?\u00a0 Let us know below.<\/p>\n<p>By special request, BiffsterX performed a stress test, which can be viewed after the break.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-13651\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"630\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/r-J855DnJ_M&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/r-J855DnJ_M&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"630\" height=\"505\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HTC HD2 is not a small device, and we have seen many examples of the screen being destroyed after being dropped, including the phone owned by our editor l3v5y, which cost him \u00a3150 to repair. HTC in their wisdom however decided not to include a lanyard strap hook in their device most likely to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}