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Furia posted:I have considered checking out ubuntu phone or mobile or whatever it’s called how sad am I going to be afterwards? us suicide hotline 1-800-784-2433 
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indigi posted:is Huawei any good. it has a cool looking name, but, I've never seen anyone talk about their products ever, and, have never heard the word spoken out loud. I could see it being either hoo-a-why (or way) or wah-why (or way) huawei phones have very good build quality. emui is mediocre, but so is stock android and who cares. their native apps range from functional but ugly to sloppy, just like every other android device. good camera quality the yellow scare is based on "well, what if they were spying?!" and the amazon blu phones that were spying on people, which were all devices that had been diverted to an ad company that flashed custom firmware to read texts and contacts, presumably for advertising but possibly at the direction of mss for some nefarious purpose like, there's no evidence suggesting huawei participated in the blu phone scheme, and even if they had it would be par for the course in android land. their real sin is making last year's iphones and galaxies for $250-500 this year
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Sep 29, 2018 13:07
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Furia posted:I have considered checking out ubuntu phone or mobile or whatever it’s called how sad am I going to be afterwards? it's dead isn't it? i figure the biggest issue with an oss phone is that pretty much all commercial hardware runs on socs which require a bunch of incompatible handholding, extremely fragile firmware setups, and generally paying the manufacturer cash money to have working properly. a bit pre-pc home computer era, but there is no real sign that it'll ever standardize itself
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Sep 29, 2018 13:20
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angry_keebler posted:huawei phones have very good build quality. emui is mediocre, but so is stock android and who cares. their native apps range from functional but ugly to sloppy, just like every other android device. good camera quality source your quotes, I want to read more hilarious opinions like this
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Sep 29, 2018 14:53
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they probably weren't wholesale lifting your contacts and data, but if they were it would be fine because everyone including google is doing that anyway - an argument in favour of android
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Sep 29, 2018 15:03
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it's garbage that runs like rear end and can at best be described as sloppy - your mother or emui?
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Sep 29, 2018 15:04
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infernal machines posted:they probably weren't wholesale lifting your contacts and data, but if they were it would be fine because everyone including google is doing that anyway they were doing it, but there’s no evidence they did it on behalf of the Chinese government. I’m sure they wouldn’t sell that data to just anyone with money and authoritarian power over them. - a person defending a company blocked by the NSA from providing equipment for critical communication infrastructure in the US
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Sep 29, 2018 15:15
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The Management posted:they were doing it, but there’s no evidence they did it on behalf of the Chinese government. I’m sure they wouldn’t sell that data to just anyone with money and authoritarian power over them. blu and huawei are two different companies, huawei didn't do any of that poo poo, hth
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Sep 29, 2018 16:02
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Blue Train posted:blu and huawei are two different companies, huawei didn't do any of that poo poo, hth they did however have deals in place for att and verizon to sell their phones when the us government stepped in and told them that they couldnt do that which seems p. damning to me
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Sep 29, 2018 16:10
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i bought a huawei phone from a tmobile store years ago, what are you talking about e: never mind i see the news about it Lutha Mahtin fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Sep 29, 2018 |
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Sep 29, 2018 16:13
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/business/att-huawei-mate-smartphone.html https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16950122/verizon-refuses-huawei-phone-att-espionage-cybersecurity-fears man that was some hard googling
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Sep 29, 2018 16:14
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huawei is also a large producer of cell tower equipment, competing with Ericsson, Nokia, and Qualcomm. their equipment is pretty much banned in North America.
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Sep 29, 2018 16:29
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Furia posted:I have considered checking out ubuntu phone or mobile or whatever it’s called how sad am I going to be afterwards? isn't that stuff dead?
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Sep 29, 2018 16:33
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The Management posted:source your quotes, I want to read more hilarious opinions like this there used to be an entire chinese android thread that was just posts like this of people defending their spyware purchase because it was $50 cheaper than something that doesn't immediately offload all your data.
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Sep 29, 2018 16:40
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LastInLine posted:they did however have deals in place for att and verizon to sell their phones when the us government stepped in and told them that they couldnt do that which seems p. damning to me indicative of the need for protectionism of inferior american products that can't compete on price. there was never any proof of any allegations by the government
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Sep 29, 2018 17:05
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what American products? there are none
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Sep 29, 2018 17:16
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Sep 29, 2018 18:00
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i wish i had one of those. i have an htc magic, which is the second android phone ever sold. i got it because all-touchscreen was cooler in 2008 than one with a keyboard, like a fuckin blackberry or something. but these days it would be fun to say yeah, i have the very first android phone ever made.
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Sep 29, 2018 18:07
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or, as i might put it, “patient zero”.
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Sep 29, 2018 18:09
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Sagebrush posted:i got it because all-touchscreen was cooler in 2008 than one with a keyboard, like a fuckin blackberry or something. yes, iPhones were cooler than androids in 2008, just like in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018
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Sep 29, 2018 18:15
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Sagebrush posted:i wish i had one of those. i have an htc magic, which is the second android phone ever sold. i got it because all-touchscreen was cooler in 2008 than one with a keyboard, like a fuckin blackberry or something. but these days it would be fun to say yeah, i have the very first android phone ever made. hm yes "fun" is definitely how i would describe owning a bad phone
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Sep 29, 2018 18:20
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Ubuntu touch is still being “community developed” I just don’t use my phone much but would use it more if it was an actual computer so figured why not? I have an old iphone which is fine but variety is the spice of life or some poo poo I dunno
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Sep 29, 2018 18:50
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Furia posted:Ubuntu touch is still being “community developed” the point of using a phone is to use the apps to do things. if you want a computer buy a computer.
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Sep 29, 2018 19:05
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Furia posted:Ubuntu touch is still being “community developed” are you really gonna try this? i don't know anything about it but it sounds painful actually... i have one of the supported devices lying around somewhere. i might try it if i ever need a silly weekend project lol
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Sep 29, 2018 19:17
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also, phones are computers. ios and anroid now both have official file browser apps. dehumanize yourself and face to /
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Sep 29, 2018 19:19
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President Beep posted:or, as i might put it, patient zero. you should finish all of sagebrush's posts from now on
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Sep 29, 2018 20:42
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Lutha Mahtin posted:are you really gonna try this? i don't know anything about it but it sounds painful I’d be thrilled to hear the trip report honestly. It’s just that no app really does anything I am actually interested in (some ganes yeah but whatever) and a mini computer for some tasks would be nice So yeah go for it + let know
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Sep 29, 2018 20:48
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akadajet posted:you should finish all of sagebrush's posts from now on *cues odd couple theme music*
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Sep 29, 2018 20:53
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im actually fond of sagebrush but our posting styles are very different.
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Sep 29, 2018 20:54
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The Management posted:they were doing it, but there’s no evidence they did it on behalf of the Chinese government. I’m sure they wouldn’t sell that data to just anyone with money and authoritarian power over them. no one should buy any android device if they are concerned with privacy or security but pretending huawei is somehow worse than sarnsung is laughable. the big concern is, what if huawei's device encryption eventually actually works? we have direct sweetheart deals with the koreans to compel sarnsung's cooperation, and if apple talks a good privacy game, they are still an american company and can be compelled by secret order to cooperate but when jim from the office and detective moreland breathlessly shout about a ticking clock terror plot the guy on the other end of the phone from huawei will say "嗯...太可惜了" before the camera whip pans to reveal the huawei customer support office is actually in a dingy warehouse filled with chinese terrorists packing machineguns into wood crates stamped with "B A B Y T O Y B E S T N U M B E R O N E S H I P T O U.S.A."
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Sep 29, 2018 21:08
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Endless Mike posted:what
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angry_keebler posted:no one should buy any android device if they are concerned with privacy or security i feel like you're getting a little off brand here.
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Sep 29, 2018 21:59
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a few months ago i was on a high alpine pasture where vehicles were prohibited as indicated by several signs on the road up. just minutes after a local told us stories about idiot tourists blindly following their gps and getting stuck up there we saw a car coming across the field, seemingly lost. when we spoke to the driver of the car he turned out to be the head marketing representative for huawai in that area that's my huawai story
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Sep 29, 2018 22:11
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hypothetically, wouldn't you turn around when you ran out of road?
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Sep 29, 2018 22:12
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huawei takes the road less traveled by, and it makes all the difference
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Sep 29, 2018 22:18
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Lutha Mahtin posted:also, phones are computers. ios and anroid now both have official file browser apps. dehumanize yourself and face to / i will face / and walk backwards into hell
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Last Chance posted:isn't that stuff dead? that which is a weird linux distro can never die Furia posted:Ubuntu touch is still being “community developed”
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Sep 30, 2018 14:29
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yes, you can run a beardo os on your four year old cell phone. as a hobby project, i guess you could do worse. but assuming you own a telephone for some other reason, like using it as a phone, it doesn't seem like a great idea.
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one point for huawei: i use a b525 4g router as my primary internet access, and that thing is actually great low on features, but very fast, works great, gets excellent signal. probably the first time ive *liked* a router
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