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My phone got unusable today. After two years of accumulating cracks on the glass surface. Last week a car drove over it and improved the cracks to a finer mesh structure on the buttons below the screen. It kept working fine, minor cutting hazards only. The LCD finally gave in today when I carried something heavy down the stairs and the display got punctured
TRWTF is Samsung for selling phones with weak screens obviously.
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Maybe you should stop getting smartphones and get a Nokia 3310.
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, do you try and make a point of abusing your phone in every possible manner?
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get a Nokia 3310
That might be difficult, depending on weapon laws in @gleemonk's area...
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Nope, TRWTF is you for breaking your phone. I have no idea how people manage to do that. Do you not buy sleeves/cases for your phones?
Edit: Apparently, mobile is a to not getting 'd
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Do you not buy sleeves/cases for your phones?
Why would anyone do that? Modern smartphones are too large and akward to hold/use as they are now. Why would you go for an additional akwardness?
I'd rather my phone broke than have to deal with stupid cases and stuff like that on a daily basis.
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Do you not buy sleeves/cases for your phones?
I don't, and I don't break my phone, either.
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I don't use phone cases, and have rarely broken a phone. They survive the occasional drop, and are more likely to get damaged by being in the same pocket as my keys
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more likely to get damaged by being in the same pocket as my keys
, why would you do that? you have more than one pocket...
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Do you not buy sleeves/cases for your phones?
When I bought my S5 I bought the official Samsung flip cover case. Which, thanks to how it's designed, came off when I dropped the phone leaving the unprotected phone minus the back to hit the ground. It was promptly replaced with a less shit one.
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Any that doesn't look like bulky, ugly, impractical bullshit? I'm in mobile right now, so I CBA to google a photo of mine.
Also, the post you replied to was missing a fishing rod ;)
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why would you do that?
I don't, usually, but sometimes when I'm pocketing one or the other in a hurry I just stick it in one at random
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I respect your opinion, but you're wrong
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I respect your opinion, but you're wrong
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I just remembered to buy one!
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Also, the post you replied to was missing a fishing rod
What do you mean?
Any that doesn't look like bulky, ugly, impractical bullshit?
I found that any additional level of "bulkiness" is too much, TBH. But the worst thing I've ever seen were those rubber cases that were sold for iPhone 4 and 4S. I mean, those were the shitties idea ever. THE SHITTIEST!
I mean, come on!
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and get a Nokia 3310.
I would never buy a Nokia dumbphone. My first cell phone was Ericsson and I can't compromise like that. Usability is shit on Nokia.
, do you try and make a point of abusing your phone in every possible manner?
Not on purpose no, BUT ON PRINCIPLE
Do you not buy sleeves/cases for your phones?
It had an encasement when I got it, similar to this
That encasement was gradually chipped away by wear and tear until I had to discard it because it didn't hold to the phone anymore. Then last year the phone slipped out of my pocket during a bicycle ride. I got it back but the cleaning crew who happened to find it hadn't discovered the parted back-cover. Since that mishap the innards were held-in by tape. The phone got slimmer that way too
...perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away...
By the words of Antoine, my phone was PERFECT.
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Them's fighting words in some circles!
Thems bring it on! I used a Nokia for a day in 2003 and it was the worst experience with phones I ever had.
Also it'd survive you owning it.
Would it survive my rage?!
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I used a Nokia for a day in 2003 and it was the worst experience with phones I ever had.
- That was 2003.
- You were if it was hard to use.
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and are more likely to get damaged by being in the same pocket as my keys
The first of my smartphones had a badly scratched screen because of that. I have adjusted my habits to have keys and phones in separate pockets. (Just so people don't think I don't respect my phones.)
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Thems bring it on!
When did I say I am the one that would fight you?
Siemens forever! ... until they went to shit and consequently stopped making phones ...
Ericsson forever! ... until they partnered with Sony ...
Sony Ericsson forever! ... until Ericsson went out of that market ...Ok fuck it, I give up!
Filed under: Maybe I should start buying stuff from brands that suck so I can rid the world of them?
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Moto forever: until the remaining good stuff from them being owned by Google fades and they become fully Lenovo
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- That was 2003.
- You were if it was hard to use.
How dare you challenge my finely tuned rejection of Nokia? The Nokia phone I used had a central button that sometimes meant CONFIRM and sometimes CANCEL. That was enough for me.
When did I say I am the one that would fight you?
You didn't. And them came
Sony Ericsson forever!
I... I tried.
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the remaining good stuff from them being owned by Google
Even if Google's only legacy was to stop Motorola from writing their own software, the world is much better off.
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My first phone was a motorola. It had three separate batteries that looked like AAs but were slightly bigger, no vibrate function, no games and no clock. If I desperately needed to know the time I had to spend 10p to send myself an SMS.
It's amazing how far the tech has come from that to a Moto X that responds to me saying "lets ask the batphone"
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I used a Nokia for a day
So you are judging multiple ranges of vastly different phones over multiple generations on the premises of using a single phone on a single day?
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The Nokia phone I used had a central button that sometimes meant CONFIRM and sometimes CANCEL.
There's a certain phone today that only has one button that does arguably the most useless thing imaginable and is apparently the best thing since sliced bacon
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I found that any additional level of "bulkiness" is too much, TBH.
Then buy a leather sleeve that you can close. It's not bulky, it protects the phone (especially if it drops out of your pocket) and it's not in your way when you're actually using your phone. Mine saved my screen about 50 times.
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Siemens forever!
My first cell phone, 2003, was a Siemens, and it was a lot nicer than the Nokias I had later.
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Siemens […] Nokia
I still have both my old Siemens phone and my old Nokia. They have been in the drawer for years, but I want to be prepared for WW III.
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@gleemonk said:
I used a Nokia for a day
So you are judging multiple ranges of vastly different phones over multiple generations on the premises of using a single phone on a single day?
Yes?
Well I actually used an N900 for more than a year and was happy with it. But we're talking about dumbphones. The N900 is hardly a good representative for Nokia phones.
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Maybe I should start buying stuff from brands that suck so I can rid the world of them?
Filed Under: Samsung
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@gleemonk said:
The Nokia phone I used had a central button that sometimes meant CONFIRM and sometimes CANCEL.
There's a certain phone today that only has one button that does arguably the most useless thing imaginable and is apparently the best thing since sliced bacon
At least the semantics of that button are clear: "Don't touch me if you're doing something!" Whereas the Nokiadumbbutton was "Press me after reading what is written above me and make sure you wait to account for lag".
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Were you using Discourse?
No joke, Discourse managed to crash my phone a few days back.
Filed under: But I still keep using it on mobile for some unknown reason...
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@Tsaukpaetra Is Doing It Wrong™
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The Nokia phone I used had a central button that sometimes meant CONFIRM and sometimes CANCEL.
Like how the red cancel/end-call button is not only the power off, but also the power on button on feature phones? Because that's much more intuitive than the green go/call button be power on...
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The LCD finally gave in today when I carried something heavy down the stairs and the display got punctured
This is precisely what extended warranties are for. With most appliances, they are a waste of money, but for portable devices with screens, they are a necessity.
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Because that's much more intuitive than the green go/call button be power on...
Well, it is. How many devices have different buttons for "power on" and "power off"?
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This is precisely what extended warranties are for.
Since when did these cover "my phone was dropped repeatedly and then run over by a car and then had something heavy shoved into the screen"?
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How many devices have different
buttonsswitchesfor "power on" and "power off"?
FTFY. Who uses a button to determine the powered state of their devices?
Filed under: Leakage currents