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Pill Cosby

Pill Cosby

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Just listened to the recent show. Our dear leader was moaning about a phone. I would advise on buying a Nokia Android phone. Why?
  • Cheap
  • Stock android
  • No Facebook + other malware. + non default google software (give or take).
  • Software updates after they leave the factory in China.
  • Mine was duel sim
I'm not telling people what to buy but it's stock Android, no shitty third party crap you can't uninstall unless you root the device. Anyway I'm a retard on the internet.
 
Got a moto g7 power, but I got it at verizon becauae I was told it was too hard to put in the sim card yourself with an unlocked phone. Worst phone purchase I've ever done. Well, not the phone anyways.
 
If someone is that concerned about security or compromised development I'd say get a cheap Pixel and install GrapheneOS, Ubuntu Touch, Lineage or some other more minor mobile OS on it instead. I'm sure there's a few Nokia lines that are compatible with those releases but it's not worth the shot in the dark (or loss in hardware quality) to stick with that instead of something that's all but guaranteed to have proper support. For what it's worth I've had a great experience with mine and can vouch for their security.
 
GHTD said:
Pretty sure Moto phones are fairly close to, if not stock Android. At least the last Moto phone I had was.
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I've had three modernish moto phones. My current one's a moto. I appreciate the lack of preinstalled bullshit and overall, for the price, the decent quality of the phones.

I do remember my pre android Nokia phone though. It was a decent little phone. It had a slide up touchscreen with a physical numpad. It ran some version of symbian. It had more features than that generation of iPhone. That thing lasted me longer than any phone I bought after that. Eventually something fucked up with the screen though. The touch stopped working and everything turned red. By the time that thing died I think androids were onto version 2.4 or something android didn't even exist when I bought it originally.
 
I had no idea Nokia was still making phones. Is it still the same company or just some Chinese company that bought the name and shoves them on some dirt cheap off brand phones?
 
I currently have one. Last years model I think, can't remember the name. Haven't had any issues at all with it, it just seems to be a pretty solid phone.
Honestly I only got it because everyone I know has Samsung and Apple and I wanted to be different (so edgy, so dumb, I know) but I don't regret it at all.
 
*blocks you're path*

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Modern Nokia phones are okay, I guess. They're not my go-to option for a cheap or midrange phone. Some of their feature phones are expensive for what they do.
 
Whatever phone you buy make sure it has proper custom ROM support, specially of the not-google kind, the ones that come without their glownigger "services" and with microG

And as always sandbox everything and use a proper VPN

At this point the amount of resources glowies have to invest to track you are absurd and they wont even bother..........unless you are an actual fucking threat in which case you should go completely unabomber-level before they ship you to guantanamo with all the homo marines who will destroy your bussy

But odds are the moment they realize you're a paranoid nobody they wont even bother, let alone companies like meta which can, at best, make like $14 from whoring your data
 
One of my recent phones was a Nokia Android phone and I started having issues with it very quickly. It was shipped with a version of Android where they promised "guaranteed updates" for for several years, but what they meant by that was that you'd sometimes get updates, they'd typically slow down the phone and be full of bugs and they would never patch the performance issues or bugs.
By the end of my first year with the phone it was so slow from the updates that it would lag just trying to type a text, the phone was borderline unusable. Eventually the phone started suffering from touch-input issues and I just returned it.

Piece of crap.
 
I've been hearing Alex Jones shilling hard for satphones. I think they might be affordable in a year or two if we keep taking our collodial silver.
 
I mean yeah, my Nokia tires and boots have held up well all these years and offered unprecedented grip on even difficult conditions. For a phone, nobody cares, I'll just use whatever company provided personal tracker is forced on me.
 
Spicey McHaggis said:
I had no idea Nokia was still making phones. Is it still the same company or just some Chinese company that bought the name and shoves them on some dirt cheap off brand phones?
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Yes, it was bought by some chink company, but their phones are part of Android One program, if I remember correctly, so there should at least be clean system and some quality control from Google. I do wish they've never sold out to Microsoft and kept pushing Maemo, N9/N900 were the coolest.
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Fxtec is nice, but goes for almost a grand while phones with comparable hardware sans the keyboard are half the price. And they've also pulled the shared SD/SIM slot shit, not even fixing it in Pro1 X.
 
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Don Yagon said:
Yes, it was bought by some chink company, but their phones are part of Androd One program, if I remember correctly, so there should at least be clean system and some quality control from Google. I do wish they've never sold out to Microsoft and kept pushing Maemo, N9/N900 were the coolest.
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HMD Global is registered to Finland (but manufacturing is done in China). And as a fun insider fact, the Nokia managers were sending each others stuff like pictures of burning oil rigs with Nokia logo shopped to the tower towards the end. Also after the crash that happened to phone operations (mind you, there are still stuff like Nokia networks, which is atm doing fine since they're one company that isn't Chinese that can offer 5G networks to different parties). there also was a common joke "what does nokia engineer say to another? two cheese burgers, fries and cola to the drive through"
 
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