I'm glad when a phone breaks. It's an opportunity to study it inside.

Now I have a phone with the broken touch screen. I do not know what to choose:
- to use it as a screen for raspberry pi via USB cable?
or:
- to destroy it and learn something?

 

I have had a simple phone for long time. Just does calls and text also a camera. Since my network upgraded I had to get a new phone and as luck would have it the company I subscribe to actually sent me a simple phone , gratis. It was also just a simple phone but after I managed to sit on it and cracked the screen I had to buy a new one.
I have no liking for the large screen "smart" phones so I found a simple flip phone that does all I want it to and its small and compact enough to slip into a t-shirt pocket and I don't have to worry about the screen getting broken when its closed up.

 

I have a simple, compact phone-with-camera too. If I want 'smarts' I use a laptop or tablet. If I want quality photos I use a dedicated camera.
If evolution is taking us down the path of ever-smaller, ever-thinner phones it won't be long before they're of a size where they can be implanted and linked to the brain! But there's a snag: the government, or ISP or advertisers etc would then be able to control remotely our every action .

 

I like:

I have a simple, compact phone-with-camera too. If I want 'smarts' I use a laptop or tablet. If I want quality photos I use a dedicated camera.

 

I have this smart watch:

Has built-in loudspeaker. You can only call from 2G(most of the cell phone companies).

You can listen to mp3 an its speacker.

You can take a picture.

But it is quite uncomfortable to talk only on the speaker. I would test bluetooth headphones.
You can install programs on the Nucleus system. But there are only very few programs for this watch.

But it has a very strong and "well-conceived" screen. I hit it by mistake several times and he did not break.

EDIT: Black Friday comes this week
EDIT2: Being new I did not have the courage dismatle it. But I really want to see its PCB

 

The only utility was
if someone calls me, it vibrates at my hand and feel easier. (and I write back on facebook)
Then if I put it around my hand, I lose it harder.


I was thinking - if it has bluetooth let's interfere with Arduino HC-05/06

Another mobile madness ......

 

I do ridicule those who spend ungodly amounts of money on those expensive, tiny, low-tech iFruit devices.

 

 

LOL, I want one!

 

I just realized I can take long exposure pics on my S8. 10 seconds max, unfortunately, at ISO 50:

 

I just realized I can take long exposure pics on my S8. 10 seconds max, unfortunately, at ISO 50:

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Wow! ... gonna tell the wife... she'll be interested. Thanks for sharing.

 

I just got a new phone after a near 3 year hiatus of having one. Already hate it.

It's a good-ish phone (12 hour battery life is crap as I see it) but all the nonsense to make it work is really pissing me off.

I have zero justifiable use for it beyond the stupid text message based security crap that online banking requires me to have to which, of course, text messaging doesn't work worth crap on the new phone.

From when I request a security code from my online bank to when the request times out on accepting the code I have about 5 minutes and so far the phone takes 1 - 3 hours for text message to go through because it wont send or receive text messages through the home wifi (everything else works through the wifi though) and only will do it through the cell service connection which doesn't work in my area because of the terrain I live in. The same terrain that is why I don't have a cellphone anymore because they don't work when I am at home.

 

I just got a new phone after a near 3 year hiatus of having one. Already hate it.

It's a good-ish phone (12 hour battery life is crap as I see it) but all the nonsense to make it work is really pissing me off.

I have zero justifiable use for it beyond the stupid text message based security crap that online banking requires me to have to which, of course, text messaging doesn't work worth crap on the new phone.

From when I request a security code from my online bank to when the request times out on accepting the code I have about 5 minutes and so far the phone takes 1 - 3 hours for text message to go through because it wont send or receive text messages through the home wifi (everything else works through the wifi though) and only will do it through the cell service connection which doesn't work in my area because of the terrain I live in. The same terrain that is why I don't have a cellphone anymore because they don't work when I am at home.

Sounds like you need one of these:

 

I just got a new phone after a near 3 year hiatus of having one. Already hate it.

It's a good-ish phone (12 hour battery life is crap as I see it) but all the nonsense to make it work is really pissing me off.

I have zero justifiable use for it beyond the stupid text message based security crap that online banking requires me to have to which, of course, text messaging doesn't work worth crap on the new phone.

From when I request a security code from my online bank to when the request times out on accepting the code I have about 5 minutes and so far the phone takes 1 - 3 hours for text message to go through because it wont send or receive text messages through the home wifi (everything else works through the wifi though) and only will do it through the cell service connection which doesn't work in my area because of the terrain I live in. The same terrain that is why I don't have a cellphone anymore because they don't work when I am at home.

Probably slow because that link between Grand Forks and Minot was never completed and AT&T resorts to other forms of communication...

Like pony express

 

Sounds like you need one of these:

Had one. Sonim military spec phone. It would go for two weeks of normal use between charges but I used it so little I ended the contract and stuffed it in a box some place I have yet to ever find again.

 

Probably slow because that link between Grand Forks and Minot was never completed and AT&T resorts to other forms of communication...

Like pony express

It's not that. It's the stupid separation of certain online functions only working off the cell tower signal, I have little to none of due to my home being behind a hill that's inline with the cell tower for may area, and others working through the home wifi of which the one thing I need the phone for more than anything, text messaging, does not work through home wifi.

I think the phone is going back to the store tomorrow just for that reason. If they can't make it work the way I need it to I have no use for it.

 

Frankly, spending a load of $$$ on a phone is a waste.

I've known quite a few people who ran out and bought an I-Phone from one of Apple's glitzy and expensive flagship stores. However it's a sure bet they're paying more for the ambiance of the store (and the cardboard box) than the phone itself!!!

I bought my first mobile (a Nokia Lumina 975) from an AT&T store for $125 and it does everything I want. I also picked up a rubber cushion case at Walgreens for 75 cents. So there you have it - an economically priced phone with a break resistant case for less than bag of groceries.

 

I just realized I can take long exposure pics on my S8. 10 seconds max, unfortunately, at ISO 50:

Nice shot. The cameras they put on phones continue to amaze me. Why, "unfortunately at ISO 50"? Higher ISO always adds noise. Not a real camera buff here and I hope you don't think I am not relaxed, but take a look here - I found the "triangle" explanation useful.

 

Nice shot. The cameras they put on phones continue to amaze me. Why, "unfortunately at ISO 50"? Higher ISO always adds noise. Not a real camera buff here and I hope you don't think I am not relaxed, but take a look here - I found the "triangle" explanation useful.

The "unfortunately" was for the 10s, not ISO 50. I'd like to have doubled or quadrupled the exposure on that shot.

 

The "unfortunately" was for the 10s, not ISO 50. I'd like to have doubled or quadrupled the exposure on that shot.

Ahh I got ya. Still there is a lot you can do with the 10s - this one was at something around 4s and I was very happy with the softening and blending.



Still waiting to do some lightening.