This makes me deeply deeply uncomfortable.

I look forward to the class action when a telecom provider cancels service or denies fraud claims after this exploit feature is used.

Got the email today

If it wasn't a poorly cutout hunk of cardboard with a picture of a number pad on it missing 3, 7, and 0, then it wasn't worse than expected.

all along.

In then end trump made money of his haters.

Oh wow. If I see one in the wild I'll have a hard time not to laugh at the owner's face.

No, tRump Dissapointmemt Syndrome. 8:30 in the video.

Maybe this was crooked Hillary's plot.

Worth the watch, even if you already know about this debacle. The iPhone Duo video was interesting too.

Awesome

Spitting more fire than his lighter test

Can't possibly be.

I thoroughly enjoyed that teardown of Trump......'s phone.

these actually shipped??? I thought joe biden and the democrats kept them from shipping due to the machinations of hunter biden in conjunction with obama and carters ghost.

This phone teardown is less about the phone, but more about a litany of offenses Trump and his allies have committed against the world. Nearly 10 minutes of tearing into Trump harder than he tore into that phone.

Pretty much exactly what we thought. But I realize that doesn't make for very good click bait title.

Even better. You supply the phone, they pay for the plan. No more thought involved.

The company has a standing contract with am operator and they pay in bulk several numbers; we don't get an added value to our paychecks.

The company can give me the SIM and pay the bill but I control what phone I use.

Is it a monthly stipend? If so, and it's enough to pay for a decent plan, then IMO that is a fair alternative.

I wholly agree with you about not using personal devices for work. I've had a work-issued phone for almost 15 years in varying forms. I set up an automation to turn on DND mode 5 minutes after my shift ends.

What I would do is find an older iPhone, like a 15 or something, and use that for your work device. My current work device is an iPhone 17e, and I just got it like a month ago from our IT dept to replace my aging-but-still-perfectly-functional iPhone 12.

Idk. All I got is two people who said they own a Pixel 8/9. But I don't think that's Lemmy's obsession with expensive phones... It's more due to the amount of computer nerds here. A Google Pixel combined with GrapheneOS used to be popular amongst that kind of people. Because it was one of the select few options to get rid of a good amount of all the spying and tracking by Google. In the future we'll get the cooperation with Motorola. Maybe that's going to provide us with more options. But they said "high-end smartphones" so it probably means just more expensive phones.

You do you. Just pick whatever phone satisfies your requirements and you'll be fine. I usually pay something like 250-330€ for my phones and they last me about 5 years. I think that's an acceptable price. But I wouldn't pay that much for an additional phone, either.

(And by the way, a flagship phone is like 1000 bucks these days. Crazy pile of money for something like a phone, if you ask me.)

Where I currently work they aren't the worst but they don't give phones easily to employees.

I've had one but the thing - and I nearly coddled it - simply malfunctioned and it took nearly three months to be replaced. Then we all had our phones recalled in order to have the service provider renew the fleet; the brass got theirs quickly enough but not the grunts.

I regularly have to check aerial photos and read documents and maps when I'm working. My coworker gladly uses his phone for work but I refuse. I will not mix private life and work. Hence my option to get a cheap phone. The company can give me the SIM and pay the bill but I control what phone I use.

I'm used to bottom shelf phones.

Again, risking sounding as obnoxious, it gets me a bit miffed with the near obcession, when discussing smartphones in Lemmy, regardless of the community, with recommending flagship models or otherwise at least quite expensive ones, stating that anything else is garbage. I'm not shooting full lenght movies or taking the next prize winning wildlife photo with my phone.

My current personal phone is a Blackview BV5300+. It cost me less than 150€ and it gets the job done. Before that, I had an Oukitel WP8 Pro, another excelent phone, for less than 175€. Loaded with FOSS applications, they go the extra lenght, something I fear I won't be able to do as easily with Google twisting the screws on Android. It is said you spend a little more to save a little more but this isn't the case. I only need a basic phone and the hability to keep loading the applications I want and use on it.

Not really very interesting. Got new job. On 1st day of job they tell me I have to download a bunch of apps. I said my phone is Degoogled and their apps won't run on my phone so they'll have to get me another one. And they did.