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This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry (lifehacker.com)
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[–] 88 points 9 months ago (13 children)

this device is designed to be your secondary smartphone

In this economy?

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    lol imagine having two phones, takes years to save up just to buy one!

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Have you tried being rich? I highly recommend it.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Could also try being frugal, there are plenty of smart phones for 200-300$ that will do everything your $1200 iPhone will do with a longer battery life. Most people I know spend more on a phone annually than I spend on my last car! And no u don't need a new phone every year or two. Currently typing from my Moto G I got for 200$ new.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I don't buy a new phone more often than probably one every five or six, so I don't really mind buying an expensive flagship.

    The problem tends to be though that people buy an expensive phone and then later have financial difficulties. And people criticise them for having an expensive phone as if they could have known that that would be an issue a year or so down the line.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    The other part of the equation here is not every body has 200$ to buy a cash phone, but these days you have to have a phone. So if ur poor what do you do? Spend 200$ you don't have on a cheap phone or walk out of verizon for 0$ with a brand new iPhone that retails for 1400$ but only cost u an extra 20$ a month for the rest of your life? It's the same reason a lot of poor people buy new Nissans (read about how they made money on subprime loans if ur interested) and it brings into perspective how expensive it is to be poor!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Legit sound advice, I use the cheaper android phones so I never spend more than £120 on one. Only issue I ever have is the lacking RAM, otherwise they're great.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    In 2017 I bought a refurbished lenovo p2 for 300 that lasted me until 2024. Out of boredom, non because i needed it to change, i bought a refurbished s20 ultra for 350, still my daily driver.

    No one is forcing anyone to buy a top gamma phone every year for 1400€

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That's their marketing pitch but it has every feature you'd need to make it your only phone, which is my plan.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    It's such a weird marketing pitch though...

    Can Communicator be used as my primary phone? Yes! Absolutely. Communicator is a fully standalone smartphone that runs Android 16, with all the apps, 5G connectivity and Wi-fi. We think many people will use this as their primary phone while others will use it as a complement to a flagship iPhone, Galaxy, Pixel, etc.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    Maybe a way for them to be able to say one day: "yes, it's not selling in big numbers, but we aren't competing against the others anyway, ours is a second phone, so it's not a failure!" I mean, I don't even know if that makes sense, but it's the only spin I can give to it.

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