Yeah this was like 8 years ago when i switched. I was wondering why i would ever spend 600 quid on a phone ever again. Not that you deliberately damage it but they are pretty sturdy and tbh even when you drop it, it's like well its only a couple of hundred quid. The game changer for me was the battery power. I surf the internet a lot outside and travelling to and from work, it was a pain having it drop down low after a few hours and thinking i need to stop using it to conserve my battery in case i need it for an emergency. No need to worry about that now really
They're all Chinese phones though... even if they're not a Chinese brand. Are any of them made anywhere else? And if they are, how many of the components came from China. I've always had good luck with Motorola phones. Motorola, of course, has been Chinese for a while now. I've never spent more than $250 for a phone... no clue what the exchange rate is at the moment- guess from out my arse is that's about £200-£225 these days. Never buy the latest and greatest- but always one generation back. It's worked well for me doing that. EDIT: so I was curious so I did a google. There are a few phones sonys, samsungs, and lgs (until they folded) which actually assemble outside China. Big surprise to me is that most Motorolas (despite being chinese brand) are actually made in India.
Honor was the best phone I ever had, and I spent some serious money on previous phones, it made me ask the question why! It was Bobby that guided me to the Chinese brand and I'm glad I listened to his advice. The battery has been the big plus, much longer lasting than any other battery I've had. The picture quality is as good as any other phone I've had, even if it is not the top spec. The only irritant was the talk / voice thing on it, that takes over your phone, but I found a guide on youtube that helped me disable it. To think I paid absolute buttons for it is amazing.
Sad story. Glad it looks like he’s going to be able to come home. A British man who killed his seriously ill wife at their home in Cyprus has been convicted of manslaughter. David Hunter, 76, was tried for murder but was cleared after suffocating 74-year-old Janice Hunter at their home near Paphos in December 2021. The retired miner from Ashington, Northumberland, maintained her death was assisted suicide and his wife, who had blood cancer, had begged him to end her misery. He will be sentenced on 27 July. Hunter's lawyer argued the death was assisted suicide because Mrs Hunter was suffering and she asked him to do it. Three judges at the district court in Paphos on Friday found him not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter. He hugged his legal team and told the BBC he was "happy and elated" after the verdict was given. His lawyer Michael Polak, from Justice Abroad, said the verdict meant there was a "very good chance" of his client receiving a suspended sentence and being able to return to the UK to live with his daughter. "This wasn't a pre-planned act," Mr Polak said. "He acted on the spur of the moment because she was in so much pain and kept asking him to help end her life." In May, Hunter told the trial his wife begged him for five or six weeks to end her suffering. He broke down in tears as he told the court he would "never in a million years" have taken her life unless she had asked him to. "She wasn't just my wife, she was my best friend," he said, adding her pleas became more intense each day. He eventually relented and suffocated her after she became "hysterical", he said, adding: "I was hoping she would change her mind. I loved her so much." He then tried and failed to take his own life, the court heard. Hunter told reporters his time in a Cypriot prison was "nothing" compared to the last six months of his wife's life. Speaking in June 2022, the couple's daughter, Lesley Cawthorne, told the BBC her mother had been "in absolute agony" in her final months. Barry Kent, a friend of Hunter's who has raised thousands of pounds from people in Ashington to help fund legal costs, was in court when the verdict was delivered and he was said he was "relieved".
This Nazi regime has gotta be toppled …..real Jews got a real fight on thy hands https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66258416
Rapey pigs at it again https://news.sky.com/story/stripped...saulted-by-greater-manchester-police-12924141 I’m tellin ya…they need hanging
Story on the Beeb today about a guy who has been found innocent after doing a 20 year stretch for rape. Greater Manc Police. No forensic evidence, he was the wrong height and looked nothing like the e-fit. Grim.
Wtf ……..climate madness……this guy wears magic underwear and should be listened to because he’s isn’t bonkers honest https://climate.news/2023-05-25-john-kerry-farmers-stop-food-net-zero.html# knickers to that
shocking really. and then the jury convicted him. State of our democracy bring in communism. I'd rather xi determine my sentence than 12 matths
Did jury service when I was about 23. There was a girl there younger than me who we had to explain everything to and they weren’t complex cases. Quite scary really.
I did jury service a couple of years ago and the only case I was assigned to was a child abuse case, we were warned the evidence was so horrific we would be offered counselling if required We had to walk past the defendants to leave the court room and I was in front of the line of jurors and I eyeballed then from start to finish with my best death stare, I was advised I should not have done that but the following morning the trial was cancelled because they pleaded guilty
