Off Topic The Burly Arms

Silence of the lambs stuff?

 

I must be a good egg. Karma and all that.

Just given my neigbour my 3 piece recliner suite...even moved it n for him.

he's like 74, and i even cooked him some scran, and took him desert...strawberry cheesecake ice cream and sticky toffee pudding...

 

Bet you all have a chub on now

 

small little fish?

 

Sorry comm you have lost me here.

Anyway I'm proper clapped out been driving a lot this weekend.

Night all

 

It was a tough choice. I went for pink in the end.

 

Was trying to find the device thread, can't find it, so will post here instead;

Finally invested in a new phone today. I've had my current android from new, about 2 years, the cost was probably somewhere in the region of £600+ at the time.

Anyhow it needed a new battery. Now I've replaced batteries before, in androids and iphones, but this fooker needs stripping down and it includes unsealing the screen to get to it. It basically has to be done professionally for around £70-£80. Plus my mains cable had become shredded. So I thought fook it, no way am I paying £80 for a battery!

@BobbyD planted the seeds of thought when he started chatting about cheaper phones, a while back. Anyway, I spoke to our kid, and recommended one that was only £130, sim free, 64gb...yeah, yeah, I know it's Huawei, but don't care, if it lasts 6 months, I've got my money's worth, compared to paying four times the price for a new top of the range one...

So in summary the options were a fix of my old one £70-80 or £130 notes for this...

Anyway the deed is done, it arrived today, now all set up, pretty impressed so far, only one very minor gripe, why do they make the charging leads so short!

 

I just bought a new phone too funnily enough. 145 quid second hand which is likely the most I've ever spent on a phone. Samsung J6 or something.

Probably break the **** in about a month.

 

I had a samsung before my previous phone, I was pretty impressed with it tbh, and it lasted me years. The good thing back then, the battery was fully accessible. But lesson learned now, I don't see the sense in paying extra bucks, when you can't reasonably access the battery, which is going to be more or less the first thing to go.

 

Yeah this is the first phone I've had where I can't take the back off so we'll see how it goes. I had to get one of those pin things from my nephew to get the sim in.

 

Oh yeah that bloody pin, thankfully I got one with the new phone and fortunately the old and new were also both nano sim. I thought I'd fook about on my old phone first, to remind myself how it comes out, rather than knacker the new one. It actually has a dual sim, but don't really understand what that's about or whether I even really need it.

 

yeah, they've started doing that on all phones where the batterys sealed away. These ****ers want you to be wasteful

 

typically with the dual sim ones, you can either have 2 sim cards (for international travellers) or one of them you can put an sd card instead for additional memory for the people who like to take loads of vids/photos/transfer stuff to new phone/install lots of ****/download lots of pron

 

i have a nokia 6310

well not really, but it;s some chinky cheap ****...

I should replace it, but the hassle of changing all my online banking etc....Plus i don;t actually use my phone that much...

But Huawei probably have the best camera phones on the planet....

 

iPhones are notorious for battery issues. Loads of people bin them off when the battery starts going, but it's fairly easy to change them. Couple of screws at the bottom of the body, take the screen off and voila, there's the battery.

 

Chubby pron ?

 

I've never purchased an iphone, i've always purposely steered clear of Apple products. Yes, you are right the batteries are easy to change, but when they have had history of purposely running their phones down, so cutomers purchase new models it says all you need to know about their market. Yet their excuse was so it prolonged the life was laughable. Anyhow it cost them £21M, then $500M in settlements but this is a Trillion dollar company.

https://sfist.com/2020/02/07/apple-fined-in-the-eu-for-purposely-slowing-down-older-iphones/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-51706635

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42508300

 

The phone does all the swapping of details for you mate, it activates the transfer in the background, so it will carry over all your apps, emails, banking details, photos etc over, it will basically mirror your old phone. That's assuming you currently have a smart phone and storage to sync.

Although you will need to reorganise the apps, but that's just OCD on my part. Also you will need to know or reset all your app log-ins, so yes, that part affects the banking apps.

The latter being the only balls ache part, because I didn't know my sign-ins, I always use fingerprint, but you have to know the access details first, before it lets you set the fingerprint, which it merely collects from your phone activation data, which is one of the first things you set up.

You could just get your nephew or someone young to do it all for you, if you are likely to lob it out the window.

 

yup planned obsolescence.

bullshit innit

 

Or just take it to the Apple shop and get it changed for £24