Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016) • Hacker News Board

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by jessaustin » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 1:53 PM UTC

101km wrote: post #54

lightbyte wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also 4-6x the price of the Jelly/Jelly Pro. I don't think that's worth it.

The Jelly is $100, the iPhone SE is $350. You can also pretty easily resell the iPhone after two years to recapture at least a third of the MSRP.

One can't imagine any "used" market for this other sort of phone...

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by eli » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 1:55 PM UTC

lightbyte wrote: post #59

101km wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Jelly is $100, the iPhone SE is $350. You can also pretty easily resell the iPhone after two years to recapture at least a third of the MSRP.

Whoops, you're right on the price. I was looking at the pre-order price. The used iPhone market is really that strong?

Much stronger than any other brand: https://swappa.com/sell/iphones

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by TremendousJudge » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 1:55 PM UTC

Clubber wrote: post #38

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #30

It must be pretty easy to block communications in a prison? Presumably it's a bit of a game, they want the prisoners communicating so they can track it??

I would think it would require a faraday cage around the prison.

Or just tell the carriers not to accept connections coming from inside the prisons

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by TallGuyShort » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

Clubber wrote: post #38

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #30

It must be pretty easy to block communications in a prison? Presumably it's a bit of a game, they want the prisoners communicating so they can track it??

I would think it would require a faraday cage around the prison.

But it'll end up being an active jamming system sold by a sibling-in-law of the politician who proposes the measure that causes interference and other safety issues and is easily subverted instead.

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by jlgaddis » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 1:58 PM UTC

lightbyte wrote: post #59

101km wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Jelly is $100, the iPhone SE is $350. You can also pretty easily resell the iPhone after two years to recapture at least a third of the MSRP.

Whoops, you're right on the price. I was looking at the pre-order price. The used iPhone market is really that strong?

It sure is. There are plenty of people who want an iPhone but can't afford and/or simply don't need/want the latest, greatest version (being able to run 11.0.1 isn't really a big concern for most of them). A good friend of mine just upgraded to an iPhone 4 a few months ago.

Pretty much all Apple products have excellent resale value (around here, anyways).

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by peeters » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 2:00 PM UTC

mrmondo wrote: post #2

I ordered a jelly which I believe currently holds the title of the worlds smallest smartphone, it arrived today and damn that thing is tiny! I don’t have any intention of putting it in my bum but if that was your aim - it’d certainly get you tweeting from jail in no time. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/jelly-the-sm...

> 16 GB ROM

Why do they make such an effort to advertise memory that is useless to the end-user?

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by jlgaddis » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 2:03 PM UTC

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #30

It must be pretty easy to block communications in a prison? Presumably it's a bit of a game, they want the prisoners communicating so they can track it??

In ths U.S., at least, it is illegal to block/interfere with cellular transmissions -- even for prisons (there are employees and visitors with cell phones, nearby homes, etc.).

I recall reading an article about how one prison in particular was using DF equipment to track down phones since they couldn't block them.

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by rjsw » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 2:04 PM UTC

peeters wrote: post #66

mrmondo wrote: post #2

I ordered a jelly which I believe currently holds the title of the worlds smallest smartphone, it arrived today and damn that thing is tiny! I don’t have any intention of putting it in my bum but if that was your aim - it’d certainly get you tweeting from jail in no time. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/jelly-the-sm...

> 16 GB ROM Why do they make such an effort to advertise memory that is useless to the end-user?

They mean Flash, nobody is going to make 16GB of mask programmed ROM.

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by tlrobinson » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 2:05 PM UTC

TremendousJudge wrote: post #63

Clubber wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would think it would require a faraday cage around the prison.

Or just tell the carriers not to accept connections coming from inside the prisons

Carriers can't pinpoint the location of calls (unless the phone provides the location, e.x. E911)

Re: Tiny Phones That Go Inside a Butt (2016)

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Post by peeters » Mon, Oct 02, 2017, 2:06 PM UTC

rjsw wrote: post #68

peeters wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 16 GB ROM Why do they make such an effort to advertise memory that is useless to the end-user?

They mean Flash, nobody is going to make 16GB of mask programmed ROM.

Yeah that was tongue in cheek, I'd assume they're talking about flash storage too. But still to check, I looked at two different reviews of the thing and they also said 8/16 GB ROM. I assume that says more about the knowledge or effort of the reviewers though.