You still wasted 200 american pesetas lmfao
Why Google's $400 Pixel 3a convinced me to never again buy a $1000 smartphone
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Re: Why Google's $400 Pixel 3a convinced me to never again buy a $1000 smartphone
#52My son wanted a Pixel to replace his iPhone but wouldn't buy one because like Apple it didn't have a headphone jack to enable him to use it in his car for music. He bought a Huawei instead. I am not yet ready to replace my iPhoneSE but I'll be going Android as well - and if Google will provide a headphone jack they are in the running, but ONLY if they provide a headphone jack.
From what I saw, the 3a has a headphone jack.
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#53My issue remains privacy. I can’t help but feel that every swipe and key I type into an Android will be added to some profile on me.
Actually one of the best things about Android is that you can drop all the Google apps. Don't use the default Google keyboard but install your own. Don't want to see ads in YouTube? Get YT Vanced. No ads in apps ever? DNS66. Want the Play Store apps without Google? Yalp.
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#54Hopefully the 4a comes with ip67 or ip68 certification; it’s really the only missing feature from the 3a that gives me pause. I don’t want to have to worry if I walk outside and it is raining, or my phone slips off the bathroom sink edge and ends up under a stream of water.
Agreed. This Pixel 3a could be my next phone if not for the lack of IP67 or IP68.
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#55I've had various iPhones and Androids over the years, most recently iPhone 6s+, 7+ and XR. I just yesterday bought a Oneplus 6T and am very happy with it. I've had the Xr for a few months now and it's been my least favorite iPhone. For me, it's a little heavy compared to even the older pluses. And the display isn't all that much chop for a premium phone. I'm glad it's a work phone, because I don't think I would ever…
I was a happy owner of the OP2, and currently the OP6. I doubt my next phone will be a OnePlus, though. While the OnePlus are great phones, the prices have risen to flagship levels over the years. The new OP 7 Pro starts at $669, a far cry from the $299 of the original OP One.
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They did get into his phone
> They did get into his phone I'm not a hacker, But I am a skeptic; wouldn't it behoove the Gov't to just pretend they had to pay a private hacker a boatload of greenbacks to crack an Iphone? I mean, that's the smart play, no?
What would they stand to gain from that? They had to use a 0day on it, they would never use that on the general public.
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#57Re: Why Google's $400 Pixel 3a convinced me to never again buy a $1000 smartphone
#58My issue remains privacy. I can’t help but feel that every swipe and key I type into an Android will be added to some profile on me.
Try GrapheneOS (https://grapheneos.org)
Support for Pixel 3a and 3a XL will be added soon.
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> They did get into his phone I'm not a hacker, But I am a skeptic; wouldn't it behoove the Gov't to just pretend they had to pay a private hacker a boatload of greenbacks to crack an Iphone? I mean, that's the smart play, no?
What would they stand to gain from that? They had to use a 0day on it, they would never use that on the general public.
> What would they stand to gain from that? They had to use a 0day on it, they would never use that on the general public.
Again that would be the beauty of it. If they did have to use a hack Apple didn't know about. We don't really know how they cracked it--only what "they said". Maybe it was a Day Zero, maybe it wasn't. If the NSA has access to Everthing that Everyone does online, (and Yes I do know that E2EE is unbreakable, but were Apple engineers using that to communicate?); its possible they know as much, if not more more, about the architecture than Apple does. Have you seen the size of their data centers, and the extremes they go to for spying on us.
And speaking of Gov't State sponsored crackers: here's a nice litte article about one of our (The USA's) allies [1] who break iOS, allegedly--When Ever They Want To, not a Five Eyes Nation but still a close ally.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pajkkz/its-almost-impossi...
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You may already know about this since it comes up a lot on HN but I am keeping an eye on https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ development for this reason.
While this is great, I'd rather have a cheaper phone, less than $150. Not to brag but I'm dying for a low end open smartphone, with the same concept of the raspberry pi.
Until last year, I was buying refurbished S5's on Amazon for that price. Unfortunately, the set of apps I run finally bogged that phone down.