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"The phone works both ways"
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I find this phrase downright infuriating. In my experience, it's always said by people who never reach out to anyone.
Why am I always the one who has to reach out to others? I fucking swear, my entire family is infected with this mysterious brain illness where they all sit around wondering why nobody calls them but they don't pick up the phone themselves.
God damn these people fucking suck. Why do they suck so bad?
Thank you for listening to my rant today.
Top Comment: translation: the phone works one way
Does anybody know how well nothing phone 2 works on fi?
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Pretty much what the title says. If any of u have the nothing phone 2 on fi I’d like to know how the experience has been so far.
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I have a Nothing Phone 2 on the way, should be here tomorrow. I'll let you know how it goes.
EDIT: Phone will be here today, but I didn't realize it's not eSIM. SIM card ordered! Sorry for the delayed report.
Refused to Connect locally on phone but works everywhere else
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This morning I woke up with all the automations and everything working perfectly fine but Home Assistant won't load on my phone app at all. I disconnected from the wifi and tried over 5g and it worked meaning remote connection was live. I restarted HA and my Wifi Router and still no local connection from my phone, but I could connect locally on every other device. So I logged out from my phone app completely and tried connecting back and this page popped up. What do I do?
Top Comment: A few days ago i had a similar problem, i could not reach HA using a 5G network, but worked just fine using my wifi, and also the wifi from work. I use a cloudflare tunnel, so ive restarted the addon and its been ok since then.
A camera-less iPhone issued to my buddy that works at a Nuclear Plant. No cameras allowed.
Main Post: A camera-less iPhone issued to my buddy that works at a Nuclear Plant. No cameras allowed.
Top Comment: Careful OP, this post is dangerously close to being too interesting. You even provided a cool fact in the title.
CMV: A banana phone only works with the pointy stem to the ear
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In the recent feature for The Observer, Matty Matheson is seen holding his banana phone, IMO, upside-down.
First off, I have to admit that I’ve been talking on a banana phone at least once a week for years (much to the “delight” of friends and family), so I have a certain amount of experience. But I’m definitely willing to hear solid arguments as to why my method is wrong. Does it even function as he’s using it?
And suggesting that stem-to-mouth (phrasing) more closely resembles a hands-free headset is not a compelling argument, as Matty is clearly holding a traditional banana phone receiver.
Edit 1: This has opened up a variety of stimulating conversations. I do feel the crux of the problem may indeed lie in how each of us identifies a “phone.” Though I didn’t really use many traditional, slam down the receiver-style, round earpiece and mouthpiece telephones, I do think that’s still my vision of “telephone.” The idea of the pointy part being an antenna had never occurred to me, nor had I ever considered it a cord. I’ve always poked the stem into my ear because it makes the caller easier to hear. But I’m reconsidering, and will soon award some deltas to several of you for your compelling arguments.
Edit 2: I’m loving the convos, but it’s 3:35 am where I am, and I have to pretend to sleep. I’ll read the rest in the (later) morning!
Edit 3: Thus far we’ve had insight into periods of design, ergonomics, functionality, and the questionable behaviors of chimpanzees. I’ve come to appreciate that, no, Matty is not necessarily holding his banana phone upside down, but that I may be inadvertently demonstrating that I’m, in fact, old (I suppose my crunchy knees have already indicated this, but that’s another story). My banana phone may be outdated, but it still has a certain panache.
It has also been suggested that cashews are the far superior, AirPod equivalent, hands-free device. But who’s going to be sticking random cashews in their ears? What if they get lost? Have you seen the price of cashews?
Top Comment: There are plenty of phone handset designs that have the speaking end thinner. This is likely due to a microphone being able to be smaller than a speaker in most cases. Furthermore the speaker end needs to fit comfortably against the ear which limits its minimum size, but the microphone can be as small as you like. Neither side of the banana is a speaker or microphone, but the banana does have a "right side up". When growing a banana is stem-down, so if there is ambiguity about the "correct" orientation of a banana phone, this is the correct orientation of a banana.
The Huawei mate60 phone still works well at -30 degrees Celsius, and the actual test reduced the power by 24%…
Main Post: The Huawei mate60 phone still works well at -30 degrees Celsius, and the actual test reduced the power by 24%...
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https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1zH4y1Q7Dm/
At -20 degrees Celsius, Huawei detected the temperature and increased the discharge current (from 300ma to 500ma)
Huawei official data
Product working temperature: 0 to 35 degrees Celsius.
Product storage temperature: -20 to 45 degrees Celsius.
Whole machine discharge temperature: -20 to 60 degrees Celsius for discharging, 0 to 50 degrees Celsius for charging.
Lo-Phone color eink phone in the works
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https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/comments/1en53si/introducing_lofone_details_in_comments/
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Neat! I'm curious what they are considering for the price point. I would love to swap to an e-ink dumb phone, but considering most of the options I've seen have been either too dumb for me or cost as much or more than a decent smartphone, it can be hard to justify