throbber Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 1 minute ago, Kennboy1978 said: As I said I am the last person you would ask ! Nah you make a good argument but i found it obvious back in the 00's that phones weren't the finished article but now i think they are and can't see what can be added to them to make them any better. I think what the likes of apple want is for your phone to have absolutely everything on it, they will eventually want your i phone be used to lock and unlock your front door. The entire apple pay thing is just nonsense, is taking out your wallet and paying with a bank card really that much of an inconvenience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Iphone 6, that looks like a painter's radio (because it sort of is). I've had iphones since about 3rd version and never had much desire to change. They just work so intuitively. Used to love my Bosch: And my Nokia 6310: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 My first phone was a Mitsubishi Trim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE KING Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 41 minutes ago, Bobby Skidmarks said: i won't buy direct from China though as I've never had a CCJ and don't need to. Bought mine here in the UK, plenty of outlets sell them, but it f you want to pay three times as much for a phone with the exact same specs, ..it's your cash! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 iPhone 6s, decent enough phone but the battery is complete w**k. Had iPhones for years now, can't see me changing anytime soon out of convenience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennboy1978 Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Nah you make a good argument but i found it obvious back in the 00's that phones weren't the finished article but now i think they are and can't see what can be added to them to make them any better. I think what the likes of apple want is for your phone to have absolutely everything on it, they will eventually want your i phone be used to lock and unlock your front door. The entire apple pay thing is just nonsense, is taking out your wallet and paying with a bank card really that much of an inconvenience? Totally agree. Whilst it's great when it works, if you rely on one object to do everything - you're asking for trouble.The sealed battery and no SD card support has put me off getting a new phone on contract. Both are essential for me and will be looking into the Umi / Chinese phones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE KING Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 16 minutes ago, Kennboy1978 said: Totally agree. Whilst it's great when it works, if you rely on one object to do everything - you're asking for trouble. The sealed battery and no SD card support has put me off getting a new phone on contract. Both are essential for me and will be looking into the Umi / Chinese phones. This is what you call a battery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Back in the BT Cellnet days, I had a phone that could actually send texts (although the display was tiny) AND had some sort of horoscope thing which would give you marks out of 5 for how lucky you would be in love, weatlh etc for that particular day, based on the date and your DoB. Cracking phone ... wish I could remember what it was called. Edit: Found it. It was this bad boy with its totally pointless flip device. Unbelievably, for its age, it also had internet. For only 10p a minute, it was apparently possible to get "porn" appear on this bad-boy, although I find that hard to believe given that it couldn't even display more than 2 lines of text. Also found this slightly amusing article reminiscing about old mobiles... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/how-phones-changed-the-world/first-smartphones/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locheedfcno1 Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 Back in the BT Cellnet days, I had a phone that could actually send texts (although the display was tiny) AND had some sort of horoscope thing which would give you marks out of 5 for how lucky you would be in love, weatlh etc for that particular day, based on the date and your DoB. Cracking phone ... wish I could remember what it was called. Edit: Found it. It was this bad boy with its totally pointless flip device. Unbelievably, for its age, it also had internet. For only 10p a minute, it was apparently possible to get "porn" appear on this bad-boy, although I find that hard to believe given that it couldn't even display more than 2 lines of text. Also found this slightly amusing article reminiscing about old mobiles...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/how-phones-changed-the-world/first-smartphones/ My big brother had a bt cell net back in the day. Remember him saying you could do something dodgy to it to get free credit? Do you remember that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 2 minutes ago, locheedfcno1 said: My big brother had a bt cell net back in the day. Remember him saying you could do something dodgy to it to get free credit? Do you remember that? I certainly don't but I'd have loved to. The cost of the phone was negligible compared to the cost of credit. Does anyone remember a news story from recently that was explaining how some old mobile (might have been a Nokia) were changing hands for tens of thousands of pounds on eBay. The reason was that due to a flaw in the system, criminal gangs could "change" the phone number, which meant that you could get anyone's banking password delivered directly to the phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black and White Tragic Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 I'm still on my iphone 5c, off contract now obvz, so it's £8 a month. Still have no idea what it can do fully but I'm blissful in my smart phone ignorance. Grimbo I thought a Galaxy Note 7 would be more your style? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennboy1978 Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 This is what you call a battery An original battery no less, I bet that had the counterfeiters stumped. Exactly the type of phone I'm after though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennboy1978 Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 My big brother had a bt cell net back in the day. Remember him saying you could do something dodgy to it to get free credit? Do you remember that? Yes it was the Philips one I'm sure It was chipped, so when the phone was power cycled it brought the credit back to £20. Almost right, £10. Taken from another forum........ Unlike all other prepay phones, the record of how much credit you had was stored locally in the phones own memory, and when you made a call it would send that info back to Cellnet. The hack was a simple 12C509 PIC chip flashed with a hex code that reset the balance to £10 whenever you powered the phone off and on again. Think the hack lasted a long time too, from what I can recall in order to stop it Cellnet would have had to bar all those Philips handsets from their network which would have been a PR disaster as they'd sold tens of thousands of them before the hack appeared. My one lasted for months and months, I think after a while they started to put epoxy resin on the pads on the board where you had to solder the chip, but that just made it a bit trickier to fit rather than impossible. I think in the end they did work out a way to recognise the modified phones on their network and block them all but yeah - the hack lasted a long time and must have cost them a ton of money... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim O'Grady Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 15 minutes ago, Black and White Tragic said: I thought a Galaxy Note 7 would be more your style? why's that? Grimbo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locheedfcno1 Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 Yes it was the Philips one I'm sure It was chipped, so when the phone was power cycled it brought the credit back to £20.Almost right, £10. Taken from another forum........Unlike all other prepay phones, the record of how much credit you had was stored locally in the phones own memory, and when you made a call it would send that info back to Cellnet. The hack was a simple 12C509 PIC chip flashed with a hex code that reset the balance to £10 whenever you powered the phone off and on again. Think the hack lasted a long time too, from what I can recall in order to stop it Cellnet would have had to bar all those Philips handsets from their network which would have been a PR disaster as they'd sold tens of thousands of them before the hack appeared.My one lasted for months and months, I think after a while they started to put epoxy resin on the pads on the board where you had to solder the chip, but that just made it a bit trickier to fit rather than impossible. I think in the end they did work out a way to recognise the modified phones on their network and block them all but yeah - the hack lasted a long time and must have cost them a ton of money... That's the phone. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzyBear Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Samsung Galaxy S7. 95% of the time it is a great phone but every now and then it gets a tad warm and the battery drains in about an hour. I can seem a common theme here lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Nooka Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 This was my first phone Bought it from the Provy and paid it up as my mates mum was a Provy lady. Still smaller than the phone I have now tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 5 minutes ago, Tommy Nooka said: This was my first phone Bought it from the Provy and paid it up as my mates mum was a Provy lady. Still smaller than the phone I have now tbh. I think that phone had the bio-horoscope thingmy as well. I know how I lost it. I was visiting my mate down in London and managed to leave it in is house. I asked him to send me the phone back and sent him a fiver to cover postage. Not only did I never see the phone again, he also pocketed the fiver. b*****d. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilostmyself Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 I've got a Samsung Galaxy S5 and I'm coming to the end of my contract, phones good but it's obvious it was built for a 2 year lifecycle which is a pain in the arse. Having the SD card capability is what puts the Android phones above the iPhones for me. Plus you can use the same charger cables as everyone else which is a decent plus too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted October 18, 2016 Share Posted October 18, 2016 Microsoft Lumia 640LTE. Pretty decent. £13 a month from iD which gives me 5000 minutes, 5000 texts and 1MB of data. Can buy another MB of data for £7 each month which I usually do. It's a bit big (didn't realise the size before I got it!) and most apps won't run on it since they're all designed for Android or Apple, but I don't really use many apps anyway. Battery life is pretty decent and the camera is good. I have never and will never have an iPhone. Something about them just seems incredibly wanky. Last phone I had was a Samsung Galaxy Y which was pretty decent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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