What phone do you own? (if you do)

[LandBoatBuick]

i'm bored.

[cubinator]

A banana phone.

[qzgy]

One that makes telephone calls. 

[StrandedonEarth]

One that phones home...

5 hours ago, cubinator said:

A banana phone.

[Guest]

iPhone =(

RIP Steve Jobs... every successive generation of phone seems worse. Although I have to give them the fact that this gen iPhone is the first I’ve had that doesn’t shatter in a stiff breeze >_<

[YNM]

Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime - yes one of those phone types Samsung makes just like they're selling hotcakes.

I also have a Nokia, but I forgot to top-up the sim card, and now I don't have a number for it...

[kerbiloid]

A gray one on the table and a black one to carry.

[GearsNSuch]

Tin can with string. It has excellent battery life, and service is practically free.

[ARS]

A phone with 3.7 m (12 ft) parabolic, high-gain antenna Deep Space Network transceiver with S-band (13 cm wavelength) and X-band (3.6 cm wavelength) communication

[Geonovast]

9 hours ago, YNM said:

Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime

Same.  Cheap and does what I need it to do.

[Shpaget]

Doogee S60 Lite, which is not even close to light. It's actually a heavyweight at almost 290 g.

The battery does comfortably last for 3 days, which is a plus, but I long for my old Siemens C35 which would get a full week of battery life at a third of mass, and managed phone calls just as well.

There is one annoying bug I've been hunting down ever since I got it though. It sporadically turns off all sounds, including alarms and ringtones. It doesn't lower or mute the volume, it doesn't enter the Do not disturb mod, there is no indication at all, and I'm sure it's not my pocket that's doing it since once it happened while I was putting it on the wireless charger. The first time I placed it a bit off center and it produced a complaining sound, so I removed it and replaced it. It produced no further sound, even though it should have confirmed the placement.

When this happens, the only way I manage to turn on the sound is to reboot the thing. I've tried googling the symptoms I've come across multiple people having same issues with different devices, which leads me to believe that the problem is with Android and not the device itself. Unfortunately I haven't found a solution yet.

[LandBoatBuick]

3 hours ago, ARS said:

A phone with 3.7 m (12 ft) parabolic, high-gain antenna Deep Space Network transceiver with S-band (13 cm wavelength) and X-band (3.6 cm wavelength) communication

Is your grandmother living inside the Voyager Space probe or something?

[Vanamonde]

[StrandedonEarth]

I see Bananamonde is feeling facetious today. 

For the record I own an iPhone SE. It would be nice if these things didn’t cook the battery all the time. Or I just need to play less Candy Crush on it. 

[kerbiloid]

12 hours ago, LandBoatBuick said:

16 hours ago, ARS said:

A phone with 3.7 m (12 ft) parabolic, high-gain antenna Deep Space Network transceiver with S-band (13 cm wavelength) and X-band (3.6 cm wavelength) communication

Is your grandmother living inside the Voyager Space probe or something?

He's just an extraterrestrial secret agent, so he just needs it to communicate with HQ.

[Vanamonde]

Not at all. My telephone is like the one in the pic, except for being brown rather than white. 

[Dafni]

I still have my 13yr old nokia. Changed battery once, lasts all week. Dont like smartphones or mobile internet. No google account or social media.

[kerbiloid]

7 hours ago, Dafni said:

I still have my 13yr old nokia. Changed battery once, lasts all week. Dont like smartphones or mobile internet. No google account or social media.

 

Spoiler

 

[Dafni]

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Not that one, but close call

[LandBoatBuick]

On 7/2/2019 at 3:29 PM, LandBoatBuick said:

i'm bored.

Since people are actually answering, might as well add mine

Mine is a Huawei Pixel 6P. This phone has some bad problems, and not just mine. The phone usually cuts life at 30% to 60%, and bootloops, and it is known for that. The phone itself is good, but you people are lucky to have long batterys.

[StrandedonEarth]

1 hour ago, kerbiloid said:

 

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Apparently most kids these days have no idea how to use a rotary dial phone. I don’t think they’ve been made for decades 

Edited July 4, 2019 by StrandedonEarth

[Geonovast]

8 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said:

Apparently most kids these days have no idea how to use a rotary dial phone. I don’t think they’ve been made for decades 

Rotary dialing apps actually exist.

I bet there's a factory, somewhere, that still manufactures the things.  I mean, there's a factory a few miles from me that still makes cassette tapes.

[razark]

This:

[NSEP]

I have a 4 year old Iphone 5s. I don't use that thing often.

[kerbiloid]

20 minutes ago, StrandedonEarth said:

I don’t think they’ve been made for decades 

Nokia 3605