I’m gonna pay lots of money just to have it

    • CrackBurger [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      I’m doing a data plan and none of the phone I want are one there. Also I’m stuck with iMessage because of my family so all my contacts are iPhone unfortunately

      • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        There’s plenty of other choices.

        I was very satisfied with my Umidigi back in the day. ISTR it had great band coverage, so it just worked when I went abroad; some phones are very skimpy, like they’ll only get 4G data on one or two carriers or not in some countries. Fall-induced screen damage made it uneconomical to fix so I got a $150 Nokia and said meh It’s enough for Jerboa and a stack of 2FA apps.

        The Oukitel designs with dummy thicc batteries look compelling, but I’m not really in the market.

  • hello_hello [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    “Apple will build a prison so opulent that people will beg to be jailed”
    (Paraphrased) GNU project founder Richard Stallman

    Also you’re buying into the lottery that ur phone wont become e waste due to apple and the people in the global south who made your phone will have to produce another one for you.

    Only libre software and hardware are truly concerned about sustainability and justice because they are ultimately socialist endeavors.

      • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        i was joking. ive had an android of some sort since ‘Donut’. about two years ago I got an iphone because of Covid and my kids.

        Im not going to lie my iphone 12pro max is slick. Its got insane battery life. The photos are great quality. If i start a YT vid on my iphone and switch to my ipad, itll start up where I left off just by opening the app. My airpods follow. Everything is very polished.

        but i miss my fucking back button. I miss rooting my phone. I miss sideloading shit. I miss a hosts file. I use ssh a fair bit to log in remotely to some Pi’s and some thinclients I have at home doing dumb shit and the ssh apps in the app store are trash. It seems like everything costs money. I miss a fucking homescreen and an app drawer. The list could go longer.

        but, i think I use my phone a bit less because despite the polish, i dont really enjoy it, so i guess its a good thing. or maybe i just done really care enough any more. i dunno.

  • bloodfart@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    If you can, get one with the lidar (pro or pro max).

    I wish I had, because you can use it to create very good 3d scans of stuff and then dump em into cad.

    If you can, buy direct from Apple instead of your carrier.

    • CrackBurger [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I’m going to buy it from Apple and pay 50$ a month through financing but the only issue is they ask you to buy from one of three carriers

      And I’m trying to understand what this means. Apple claims the phone are unlocked but why do I have to buy from a carrier? Does this mean I also have to buy one of their plans and I can’t go with any provider I want?

      • bloodfart@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        I was wrong. It used to be a modem choice way back in the day but now they’re mostly the same. “Choose carrier later” is unavailable because you picked financing and the terms of financing require a carrier. If you choose to pay up front then you can pick no carrier and set one up later but it’s $30 more because they do some kind of discount for connecting right then.

      • bloodfart@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Different carriers use different standards, gsm and cdma. You gotta pick the one that has the antennas for the network you wanna use.

        That’s probably old information, I’ll look into it a little more in a second.