Converting to Dumb Phone

Just give up cellphones altogether

>>62364261
I tried this.
It is retarded.
Still having signal/telegram to be in contact with important persons is nice.
also for train times n shit.
Just get a new number, tell nobody and just hand it to important people. This did the trick for me.
Also do not install any unnessesary bloat

>>62364272
Not ideal with wife and baby :/

>>62364291
>Just get a new number, tell nobody and just hand it to important people.
And that's how I ended up with an empty contact list.

>>62364334
Lmao story of my life

>>62364261
Kyocera makes an awesome basic phone. I recently got rid of my android for a kyocera flip phone. Battery lasts 2 weeks on a charge :D

>>62364261
Switching to dumbphones works when you have nothing going on in your life
Try running a business these days without a smartphone, it's damn near impossible and every time you're away from emails and group voice calls is money lost

>>62365045
I use a Nokia 101 mainly to deter myself from distractions and normally I get online at night, check mails, messenger and whatnot and it works well.
I'm a university student tho, will getting a decent job put some breaks on this idea?

File: 2f7.jpg (28KB, 601x508px) Image search: [Google]

28KB, 601x508px

>>62364334
>>62364386

>>62365622
Yes. Suppose you're a member of a project and someone sends you an email about it and needs something done and responded to as soon as possible. If it's some code are you going to say that over a phone call or text it bit by bit?

>>62365820
>sends you an email about it and needs something done and responded to as soon as possible. If it's some code are you going to say that over a phone call or text it bit by bit?

While I'm not into programming and such that argument still stands. Thanks man, I guess I'll enjoy pseudo-anonymity while it lasts!

>>62365045
>business
so which are you, drug dealer or prostitute?

>>62364291
>Just get a new number, tell nobody and just hand it to important people.
people still use the call feature on their pocket pc?

>>62366318
Both. People pay to me shoot them up with brown sugar and I let them dry fuck my asshole

>>62364709
>I recently got rid of my android for a kyocera flip phone.
what model fam

>>62364261
Just buy a damn old Nokia and get over with it.
You guys are idiots, nobody cares about your bitch or needs a smartphone that bad.

>>62365045
this is how you get burnout, being availability all the time kills your productivity in the long run

>>62365820
i wouldn't use a smartphone for that either, if it's something small and really important i would dictate it over the phone but everything else can wait until i get access to a proper computer

>>62366687
Tell that to the CEOs of the world
>need to secure a $7 million deal with a company in Japan
>need to be available at 3 in the morning whenever they want to call
>Otherwise they'll fuck off to a competitor who's more than willing to pick up the pieces
It's also why you rarely see women in these positions, they stop in their early 30s to have kids and figure there's no point in living that kind of life when your husband already does it and makes enough money for the both of you

Of course this applies to small and medium businesses as well. I guess the only jobs where you can get away with dumbphones are the ones where you're not paid enough to care about what happens outside of your work hours

>>62365045
That sounds terrible. Why would you want to live a life like that?

>>62366526
DuraXA. that's CDMA but there is a GSM version as well

>>62366574
You realize those won't be able to connect to modern cell phone network without 3G right?

>>62366766
Iunno money? You could argue that more money doesn't make you happier past $70k a year, but the middle class is shrinking and job security is less and less likely

>>62366787
But what are you even going to use the money for? You have no time.

File: 11c851570504483160a86b09f4ad6e819497006a589c120aa629dc693e4278b6.jpg (32KB, 419x396px) Image search: [Google]

32KB, 419x396px

>>62364303
pretend more faggot

Get one of those old people phones with the big buttons.

>>62364303
>someone on /g/ with a wife and baby
gtfo larper

>>62366803
>pay off your debts
>live in a well constructed home on a nice plot of land that'll last generations
>invest in other properties and businesses
>put your kids through good schooling
>train them well so when they're old enough they can inherit your wealth and continue growing it
>retire and live comfortably instead of in a retirement home filled with elder abuse or an LA storm drain because there's not enough money for pensions to go around
This is what people mean by "the rich get richer"

People have this misconception that the boss man is some mustache twirling villain smoking fat Cubans while his employees are groveling in his filth. The reality is employers are working on and off the clock at all time to keep the business healthy while providing payment and benefits for employees
All of that money reinvested over years and decades expands the business and creates more jobs for more people

>>62366899
How are you going to raise your kids well if you're working all the time? Even if you had kids at 30 you'd be at least 55 when they are old enough to not be total retards. If you're lucky you'll die at 70 from all the stress you've built up from working so hard. That's 15 years you'll get to actually live your life.

>>62367027
That's why a lot of high income families have stay at home moms
And the older you get and the more mature your business is you can afford to take time off every now and then

>die from stress at 70
That's not how it works

>>62366442
No, but they do invite you into unnecessary whatsapp group to post funnny xD pictures

>>62366767
>DuraXA
Well certainly not what I expected. Looks bulky.

What do you think about the newly released Torque X01? Worth getting over Duraxa?

>>62364261
I want a dumbphone with a physical keyboard but also whatsapp and messenger.

>>62367217
Ehh forget about it. Seems like Kyocera doesn't sell a single one of their feature phone models in Europe.
That sucks

>>62367217
It's built like a tank, but surprisingly comfy to use with lots of nice features like microsd slot and 5mp camera. I can't speak to other phones, but I'm happy with my kyocera.

>>62367260
You can buy them cheap on ebay and ship overseas. They have quadband GSM so should work on any network.

>>62366699
This.
You get maximim frustration because your phone OS is shit which is not made for all that stuff. That's why I always carry an old and trusty MB Air.

>>62367060
>That's not how it works
of course, there is no such thing as death by stress.
but you will die of a number of other illnesses that are made far more probable by stress

>>62367646
People with money can afford quality health care

Look at Trump, he's the older US president ever and looks younger than Reagan ever did

>>62364261
Just kill yourself and you won't have anything to worry about

>>62366757
Don't pretend you're some kind of billionaire CEO who needs to be available at a moment's notice.

>>62367950
>y-your a poorfag too!
You sure showed him

>>62367798
if you get to that level sure but do you actually believe that his live is stressful?
He has reached the point where he is so rich that he doesn't have to care about being available nonstop because people want to make business with him not the other way round
this same thing goes for all the big companies like google microshit etc, but if you are a small to midsize company you will never reach this kind of earnings

>>62364261
I used a Samsung Rugby III for a while. It was ok.

>>62368216
Of course his life is stressful, he turned a couple million into $3 billion. And he's the president of the US now on top of that
Businesses don't just run themselves

File: nokia c2-01.jpg (50KB, 576x768px) Image search: [Google]

50KB, 576x768px

>>62364261
>>62366767
>3G
See pic related. My 3G UTMS Nokia dumb phone from 2010.

>>62368460
I severely doubt that, now the presidency i give you but his businesses run themselves do you actually think that he is doing most of the work? he puts someone in place and then makes the important decisions if necessary he is long past the time where he actually has to participate in the active running of the businesses, which anyways would be impossible considering how many he has

>>62368557
Board meetings nigga, especially with multiple ventures all over the world. It's why he has his own 757, so he can actually fly cross continent and across the Atlantic for meetings on a moment's notice

Versus rappers who blow their net worth on smaller private jets to fly from NYC to LA to show off to other nigs

>>62364261
no, all in the spec. You will love your battery life. Sometimes I wish I had a camera on mine, but no biggie and I can only block 10 numbers for whatever reason.
People will always ask about your patrician taste in phones if they happen to see you use it.

>>62367950
if you are /g/ probably you are 5 mins from a PC you can use and online most of the time anyway

>>62368511
What model is that?

>>62368740
And if you need to answer things quickly while on the road you're gonna have a laptop anyway. Phone is too small to get anything done efficiently.

>>62364261
Evidently you have no life or work.
No need to use calendar, or google keep, no need to have a contact list always up to date. No need to be able to literally stop your car and work on a document....

>>62364261
Nothing really. Just get a cheap one with 4G capabilities.
>>62366687
>>62366757
>>62367950
There's two different kinds of jobs, working with people and working with things. When you work with things, you need focus and flow, free from distraction. When you're working with people, you need to maximize your time and jump around as much as possible.

I.e Manager vs Developer time schedules, a la Paul "Manchild" Graham

>>62368942
>No need to use calendar, or google keep
You know, there's this great thing called a notebook, they even have pocket versions too. All work great offline

>no need to have a contact list always up to date
A dumb phone has contact lists as well

>No need to be able to literally stop your car and work on a document....
Laptop can easily do that with a WWAN card, probably more efficiently than your """smart""" phone

>>62368771
Cant you read? C2

>>62365820
Can you not get a dumbphone with email but no browsers or appstores? Then you could hop on a computer if your coworkers email you something important.

>>62369101
Oh, didn't notice that, sorry

>>62369115
Yes, lots of dumb phones have email and browsers included (although they're more costly than the basic burner dumb phones).

>>62369092
You don't seem to realize that everything is synchronized. You meet 10 people in 1 day, you have to write down their contacts once, and then it's DONE, forever, on all your devices.

Probably you don't have to meet 10 new people every day in your life, probably you don't have to take 10 appointments every day. But for busy people (which is almost the entire population) that's a major factor.
Probably you don't have the responsibility to replay to all the incoming emails as they arrive. Which is exactly what i stated: Evidently you have no life and no job.

>>62369184
>If you're not officecuck you're unemployed loser

>>62369115
>>62369144
Modern day dumbphones cost as much as cheap Android phones

Just don't use the app store, it's not that hard

>>62369200
Officuck can do everything from their computers in their cubicle\office. That's exactly not the case.

>>62369092
>just carry around all of these things that do the same thing as a smart phone which can fit in your pocket

This is how I know you don't leave your mom's basement

File: TheDude_WhiteRussian.jpg (51KB, 600x346px) Image search: [Google]

51KB, 600x346px

>>62369184
>You don't seem to realize that everything is synchronized. You meet 10 people in 1 day, you have to write down their contacts once, and then it's DONE, forever, on all your devices.
Laptops can sync just as easy as a phone. Especially thinkpad tablets like say X220T, much more comfy than a """smart""" phone and probably more productive, since that seems to be your only focus

>Probably you don't have to meet 10 new people every day in your life, probably you don't have to take 10 appointments every day. But for busy people (which is almost the entire population) that's a major factor.
>Probably you don't have the responsibility to replay to all the incoming emails as they arrive. Which is exactly what i stated: Evidently you have no life and no job.
Nice ad hominem attack. I actually have a job as a data analyst. Anyways, I couldn't imagine being that busy that I have 10 appointments a day, do ppl actually live like that? I just kinda do my own zen thing and chill and get my work done. No hassles.

>>62369246
>Just don't use the app store, it's not that hard
I don't want to use a proprietary operating system on a device I own.

>>62369258
ThinkPad X220T is like carrying a tablet around. It's not much difference.

>>62369092
>>62369301
>let me just carrying around a fucking laptop everywhere I go and bust it out whenever I need to make a note or update contact information
Or just be a normal fucking human being and exchange contact information through NFC, takes like half a second

>>62369331
>I don't want to use a proprietary operating system on a device I own.
So don't. Use AOSP

>ThinkPad X220T is like carrying a tablet around. It's not much difference.
Not even remotely the same you dumb freetard

>>62369336
>NFC
Enjoy your botnet faggot.

>"With software there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power." -- rms

File: 1450641966263.jpg (214KB, 675x900px) Image search: [Google]

214KB, 675x900px

>>62369368
kys you homeless freetard

>>62369301
>Nice ad hominem attack

Argumentum ad hominem, which in this situation literally is: replying to a thread about OP personal condition, opened with OP personal statements about OP view of his own things.
You should connect your brain and realize that every reply to this post is "ad hominem".

Do what you want. Keep living an unscheduled life. Good for you that you can open your laptop whenever you want or need and sit and use it. Have it. Or that you don't have to in the first place. But this proves absolutely nothing about the quality or usefulness of smartphones, it's entirely an argument ad personam: yours.

>>62364261
Don't buy one with rubber keys. You will regret how mushy they feel. That's pretty much the only thing to consider.

>>62369402
Epic comeback dude, you must be really smart

>>62369509
Smarter than the freetard who refuses to live in reality

>>62369524
I live in reality just fine. You're the one who refuses to accept why we need free and open source software that respects our freedom, privacy, and basic human rights. I urge you to reconsider your position before it's too late.

Anyone who willingly carries a tracking microphone on them is a dumbass. No amount of money is worth being surveilled.

>>62369557
Fuck off Stallman, go get a real job

>>62369562
But anon do you have something to hide :^)

File: 23432346678.gif (214KB, 499x368px) Image search: [Google]

214KB, 499x368px

>>62369579

>government finds my encrypted .txt file with the names of all my crushes

>office drones try to convince the whole planet that you absolutely need a fucking smart device to even breathe
lmao

File: Samsung-Galaxy-Folder-2.jpg (204KB, 900x450px) Image search: [Google]

204KB, 900x450px

>>62364261

Just get android filphone.

It'll not be comfy enough for time wasting yet you'll still have access to services like maps, im, and mail needed for normal functional life.

>>62369668
Still a botnet

>>62369652
t. basement dweller

>>62369686
t. office shitter

get a more interesting job fam and I can guarantee you'll have no fucking use whatsoever for anything but a feature phone

>>62369686
t. CIAnigger

File: reality.jpg (248KB, 1326x687px) Image search: [Google]

248KB, 1326x687px

>>62368639
>Trump's second-hand 727 is for board meetings
>Jay-z's gulfstream is only for showing off to other nogs
breitbart subscriber detected

>>62369743
t. butthurt SJW

>>62369734
>implying I work at an office
So what do you do for a living? And no, shitposting on 4chan isn't a real job

>>62369775
>And no, shitposting on 4chan isn't a real job
Love how you insist on projecting your own failures onto people you don't know.

I'm a physician and work in an ambulance team.

>>62369818
>Physician
>works in an ambulance team
If you're going to make up stories at least get your facts right

File: lyl.jpg (33KB, 372x314px) Image search: [Google]

33KB, 372x314px

>>62369837
Nice to know you never left the shithole you live in, just proves your "business" and "muh smartphone for werk" is just a made up bullshit to feel better about wasting times poking at your dumbass electronic widget.
Here we have ambulance teams with 3 paramedics or ambulance teams with a physician and 2 paramedics. HEMS crew is usually 1 pilot and 2 physicians. We don't have "EMT's" here either, paramedics are all university trained people.

Like I said - get a more interesting job, you will like it.

>>62369775

>not working with your hands
>not having technology as only a hobby
>not getting tan and swole from all the labor

cuck

>>62369919
So where is here? Because I've worked in US hospitals for the past 5 years and have yet to hear about physicians in an ambulance.

Are you implying that paramedics are physicians? Or are you just a moron?

ITT Subhuman smartphone addicts attempt to argue that their addiction to the botnet is necessary.

File: mfw americans.jpg (40KB, 453x500px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 453x500px

>>62369944
>it's an american thinks america = the whole planet episode

File: drone.jpg (8KB, 198x117px) Image search: [Google]

8KB, 198x117px

>>62369947
Please don't go. The drones need you.

>>62369963
>He lives in a third world shithole

Dumbphone = hipster poser
AOSP = what people think dumbphone is for
No phone = actually cares about freedom

File: nice meme.gif (3MB, 420x300px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 420x300px

>>62369984
>get fucking told like the obese manchild you are
>b-b-b-b-b-ut shithole

File: 1504338357835.jpg (161KB, 558x529px) Image search: [Google]

161KB, 558x529px

>>62369963
>It's a non-American posting on an American website implying America isn't the country that the whole world and its standards revolve around.

I'm a lowly peasant doing back-office work a cross-border project management company. And when I say at, I mean I work from home. Since I'm not a basement dweller neckbeard still living with my parents, I've got shit to do that entails leaving my home.

I am responsible for a large chunk of the internal communication between project partners. Multi-million € projects literally stall by the amount of time it takes me to translate correspondence between the partners in either of 3 languages. If I get a fucking translation job, I need to know about it immediately. The botnet is my friend.

Sorry if your NEET freecuck neckbeard mindset can't compute all of the above. Even if you have a job, you probably get paid less than me for more work.

File: 1504284836632.jpg (53KB, 539x960px) Image search: [Google]

53KB, 539x960px

Did the same last year after the same epiphany. Here's my experience;
>got incredibly used to the convenience not just of mapping, but of over-head & street views of destinations (as well as landmarks along the way)
Can still read a map, but shit
>nice to keep work & personal life consolidated yet separate on the go (email for work w/out having to drop phone#)
>internet in your pocket
C'mon...even with a phone book, if you're used to having it on hand, its hard to go without
>cameras on smartphones are 1000x better than on the dumbs
Plus video
>apps (I'm looking at you, weather/radio to name two)
Plus wether you like it or not, people are going to judge you for not having what's deemed as "basic" modern technology at the ready. If I didn't have to deal with people so much I might have been able to pull it off, but if you're at all accustomed to having "the world at your fingertips" it's going to be a tough haul back to the good ol' days, friend.

If you make it with success, post in the future with tips on how. I'd love to lose this thing, but I just don't feel like I can.

>>62370062
>world revolves around America
>Not Japan
Lol.

File: uk-galaxy-ace-s5830-gt-s5830okaxeu-001-front.jpg (58KB, 802x615px) Image search: [Google]

58KB, 802x615px

I have had this shitty samcuck phone for about 6 years now. Cant wait for it to finaly die so I can get a dumbphone again.

>>62369668
Where can I buy this? Looks neat.

>>62370072
>I need to be immediately cucked out of any time I have to myself because any moment I breathe belongs to my employer
I'm trying to imagine being this poor and hard-up, but it escapes me.

>>62365045
Business ran just fine before the advent of the smartphone.

However, if you MUST have your emails get a feature phone with pop/imap/exchange support. No need to go full-on smartphone.

>>62370118
Businesses also ran just fine before emails, and computers, and the telephone, and electricity

>>62370072
>I'm a slave
>Sorry if you non slaves don't understand how good of a slave I am
FTFY

>>62370072
So you need a smartphone to send SMS?

>>62370118
It's about efficiency you dumb nigger. If you can't keep up you'll be dropped for a competitor that can

>>62370114
>>62370139
t. the unemployed

>>62370072
>>62370082
Shit, didn't even mention translation services. If you perform at all across borders, a smartphone is a requirement.
>the botnet is my friend

Well said. She makes me a lot of money.

>>62370150
T. Slave

>>62370150
>you have to be literally on-call 24/7 with a smartphone to be employed
wew lad, how fucking bad is it in your shit country?

>>62364261
You want to fight against the modernity...
Try to use an Xperia that would fit as dumb phone for me, or if you want something more modern try some series of Nokia.

>>62370164
Being on call 24/7 also means you get paid 24/7
Literally get paid to sleep

>>62370114
>>62370139
Yea, I knew you couldn't grasp the concept. Let me tell you how it goes for real:

>I can be playing vidya for 2 days in a row without getting any work, and still get paid for those 2 days
>I can be camping and fishing for a week and still get my job done on my smartphone, all I need is a fucking 3g signal

>>62370153
Yep, a lot

>>62370195
>i can do all my work from a smartphone
I believe you.

>>62370114
My goal is to retire comfortably with years left of good health to enjoy it. Yes, I'm selling a part of my soul in the interim, but I feel it'll be worth it
>plus two college tuitions/1st cars/1st apartments/grandkids to think about too

If that's not in your future then god bless ya, but it's already in mine, & I need to fund it properly.

>>62370195
I can play games sleep and eat pizza delivered straight to my door 24 hours a day and YOU pay for it. Thanks. I even get myself a prostitute once in a while

>>62370226
It's translation mong. It's reading english and typing what I'm reading in let's say german. It's like chatting. Can't you chat on your phone?

>>62370195
Well you're in a better place than I am, friend. Like I said, post how you do it.

>>62370259
And you need a smartphone for that?

>>62370259
>im fluent in many languages
>i need to rely on google translate
>i need a smartphone for SMS messages
wow really got my noggin joggin

>>62370259
What's the reason for traveling. You could do that in your basement like the neet you so despise.

>>62369467
>Keep living an unscheduled life.
I can manage my schedule just fine without a smartphone, and I did it for years before smartphones existed. Maybe this is just a crutch for low IQ individuals such as yourself?

>>62370292
Who the fuck said anything about google translate? You think it's a reliable service for any kind of official correspondence? Fucking armchair expert right here.

>>62370345
So you admit the smartphone is totally irrelevant to your work then?

>>62370292
I'm fluent in 1, proficient in 3. Yes, I rely on technology to fill in the gaps.

>>62370351
What do you use to get mail notifications when you are on foot in the city to get shit done like buying groceries you fucking retard?!

>>62370062
>an American website
l m o a
ameridelusions

>>62370382
>you can only use email on smartphone
dude what?

Why wtf if the point

>>62370280
Use smartphone, get mail synced, if new mail arrives I reply or forward in desired target language, if there's an attachment I load it in polaris office, translate, forward.

No big deal. A phone allows me to be wherever the fuck I want to be while being able to do my work.

>>62370438
We aren't speaking the same language, go away.

>>62370382
I get mail notifications on my dumb phone. You can easily do this in Gmail or Outlook, you fucking retard.

>>62370479
Not when you aren't NEAR A COMPUTER YOU FUCKING RETARD!

File: 20170911_123751.jpg (2MB, 3264x1836px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 3264x1836px

>>62365045

>>62370118 (my other post for reference)

I run an IT consulting business from home with clients across the country. I ran my business with pic related phone (Samsung T401g). Prepaid joint, $25/mo for 1000 minutes (no rollover) from Net10. My wife decided she wanted a smartphone again anfter 2 years of using these phones and got new android phones for all of us. I find now that I waste more time on the phone answering stupid shit than doing actual work because I'm now more accessible. One client thought it would be great to give me a company email address and have me install the Outlook app to access it. Now he sends me stupid ass emails all day long. A second one asks me the most insanely basic questions on Hangouts now.

I genuinely want to go back to something like what I had or maybe a feature phone with a slightly better camera. That's probably the one thing I would miss the most if I decide to ditch the smartphone right now.

>>62370493
Um no sweetie, I have an email-to-sms relay. Maybe your little pea size brain can't comprehend that.

>>62370508
My 13 year old Sony Ericsson K750i could also open mails, that's nothing. I need to be able to open the fucking docx and xlsx attachment if there's any, let's see how you do that with your phone in one hand your dick in the other and no other tech in sight.

File: 1505157000795.jpg (143KB, 908x756px) Image search: [Google]

143KB, 908x756px

>>62370539
Damn dude, your jimmies are rustled pretty bad over this. Please show me on the doll where the basic phone touched you. Did it shove the .docx in a no-no spot?

>>62370539
>2017
>using attachments
wew lad

>>62370502
Sounds more like a problem with the people you're working with

>>62370605

It's typical client nonsense in this line of work, but at least when I had a dumbphone I was more insulated from it.

>>62370579
We tried using crows sending flash drives first, but it wasn't working out.

>>62370699
>not using cloud based storage for collaborative work
wew lad

>>62370755

fuck the cloud.

>>62370755
It's much more efficient and streamlined if everyone knows who does what and send jobs to be done directly. Beats fucking watching some retarded file system periodically for work to do.

>>62370803
Hmm, derp a lurp, I wonder which version of the file this is, is it the one from this morning that Alvin modified, or is it the one from George that has the latest Q2 figures in them. Or wait, did Carly address those comments in this mornings file or was it added after Ray did the status report. Damn, I got like 4 versions of this file from 5 people, hope I don't delete the wrong one and have to have ITS come and restore it on my hard drive like last week when the version numbers got swapped.

Tell me again how attachments are superior to cloud based files :^)

File: 1504549625959.png (37KB, 500x500px) Image search: [Google]

37KB, 500x500px

>>62364272
FPBP
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor
>A baseband processor typically uses its own RAM and firmware
>Since the software which runs on baseband processors is usually proprietary, it is impossible to perform an independent code audit. By reverse engineering some of the baseband chips, researchers have found security vulnerabilities that could be used to access and modify data on the phone remotely
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/replicant-developers-find-and-close-samsung-galaxy-backdoor
>Today's phones come with two separate processors: one is a general-purpose applications processor that runs the main operating system, e.g. Android; the other, known as the modem, baseband, or radio, is in charge of communications with the mobile telephony network. This processor always runs a proprietary operating system, and these systems are known to have backdoors that make it possible to remotely convert the modem into a remote spying device. The spying can involve activating the device's microphone, but it could also use the precise GPS location of the device and access the camera, as well as the user data stored on the phone. Moreover, modems are connected most of the time to the operator's network, making the backdoors nearly always accessible
>we discovered that the proprietary program running on the applications processor in charge of handling the communication protocol with the modem actually implements a backdoor that lets the modem perform remote file I/O operations on the file system

>baseband also has privileged access to hardware
>"airplane mode" is a software switch that simply disconnects your OS from the baseband, but the baseband is still connected to cellular network
>powering down a phone does nothing, since the baseband is still know to operate even with ROM hardware shut down
>no removable batteries anymore, so baseband always on and connected to network
>cell towers constantly triangulating your devices location

>>62370880
PREACH
/thread

>>62370844
Yea well, maybe your office shouldn't work like a fucking assembly line, everyone doing 10% of the work. Maybe your workers should be competent enough to be able to finish a document by themselves and then send it to the translator to have other language versions. That's how our company works, and shit gets done quickly, without any confusion, using mail attachments.

Even if we had those trained monkeys that can't do more than 10% of the work, we'd have a proper workflow where monkey A does the first 10%, then forwards it to monkey B who does the second 10% and so on.

File: serveimage.gif (38KB, 347x200px) Image search: [Google]

38KB, 347x200px

>>62370880
>implying these threats are exclusive to smartphones and that there aren't vulnerabilities that exist in dumb phones too

>>62370844

You do understand that, before cloud-based everything, shit got done in a timely, organized, effective manner... right?

This retarded as fuck.

>>62364303
give your smartphone to tyrone so he can get wifey pics while you play snake on your poorphone

>>62370940
I wasn't implying that, check the post I replied to. Nothing with a baseband is safe. Over here, you can dial 911 without a sim or otherwise any explicit network connection on your part - phones are always-on botnet

File: 1501525021592.png (431KB, 640x478px) Image search: [Google]

431KB, 640x478px

>>62370940
did you read the post he was responding to anon? Or was it the picture?

>>62370958
You've clearly never seen office space. Things are 10x more productive today with cloud based work. Using attachments is something ancient office drones do who could never understand the concept of a network shared file.

>>62370920
t. basement dweller who's never worked in real business

File: Bootloader_MotoX_Locked-630x418-600x340.jpg (32KB, 600x340px) Image search: [Google]

32KB, 600x340px

>>62364261
People switch to dumbphones because they're too dumb to secure their smartphones.

Don't be dumb OP, git gud.

>>62371072
>armchair expert telling a successful business how to run their shit
Be mad, I'm still the one getting paid $28 by the hour for 40 hours a week with 20-25 actual hours spent working wherever the fuck I please.

>>62364261
Go for a Windows phone. Pretty much a dumb phone with some minor smart capabilities.

>>62371193
$28/hr, what are you, a chef at wendys? I make $56/hr with half the time shitposting on 4chan, yet my productivity is at least 200%. Stay mad wage cuck.

File: motorola_bravo_plus.jpg (45KB, 497x358px) Image search: [Google]

45KB, 497x358px

>>62364303

I have 4 kids, the oldest of which is 24. We didn't have cellphones back when she was a newborn. They were around, but too expensive for the average person and even if you had one they were expensive to use. Back then I sold cellphones for a CellularONE retailer. Plans would be something retarded like 60 minutes a month free and $.70 a minute after that for $60/month or something like that. In 1993 money $60 a month is like paying ~$103 a month today. On top of that, phones had to be purchased outright and the cheapest thing I can remember selling back then was a Kenwood cellphone (a rebranded NEC phone) for about $400 (~$685 in 2017). Not many people were rushing out to get cellphones back then so if you had a baby at home you might stop and call the crib from a payphone if you were out or maybe you carried a pager, which I had.

>>62370094
Still going strong. When will it god damn die? Do you a custom rom on it?

>>62371298
>On top of that, phones had to be purchased outright and the cheapest thing I can remember selling back then was a Kenwood cellphone (a rebranded NEC phone) for about $400 (~$685 in 2017).
But that's what smart phones cost today. I think phone companies are just better at luring ppl in by hiding the true cost through (((monthly))) payments.

>>62371172
Still has proprietary shit all over it, including the baseband which will fuck you over. Best to get a burner phone paid with cash while wearing a hat/sunglasses, or better yet, just not using a phone at all.

File: 30K Millionaire starter kit.jpg (18KB, 320x224px) Image search: [Google]

18KB, 320x224px

>>62371193

$28/hr??? hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! Are you really trying to stunt on us making only $28/hr???


whooooooo... nigga please.

>>62371398
If he is earning that much, it's probably a dumb non-job like 'SEO Consultant'. Nobody who actually does any of the real work is ever paid that much.

Either that, or he's Californian. In which case, disregard his opinion anyway.

>>62371338

here in the US, nobody pays for a phone outright unless you're buying a cheap pay-as-you-go joint you pick up at the local 7-11 like something from Virgin Mobile, Net10/Tracfone, or the like.

In 1993, a cellphone was a luxury item.

>>62369743
Top fucking kek.
>passenger jet renovated to be a business jet
>b-but jay-z has a gulfstream!
can you be more butthurt?

>>62371193
>$28 an hour x 40 hrs x 52 weeks = $58,240 before taxes, ss, retirement, state, etc
lmfao, we got a real Rockefeller here

>>62371533
If this dude is living in any major city he is probably living in an apartment only slightly better than a cardboard box and burning trash for heat at night while fighting the cockroaches over a week-old ramen noodle that fell on the floor

>>62365820
>writing code on a phone
they'll either wait until I get on to a computer or they can go fuck themselves

>>62371383
>bitches about proprietary shit
>posts on 4chan

>>62371597
>they go fuck themselves off to another company willing to do what they want

>>62371612
The server is not my property, and I connect to it through a VPN so I'm not worried about privacy.

>>62371627
yes
also one of the reasons I don't run a business, I'm not willing to die early because of stress

>>62371628
VPNs are all range b& kiddo

>>62371648
stress doesn't kill you mongoloid

>>62371654
Which is why I have a 4chan pass

>>62371627
>Contracts are pulled because someone can't wait 15 minutes

>>62371669
>cares about privacy
>has a 4chan pass

>>62371676
Yeah actually

>>62371679
I got it with a prepaid CC that I bought with cash at walmart. Go fuck yourself.

>>62371707
>security cameras at the register know who bought the card
>chink moot knows the card number, the pass it's tied to, and all of the posts you ever made with it

>>62371736
I've seen the security camera footage at walmart, they are so grainy you'd be hard pressed to make out a face, much less a card number. Plus the tapes get overwritten every week.

>>62371787
That's what they want you to think, goy

>>62371798
I have a friend who does loss prevention at my walmart, I know what I'm talking about.

>>62371810
Did your dad work at Nintendo too?

>>62371498

IIRC, in California $28/hr qualifies you for food stamps depending on where you live.

>>62371592

Dude prolly drives and old BMW he bought for $2k on Craigslist sittin on 20's (dey really 18's but he keep 'em clean doe) and has "yo fault" insurance on it. Eats Ramen and Jumbo Jacks for dinner every night but keeps a bottle of Hennessy he refills with E&J VSOP to show off for the hoes.

>>62371315
Nope, never even formated it, its still exactly as I've got it. It works great for what I use it. However its gotten a bit slow and has quite a bit of physical damage done to it.

>>62369368
> NFC
> botnet
Explain

File: 1504244317550.jpg (99KB, 736x694px) Image search: [Google]

99KB, 736x694px

>>62371052
>>62371041
I don't know how to read.

>>62371500
Most people don't buy phones. I personally refuse not to though.

File: maxresdefault.jpg (78KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

78KB, 1280x720px

>>62371823

>>62371172
>>62364291
I just really like the physical dial pad

>>62371820
>I'm such a babby I can't even get a job at Walmart

>>62372761
>loss and prevention is the same as cleaning the floors

>>62364303
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager

>>62372800
Shortwave radio is for rednecks only, and I doubt any pager would work on modern networks.

Nobody gives a fuck about your shitty hipster trend. Everyone else is doing it, you aren't unique anymore. Outside of that which you won't admit to doing as you jerk off another 200+ post thread out about trying to find some product that doesn't exist as you go back and forth up the scale trying to find the smartphone features you secretly can't live without in a dumbphone because the entire point of them is to NOT have them which is why you can't find such a product, you're a neo-luddite exactly the same as your grandma who fought PCs in the 80s. Smartphones aren't shit, you're just a scared little child.

>>62365622
If taking pictures of things on my phone didn't streamline my job a whole heap and they never turned off the 2g network I'd still be using my nokia 216.

Easily the best feature phone interface I've used.

I'm 38 with a wife and 2 kids, electrical engineer, never owned a smartphone. Currently deployed to Fla on storm duty but just finished a shift and have nothing to do for the next few hours, AMA I guess.

>>62376510
What are you posting on atm, if not a phone? How do your handle emergency mail and the like? What's your everyday carry? Are you wife and kids pissed you're a luddite?

>>62376554
>What are you posting on atm, if not a phone?
Toughbook with a 4G card.
>How do your handle emergency mail and the like?
I get SMS messages if my inbox gets mail that's appropriately flagged. Sometimes they forget to flag, but they usually call me within a few mins either way.
>What's your everyday carry?
My flip-phone, my laptop, and misc. Laptop goes everywhere since my main job is testing and running diags on our grid.
>Are you wife and kids pissed you're a luddite?
No.

File: masthead-phone.png (54KB, 452x383px) Image search: [Google]

54KB, 452x383px

>>62364261
>Water proof
>Good signal anywhere
>Shock proof
>Week long battery life

These things are the shit. I've never owned a smart phone because I only do calling or use a PC for the rest. I highly suggest this.

>>62372317
I would recommend you to install official Cyanogen mod 7.2 on it (android 2.3.7). Otherwise quite vanilla when compared to the original OS but lighter and more control.
Also overclock that bitch

>>62364303

Well if your wife's son gets unexpectedly ill, can't she contact the biological father?

>>62364261
big dumb buttons
...i miss em
and steer clear of flip phones, fuckin cunts always break