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I had a stint of unemployment this last summer. After looking hard, I found a job at a factory. This factory wasn't the dirty and greasy factories of old. Inste
by kefka 13y ago
I had a stint of unemployment this last summer. After looking hard, I found a job at a factory. This factory wasn't the dirty and greasy factories of old. Instead, I worked on processing cell phones.
Phones came in, were stripped of sim/memory cards, sent to charging, then went to data wipe, then off to inspection (I was here), and then 2 layers of QA.
My job entailed in making sure there was no user data on the phones, nor were there memory/sim cards in the phones. We also had to classify damage as well. And I had to do 350 phones in a 10 hour shift. So I saw a _LOT_ of phones. These ranged from junky feature phones to the newest of new phones.
And you know what, I saw much more variation and 'cool' tech in the Androids than any other phone. There was that Sony Playstation phone. I saw a phone with 2 outside cameras to do 3d pictures.. And it had a 3d screen ala 3DS to boot. There was another android that was a square, perhaps 3 inches, and it folded out on a hinge and slid and created a rectangle 3x6. One model I will avoid is the Motorola Droids. They use a crap screen tech that leaves 'bullet holes' in the screen LCD, even with no other obvious damage. And I saw a LOT of these.
And then, I saw the Blackberries. They were annoying. The scroll wheel stunk. The touchscreens were the antithesis of sensitive.. not to mention the ones with the screen clicking on certain models. The browsers were absolute junk. Apps? You jest. You want to program it? Yeah right: have YOU tried using that devel suite? The media player was junk bolted on. Maybe they worked well when hooked up to a BES. Then again, maybe not.
- kefka 13y agoAs an aside, I went phone shopping recently. I had a old iPhone 3gs, which was unlocked and jailbroken. And it was getting a bit old. The home key was dying, but that's a fairly simple fix. In the end, I wanted an Android. It's a much friendlier platform, and I can develop for it. But... which one? I knew I wanted a phablet-esque phone like a Note 2 (but not the $800 unlocked price... yeouch!). So, what was there? I wanted a high quality display, a good amount of ram, preferred a S-pen stylus. I hopped on the Chinese sites to see which phones would work, and the prices associated. I narrowed down and finally ordered one from this seller: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/new-arrival-in-may-6-Haipai-N7889-MTK6589-Quad-Core-android-phone-1GB-RAM-16GB-Dual/934112323.html http://www.aliexpress.com/item/new-arrival-in-may-6-Haipai-N... I got it 7 days later, and it frankly kicks ass. It's one of the nicest Androids I've ever used. And I used probably 2000 of them at my previous cell phone recovery plant job. My only thing I didn't get was S-pen support. That was a bummer, but I think only the Samsung's support the S-Pen screen. And it really is a monster size of a phone. The N7889 is sold as a Note 2 clone, but in reality nakes the Note 2 look small. It really matches the profile of a Galaxy Mega, with the exception that the flash is to the right of the camera. The real Mega's flash is below the camera.