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I've boarded flights on percents you wouldn't go to the bathroom with (lemmy.today)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [M] to c/BrandNewSentence@lemmy.today
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[–] 23 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Thats why I like phones with large batteries. My 15,000mah phone is currently at 22%, but that'll last me the rest of the day easy.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    What phone has that large of a battery? Is it pretty large in general? My oneplus 12 has 5400mah and I thought that was pretty decent.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Is that fake wood on the side? A woody phone, lol.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago*

    That is a Nokia P-30. I believe it's something more akin to pleather or rubber, though it might just be a slightly different type of plastic. It's ridged to provide better grip, since these early cell phones were quite heavy.

    The image is grabbed from this ebay listing

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  • [–] 13 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    Ulefone Armor 26 Ultra. Its in the category of "rugged phones" Weighs a full pound. But has every bell and whistle you can think of. Headphone jack, waterproof, dual sim card, Infrared blaster so you can use it as a universal remote, 15,000 mah battery (a little over 3 days of normal use) with reverse charging (I can charge my wifes iphone with it), massive speaker, and theres an antenna you can screw in to make it into a walkee talkee, also its about half the price of any mainstream phone.

    It uses Mediatek processor instead of snapdragon, so its not top of the line, but definitely more than capable. Its also made by a chinese company. So you can add that to the list of people spying on your phone usage. Also they get security updates, but no version updates. So whatever version of Android it comes with will be the only one itll ever use. My model is a couple years old. Newest one replaces the walkee talkee for a projector.

    https://store.ulefone.com/

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    I have an Armor 24 with 22Ah battery.

    BUT, some warning. Nearly 5 months ago, Kaspersky found malware baked into firmware of many Chinese devices: https://securelist.com/keenadu-android-backdoor/118913/

    Unfortunately, they did not provide device list, but my Armor 24 was also affected. libandroid_runtime.so didn't trigger the detection, but QuickStep APK (launcher and navigation) was flagged when checking with VirusTotal.
    There was an OTA update which removed this, though as usual with Ulefone, the updates will bring new bugs. Thankfully this got fixed before the Android 15 update which I heard is quite buggy.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    That makes sense. I have side eyed those type of phones but I really need something that fits in my pockets better, and I hate not getting version updates. Security updates are nice but once a version gets too old those stop too.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    To be fair my pixel got the update to android 17 and I didn't notice a single thing that changed. Then again they get 7 years of version updates so the start vs the eol version will be a much bigger gap.

    The reason I skipped past those rugged phones fast was not the mayor version updates, but the fact that security updates end way too early. A quick lookup says they don't even publish eol dates which is jikes.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I had a phone that I loved, Cosmo Communicator, and it never received a version update. The version shipped was already one behind, and after a few years apps started to not work on the thing. The Linux dual boot was also kind of jank, so its mostly a paperweight for me now. I don't care as much about os changes as I do about app updates for some things.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    That machine would have been so awesome if it had been handled properly. I was so disappointed when I saw that it was going nowhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    The hardware was decent, but the company behind it seemed to want to ship a new device every 9 months instead of supporting something long term. It would have been nice if they were a little more open so that the community could do something with it.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Are you the one with the phone the size of a network switch which shipped with a rootkit installed from factory? I saw a post about that recently.

    People were like "why?" And the response was "the battery lasts a week on one charge"

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    • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

    You have to switch the phone to airplane mode for the flight so it's useless anyway.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Aside from, y'know, downloaded stuff. That said my phone lasts so much longer in airplane mode, it's ridiculous.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    If this is on the flight, it might be because the phone isn't expending energy constantly trying to connect to networks when you are high up in the air or over the ocean. It makes a pretty big difference

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    The last few flights I was on I didn't notice them telling people to put phones in airplane mode, in contrast to years ago when they made a big deal about it. During landing they said to put laptops away but that small electronic devices could still be used, so if someone wanted to be on their phone the whole time nothing's stopping them and no one is checking if it is in airplane mode. Although it would be pointless for most of the flight anyway because there is no signal. If you wanted to use the in-flight wifi, you can turn wifi on while airplane mode is on and that will work.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    You only really need to do it for take of and landing.

    But you still don't have data or GPS or anything and a lot of flights don't have wifi so pretty useless unless you have offline games or downloaded shows/movies/audiobooks.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    You have GPS, it literally only receives so it can't affect flight instruments.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Idk I've never been able to get GPS on my phone to work on a plane always. I think consumer devices have it disabled over certain speeds/altitudes so people can't make home made rockets and shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    While that is true, commercial flights aren't going over those limits (they're to prevent ICBMs). I used it on my last flight without issue and could see how close to my destination I was, how high the plane was and how fast we were going.

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    [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I sometimes don't both charging my phone overnight because I know I can get it to at least 60-70% while I'm in the shower. Have y'all not heard of fast chargers?

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    • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    I uninstalled or disabled everything recommended in Canta (using Shizuku) and now my phone battery lasts three days.

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