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Preodering the Galaxy Note 4. Not sure if I will bend it.
How about...the
"Iboughtthisoverpricedpieceofcrapcausethetvtoldmeineedtobespiedon" TM
RIPS
I finally got my Z30 the other day. I am pleasantly surprised with it ... and it is very nice to be out of the Android ecosystem.
Regards,
Cooter
Listen Cooter.
I need you "ZERO's" to hurry out and "BUY" the latest American gadgets.
It will make you feel so "RELEVANT", a "PART" of the herd, a "MADE" American.
Hurry now...
Can you make that monkey stop raping that puppy please?
I know, I shouldn't feed you.
got my blackphone last month, fully encrypted. happy with it so far. ive got three silent circle passes i can give to friends if any of the tylers are interested.
just shoot me a text: 1-FUC-KTH-ENSA
Listen.
Iphones are for kids and girls.
My samsung smacks the fuck outa any Ifuc ...then rapes its mouth...and when I ejaculate..karate chop to the throat... and wad drips out its nose...
Thats what we call the 'steaming dragon' round these parts. Good luck with your gay Iphones.
And I mean that in the most insulting way possible.
+100
Holy shit Stupid E!! Awesome
It is the FB of cell phones.
I am heading back to BB too. The overheating and lockups are not making me happy.
Listen.
Let me be real clear.
You're a good American Monkey.
Buy it, then fucking buy it again.
Good boy! Good!
Bangalone - Sit! Lie Down !!
Stay !!! and STFU
Good dog
Just another month-old wannabe ZH maven ...not there yet.
Just an observation, but anyone heard from ORI (OhRegionalIndian) lately? Maybe ORI got wiped and came back angry, as Bangalore.
Listen. You're a funny American, aren't you!
Funny and inquisitive. For sure.
Let me be clear here. I have your precious little "REGIONAL" Indian tied up in my closet and he's not coming back until I have him fully RE_programmed as my personal ISIL "REBEL"!
While your there Bangalore... could you get me a good butter chicken recipie. Since you departed the Empire its been Hell old son, making my own G&T while faning myself just isn 't done old boy. Run along and do what you do best. (annoying the fuck out of me by ringing to sell me your lastest must have phone plan while I'm on the shitter).
Banglewhore is rebranded Gh0atraper was rebranded BitCon hack, what what it's name? Dont feed it...
I'm afraid after reading your post that you have a toilet fetish.
"Listener: To listen to a person(s) use the toilet. Example: I went to the toilet only to find Lei was listening."
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=listener
"Listen.
Let me be real clear.
You're a good American Monkey.
Buy it, then fucking buy it again.
Good boy! Good!"
Easy there chief. I am in high buck IT sales. I live and die by the phone. If a new communicator makes me incrementally happy, it will ROI in reduced frustration in 2-3 months. Tops.
I can and will buy whatever fucking phone I like. It ain't vanity.
No, it's sales sociopath ego.
BlindMonkey
The latest BB OS is pretty disappointing actually. Switched back to BB after one year with an iPhone4. BB OS7 was brilliant, OS10 is more like iOS than BB OS7. In fact the email application in iOS puts BB's OS10 system to shame.
My first Z30 would reset itself every 30 days back to some random date and time and then download all my work email off the server (close to a GB) from a certain period prior to the new date and time. Not very fun when you only have a GB of data on your plan... Took a few resets and reloading EVERYTHING and it doing it again before BB gave me a "new" used device three months after I bought it NEW.
While it's nice to not be on the iOS bandwagon I have to say the Z30 sucks ass compared directly to the iPhone4 in terms of me having to fuck with it for three months to get it to stop doing unreasonable shit.
Up until the latest update when you started typing an email address it would display EVERY email address from any email you received, were cc'd on and every person cc'd on those email as well. So you get an email from, let's say a book club you are in, every person that was cc'd would suddenly show up as an email suggestion. I had close to a hundred suggestions of people I didn't know, spam email addresses, junk email addresses. Absolute fucking FAIL from a programming standpoint.
And you can't BCC yourself automatically, you have to type your address in every time, they made it so your email server would have to do the BCC task, which 99.999% of them do not.
To add a gmail account you have to sync your contacts and calendar in your phone with your gmail account. Needless to say I no longer use gmail.
Current reviewers are raving about the new personal assistant putting Siri to shame (Karl Denninger being one), but they don't mention that the current version of voice recognition couldn't find it's ass with two hands. You ask it to call someone from your contacts list and it mentions names that do not exist or it looks up some bastardized version of your request in the internet browser (which is also fucked up in it's own right). The current voice system makes Siri look like Einstein really, pitiful and should have never made it into the OS.
BB dropped to the bottom for a reason and parts of OS 10 painfully point out again and again why they nearly went under.
If you liked OS 7 for all of it's features and settings don't expect to see any of them in OS 10.
The battery is great though, five days if you have good reception. If you don't it will eat the battery pretty quick.
I have no idea what you're talking about. I have a tali-phone. I have a list of names...press the button, it calls. It's a fuckin' phone.
Ahem...
Digit magazine names BlackBerry 10.2 OS world's best Mobile ... http://www.digit.in/mobile-phones/the-worlds-best-mobile-os-23575.html
Enough said. Peace!
Notice that they tested the latest software version, not the previous/broken versions.
Time magazine picked BO as person of the year in 2012, just because some magazine says it, don't necessarily mean it's true.
I guess it's now OK to say you have a BlackBerry on ZH without getting slammed.
The parts for an iphone 6 cost something like $200
See here for a teardown costing
iPhone 6 Component Costs Estimated to Begin at $200, Samsung Supplying Some A8 Chips
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/23/iphone-6-parts-cost-samsung-a8/
So, is the iGumby problem going to be a really big, expensive fix, or is the market overreacting? AAPL buy opportunity? I don't use their products because I found them difficult to type on, and wasn't really a fan of Jobs, who I met earlier in my career. But it has been a good investment so far.
So I assume you won't mind that I pay you one-third of your current salary?
If you want products at cost, then don't be surprised when no one will pay you above labour cost.
You guys that want everything cheap and free, just can't figure out how this is lowering your own salary.
Without an open OS you might as well blend it.
Will it Blend? — iPhone 6 Plus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBUJcD6Ws6s
Mc! I don't believe you have ever replied to me (Don't start now), but it's always good to find you on a thread.
Maybe a year ago I met a young lady at a do, who was obviously enamoured with her icrap:
She: "Ewww. Why do you have THAT?" <Flashing her ishit encrusted with glitter>
Me: "Sorry?"
She: "Your phone. It's a Samsung" <She said in the same tone she would use at men whose credit cards weren't the right colour>
Me: "Yes. What I about it?" <pseudo-american babble, "Ewww" got my hackles up immediately (We say "Yuck", not "Ewww" in blighty, for fuck sake)>
She: "Well, nothing. I thought you would have better than that".
Me: "I prefer not to give my money to a company that uses child labour in Africa, exploits teen slaves in China and cons gullible adults in America. Besides this phone is an essential tool that works really well for me, I doubt yours works at all if you hold it the wrong way. Will you excuse me please?".
Walked quickly away before she asked which company I was talking about. Explaining Foxconn and Braeburn Capital to idolts is just too exhausting.
Pre-ordering one myself, and no they don't bend.
I've never understood this: what's the difference between ordering something and "preordering" it?
And in any case, as opposed to what? How could you post-order it?
ordering is for things that actually exist
pre-ordering is for things that may exist in the future, if you are lucky
.... in that case, I'm "pre-ordering" two 20 year old freaks. One blond, with brown eyes. One brunette, with deep blues eyes ( god bless, I love that combo). And enough cash to make them forget I'm old enough to be their grandfather.
*ta-ding!*
Wish fulfilled, here are your grand daughters.
apple marketing will soon release an update that allows your 6+ to conform to the contour of your pocket.
Just a way to get all the banks in before it gets announced they are going in the DOW!
So friggin cool!
They all aid and abet spying on their customers.
Delusional to think one form of cyanide is better thananother
if you know this going in, it's no big deal to use the device. i go into bank or .gov building, my image is captured, same with my office. awareness is needed of data collection but not fear. YMMV
Just wait until autonomous algorithmic sorting of these piles of "disjointed" data is up and running... not saying cower in fear, but to assert that it's "no big deal" will sound like a tremendously stupid statement in 5-10 years.
You really think it will take that long? This is a project that's been in the works for a long time.
I wouldn't doubt if basic algorithmic AI are already operational... the above is the "optimist" in me :P
Nothing prohibits you from wearing a different face...
Except Blackberry.
Priceless...
Gotta know when to call, and when to fold
Jobs is dead.
Now that's some brilliance right there. Too funny.
Samsung should do an ad that has the iphone trying to mimic the samsung curve TVs :)
So many comments, it's hard to decide which to go with. I think I'll stand this one out. pot_and_kettle pretty much covered it.
That's rayycisssst!
It will bend....but will it blend?
Ummmmm .... Great Bass
https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=snl+blender+skit&ei=UTF-8&fr=moz35
Bad link to the blend above. Try this one.
WTF?
Also, where can I get one of those blenders?
Get a Vitamix, about the same price and you can control the action. Does everything from shakes, ice cream, to processing 75 lbs of tomatoes (skin and all) into sauce.
pods
+1 for the Vitamix. Use ours daily. I stopped using the juicer and no fruit/veggie waste. Same HP rating as our treadmill - lol
A person could make one hell of a margarita with one of those babies.
iBartender
Mass Fraud should be a crime against humanity.
Please support this petition at whitehouse.gov.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/mass-financial-fraud-should-be...
Sign-it, Share it, repost it, pass it on.
So.....you're petitioning Mass Financial Fraud to the White House?
Let me know how that works out for you.
LOL!!!
Dear Mr. or Mrs. Cheeseberger901,
Change of any significance will not come from petitions, voting or any other inside-the-system process. When the local green grocer, school crossing guard and little old grannie from down the street finally determine they have had enough and they all hit the street and stay there past lunch, then maybe I will give even odds some sort of change is coming.
And not a moment before that event.
The petition, whatever the topic, does provide a ready-made database of those who are unhappy with the current status quo.
And we all know what that means.
Honeypot, bitchez....
Closer spot next to the fire at FEMA camp.
Winning!
S'more's for everyone!! We're at Camp!!
Changes of significance will be greatly accelerated when
there are hungry people in the street. It will be all about the food.
And water, if you are on the Dry Side, formerly known as the Left Coast.
When there is food on the table, there are many problems. When there is no food on the table, there is only one problem.
"Mass Fraud should be a crime against humanity."
No!!! Free Jon Corzine!!
C'mon! Man!
iWaste.
Macbook in my pocket
http://i.imgur.com/zeRoTA2.jpg
Flaccid markets. Flaccid devices everywhere! GLTA...lol
nice to see you CPL.
If I were an Apple devotee I would miss Steve Jobs, the Copernicus of Cupertino, dearly.
Must admit that is cute. But you guys are mean. Does everyone here at Zero Hedge hate Apple? So far out of the over 10 millon sold, 9, 9 have been reported to apple as bent. 9. And who the hell buys a $200.00 phone and does not put a protective case over it the first day. That is just dumb. I do not work or advertise for Apple but I have been using there products for over 25 years and I just love em. Nothing against Samsung, Android or whatever. Just like what I got.
Apple is not the problem. Lady Yellen is.
I read it as "9 out of 10 million sold have been reported as bent". That would explain today's markets.
You demonstrate the mental prowess of all crapple fanbois by using the word there, when the correct word is their. You are quite welcome.
/sarc
Also, Lady Yellen? More like Disgusting Pig Yellen. I excrete things that are more lady-like than she, every single day.
Why do 9 out of 10 spelling and grammar Nazis manage to mangle their own comments in attacks over the errors of others?
It's really very simple
NO ONE PROOFREADS ANYMORE
Type, hit the Save button - who cares - 95% of ZH posts
Guess it doesn't matter about good grammar, correct spelling, creative and critical thinking skills ... these used to be signs of a good education.
And now ... WGAS rules. (whogivesashit) Perhaps I should change my persona as well.
In my case, numb fingers that are stiff and a bit of moderate nerve damage...but I try to go back and correct errors.
That is MR. Yellen to you sir. Show some respect.
I've used Apple products for a while until two things happened. First they started sucking money out of people by selling "upgrades" with very marginal improvements over the previous model, and secondly they gave the NSA a backdoor to steal information. With open source software NSA intrusions can be rooted out. As far as bend-gate goes, Apple claims to build a superior product and prides itself on "the beauty and slenderness" of its phone. Why then would they make it so you have to cover it up with a big old clumsy case?
Big Case - Waterproof iPhone leaks - warranty void.
Need I say more.
You Linux open source guys REALLY think Linux has not been backdoored? Naive.
Just because it is open source does not mean it is safe. You actually think that EVERYONE on a Distro design team is NOT working for the NSA?
Naive.
No, it is you who is naive. While I do believe ubuntu is at least partially compromised, your claim that every distro includes an NSA stooge is pure assertion with zero factual basis.
One reason you should suspect your own conclusion is... because many people involved in Linux and distributions think as you do --- and therefore spend a lot of time looking for any instances of tampering. Which helps.
You do realize they don't just chuck any old code written by any old stooge into the code, do you?
But if you refer to applications that run on top of the Linux kernel and fundamental libraries, then sure, who knows what's in them, because "just anyone" can contribute them. But even in those cases, there are quite a few people who set up hardware monitoring devices on their systems to look for perverts like these.
Besides, which is worse? An OS supplied by companies who purposely include backdoors and information theft on behalf of the predators-that-be, or an OS supplied by people who take great pains to assure their OS is free of perversions.
Mac and cheese
I've had the same phone for 8 years.
I don't trust new phones as the share all data with Apple, Google and Facebook.
I'll stick with institution you can trust, like the NSA and GCHQ thank you very much.
The same hypocrites that whine about the NSA spying are the same bunch that are buying these new gadgets and paying a corporation so that they can be spied on...(facepalm...)
You know that I just really do not care anymore as I have lost all hope.
This crowd is demonstrative of how useless resistance is.
But I still will not violate my personal principles.
To the rest of you...Have fun when you are bombed into oblivion. Those GPS coordinates will come in handy.
To the NSA..FUCK YOU.
I teach homeless how to make Nitroglycerin Bombs. Somehow I think that you had better armour the bottoms of your APCs. Of course you may burn more gallons per mile. But do not concern yourselves too much.
These fools who buy this iCrap will be more than happy to pay the bill.
I-phone from Apple....I-run from Apple shares!
Thanks, tried to edit there to their but for some reason the "edit" is not available. And just trying to be civil with "lady Yellen". But we are on the same page. lol.
Cannot edit after a reply to your comment has been posted.
You can proofread your comment before you hit the save button.
But why bother - no one else does.
Prostrate before a world leader...it's the Obama Phone...Global Edition
I've never owned a cell-phone / mobile-phone. But also, I've never owned a TV, radio, stereo, wristwatch, jewelry and endless other trivial items either.
I do own top-notch computers, electronics lab and airplane though.
The few times I'm near humans I always marvel at how mobile-phones control humans, not the other way around.
<sarcasm>Watching humans and their mobile-phones let me to discovered a new fundamental force of nature, however. A force that works exactly opposite of all other discovered forces. Unlike all other forces, the connection force between humans with mobile-phones gets stronger with distance! Seriously.
Whenever someone far away wants to talk with someone with a mobile-phone, the human the phone controls is always forced to pay attention to the more remote source of conversation. I'm sure everyone else has noticed this too... humans always pay more attention to people far away (over the phone). They totally ignore people near them, leave them hanging in the middle of a conversation, just jabber endlessly about irrelevant trivia with some moron far, far away.</sarcasm>
Hey! Hello Ann. It's my lucky day for discovering old acquaintances on ZH! I hope the self-sufficient community project you mentioned a few years ago got started successfully with some decent people. I thought at the time that it was risky to expose yourself to strangers online and advised you to be wary, but did hope that you would be able to find a few on ZH who are trustworthy.
I can understand your reticence at relying on too much gadgetry for survival, and perhaps most of the everyday modern gadgets you mentioned are trivial. A mobile phone won't help you if you need to build a shelter, skin a deer, or plant some vegetables after all. But being a city boy, I do like my toys and if I buy something new, I am one of those strange people who will read every word in the technical manual to see what it can do, then use it to its full capability and modify it to do more. I like technology in all its forms and functions simply because they are useful to me in my habitat right now. But if I were living blissfully with nature in the woods I would probably be equally enthused about flora and fauna, herbal medicine, micro generation, animal husbandry, super foods, holistic crops and the rest.
Anyway, it's true what they say perhaps, about distance making the heart grow stronger. Or maybe human beings are silly creatures who never appreciate what they have around them, but hanker after things beyond their reach.
Hello again... long time no see! We must be reading and commenting in different articles.
The self-sufficient community project has been... frustrating. The term "herding cats" comes to mind. I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised that individualists aren't easy to get on the same page, but the extent to which that is true has been stunning to me. I pretty much got everyone who contacted me in touch with each other, turned over the conversation to the most active of them, then mostly set back and watched.
I haven't exposed myself to strangers beyond one of the email addresses I communicate with. Since all my communication flows through 5-levels of rather unique and oddball hardware indirection that I set up myself (some in very remote locations), I don't think I'm taking much risk. And I'm not that interesting! Especially since I'm one of the "evade/shrug crowd", not one of the "fight it out with the predators crowd".
Actually, the main reason I didn't buy many items that most humans do is primarily because I'm a world-class cheapskate. Well, more like I refrain from spending on things I don't really need so I can spend BIG on goodies that are important to me. Like my self-sufficient digs, my spiffy, modern, high-tech albeit small 2-place airplane and my computers and electronics lab.
Actually, I do keep a years supply of herbs and vitamins made from organic super-foods, but that's not especially expensive. And recently I've started to grow a few of the herbs I consume on a long-term basis, plus a few spices. And like you, I do an enormous amount of research before I buy anything expensive. Cheapskates can't afford to make mistakes!
While I greatly appreciate what I have near me now (my wonderful digs in the boonies), I also always seem to have extreme goals that make me hanker for things... that I damn well intend to reach! Since I've already reached a few goals that others claimed were "impossible", I'm not inclined to take their words and just "lie back and relax" for the rest of my life. I will help complete ICE, then become inorganic and immortal, then explore and engineer the universe... for fun. Or die trying.
Oh, a couple parting words about the collaboration. Though it has become clear that only 3 or 4 of the dozen potential collaborators will actually "do something", the "do" part seems to be getting closer and sooner. Their choice is northern Chile, in the atacama desert (near the ocean) or in the atacama andes (further inland and higher elevation). The final decision of "exactly what to do" has been narrowed down to a couple choices, and the few who are intent to follow through and "do something" currently plan to explore the specific locations and make specific plans in late October and November.
Probably the reason humans don't appreciate what they have around them is... because almost all of them live in some terrible city or otherwise terrible otherwhere. In my case, I loved living on a remote mountaintop for 7 years, loved living in Wailea, Maui for many years, now love living in my hidden digs in the middle of nowhere-ville, and will certainly love living in our traveling space craft/habitat once we get that far. At which point I'll probably turn over my current digs to some very surprised and lucky human I've run into. I'll keep your name on the list, but don't hold your breath. Who knows when the next move will happen? Not me. Not yet.
You noted your observations about humans. May I ask what species you are? Are you from some remote area of the planet Earth? Or elsewhere?
Intellectually, I am my own species. And literally, I am actively working on becoming a non-species, which means, no longer organic. Not kidding.
Yes, I live in a very remote place in my own self-sufficient digs, 125km from the nearest human, not reachable by land vehicle. And yes, once I am able to leave earth, I will. Not kidding about that, either.
My iphone 4 has been through hell and back. Original screen,original battery that lasts 2 days without charging. All the Samsumg phone owners i know are either constantly dropping calls because the battery dies or looking for a wall outlet because the juice is always running short. My 2 cents.
Love my Note 3. Battery with everything on lasts all day and a beautiful 1080P resolution. Very responsive phone. It was worth giving up the iphone 4. Sprint service...well, that's another story.
Fuck Apple and their walled garden.
They must have copied it from someone.
mentals...
It's like comparing apples to bananas.
Can actually watch apple go wally world. Soon you will be able to buy the reman's that didn't work all repacked and pretty in the wallyworld display case sold as new and it's your responsibility to take it back for a refund and get your money back becaue all ther parts weren't there. Standard wally world operating mode. New IOS doesn't work and I'll believe a iwatch when I see one.
All that ad needed was fucking rabid Kenyan faggot monkey mounting and back-sctuttling the bent thing and the NSA, dicks hanging out, in a line round the block waiting to get sloppy seconds