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General discussionWas just gifted my first ever smartphone(45 posts)(45 posts)
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Posted April 29, 2016
sell it on gazelle.com
Posted April 29, 2016
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drealmer7: sell it on gazelle.com
g2a! :D
Posted April 29, 2016
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drealmer7: sell it on gazelle.com
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tinyE: g2a! :D
Are you guys nuts, my girlfriend (the gifter) would kill me!
Posted April 29, 2016
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drealmer7: sell it on gazelle.com
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tinyE: g2a! :D
g2a?
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tinyE: g2a! :D
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ashwald: Are you guys nuts, my girlfriend (the gifter) would kill me!
explain to her it is excessively unnecessary and underutilized by you and that you'd be better off with something else from the money (and then have her return it to wherever she got it for a full refund) - then get a kitten, or massage oils, orrr, anything else!

honesty and communication are key!
Post edited April 29, 2016 by drealmer7
Posted April 29, 2016
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tinyE: g2a! :D
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ashwald: Are you guys nuts, my girlfriend (the gifter) would kill me!
Are we nuts!? You have a girlfriend and you're hanging out in here with us dorks! :P
Posted April 29, 2016
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ashwald: So apparently I'm now a proud owner of the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime Value Edition. Is there anything I should be doing security wise before I start using the thing?

I should note here that the device will NEVER go online, I'll be using it strictly as a dumb-phone. No internet, social media, apps and whatever. Just regular phonecalls & sms. Yes, the poor device is wasted on me lol.

Oh yeah, I forgot the most important thing: the os is android lollipop 5.1 or 5.1.1.
Just download Candy Crush saga, and twatter, and join the ever growing queue of dipshits walking around with their faced glued to a phone.
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ashwald: Are you guys nuts, my girlfriend (the gifter) would kill me!
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tinyE: Are we nuts!? You have a girlfriend and you're hanging out in here with us dorks! :P
Hey, thats not fair, some of have goats and we still hang out here with you!
Post edited April 29, 2016 by nightcraw1er.488
Posted April 29, 2016
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ashwald: Are you guys nuts, my girlfriend (the gifter) would kill me!
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tinyE: Are we nuts!? You have a girlfriend and you're hanging out in here with us dorks! :P
Touche! although.. in few minutes I'm meeting a woman again.. Still I thought I could happily play skyrim till my ears bled.
Posted April 29, 2016
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nightcraw1er.488: Just download Candy Crush saga
Oh my god nooooooooooooo don't even joke about that

I have a sibling who plays that game at full volume whenever I'm stuck somewhere with them.
Posted April 29, 2016
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nightcraw1er.488: Just download Candy Crush saga
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a4plz: Oh my god nooooooooooooo don't even joke about that

I have a sibling who plays that game at full volume whenever I'm stuck somewhere with them.
*cringes in sympathy*
Posted April 29, 2016
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nightcraw1er.488: Just download Candy Crush saga
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a4plz: Oh my god nooooooooooooo don't even joke about that

I have a sibling who plays that game at full volume whenever I'm stuck somewhere with them.
You might get off with 15 years good behaviour for murder.
Posted April 29, 2016
Welcome to social, technical and mechanical confusion.

"-RIIIING. -RIIIIING. -RIIIIING.
-You've got one missed call.
-I know that's because I don't have the dexterity of a Esport champion!"

"John?! I was trying to call Belinda! And why am I staring at your bearded chin?"

Edit: Worse joke than usual removed.
Post edited April 29, 2016 by Tarm
Posted April 29, 2016
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Gilozard: snip
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ashwald: There seems to be a bunch of sites where one can get NetGuard from, but which one is the official one? I'd like to check that first rather than going blindly to the google play store.
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tinyE: Totally useless. :P
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ashwald: At least it has one of the lowest sars ratings among the phones one can buy over here. Lower than all readily available dumb-phones too, now that caught me by surprise.
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Asbeau: Why wouldn't you want this?
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ashwald: What can I say, I'm old-fashioned and already fully equipped. :P I want my phone to simply be a phone and prefer to save the phone battery for emergencies.

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HereForTheBeer: NEVER go online with it? Yeah, check back with us in 6 months and tell us how long it took to break that pledge. ; )

There's some handy stuff they can do, that doesn't constitute screwing around: internet, email, weather, GPS, file storage and transfer via cloud service, music player, and tons more. Just gotta watch the permissions of the apps you use: why does this flashlight app need access to my contact list?
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ashwald: See above.
https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard is the dev's github and http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-netguard-root-firewall-t3233012/page244 is the forum feedback thread.
Posted April 29, 2016
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Asbeau: I'm not criticising you at all, but I just don't get it.

For me, having an internet capable device in my pocket at all times is one of the great tech advances of the last decade or two.
I thought so too, but in reality I use my smartphone quite little at least for web browsing. It is still just so damn awkward with the touch controls and on a small screen, I really wouldn't want to e.g. write this message with my phone. I guess the web pages which are designed for mobile devices are ok, but they tend to be restricted (e.g. if I go to hs.fi for news with the phone, I can't neither read nor write reader comments there, only read the news articles themselves).

My wife is online with her phone all the time, but I guess it is due to Facebook. I don't do Facebook etc. so maybe that is why I find so little use being online with my phone.

The most important "smart usage" for my phone is using its car navigation capabilities, but I don't really need to be online for that. In fact I require that the car navigation must work also in offline mode, when I am using it abroad. I use MapFactor navigator with offline OpenMaps downloaded to the device.

Oh I forgot, another handy thing nowadays is its calender so that I don't have to fire up my work laptop only to see what meetings or appointments I have the next week. Yeah that is actually quite important for me nowadays. But it still irks me how slow and cumbersome it is to write messages or edit text with a phone...
Post edited April 29, 2016 by timppu
Posted April 29, 2016
This thread made me realize I have a problem. I can add GOG and its forum to my addictions.
Yes I check the forum and sometimes the store too with my smartphone if I've gone long enough from my computer. Even at work and kinda wherever I am if I have a connection to the net. :/

Hey GOG. Fix that damn second load on mobiles! It makes me missclick all the freaking time! This is the only site I've ever found that have this ridiculously annoying "feature".
Posted April 29, 2016
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ashwald: I should note here that the device will NEVER go online, I'll be using it strictly as a dumb-phone. No internet, social media, apps and whatever. Just regular phonecalls & sms.
That sounds familiar. People still look at me funny when I tell them that my phone has no internet.^^
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