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Not to sure the F91W is the pinnacle, but it most certainly isn't bad, I used to have one those myself. The battery replacement is very easy to do on them and it should be similar on other devices as well, I mean can you imagine having to send your expensive Nikon camera back to Nikon every time the battery dies?
Yeah, but a Casio F91W is just a simple reliable time piece whereas a Breitling isn't really a timepiece, it's man jewellery. Heck even my 20+ year old titanium Seiko is as much man jewellery as it is timepiece (which part it does very well, it's good to better than 5 seconds in 3 months which is better than 1 ppm which is amazing for a portable instrument that cost about £65).
As promised, here are my thoughts on the Pixel 6A, I really like it, yes it has a learning curve, but that is not the phone but Android 13, and that would be the same regardless of the OS, each and every new OS sucks until you learn how to drive it. The phone is really pretty powerful without breaking the bank and the method of closing an app is now sinking in and I admit, it is far more logical than previous versions of Android OS's.bd139 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 8:11 pmI bought mine directly from Amazon rather than other sellers. Warranty is important. I paid £287.43 for mine which is £87.44 more than just the AppleCare for the iPhone 14 ProSpecmaster wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2023 6:19 pmWell, no, it was sub £260 but the phone is 100% new, in original box and was sealed, but there are indeed quite a few sellers, even on Amazon, selling these phones for quite northwards of £260 and they are sold as refurbs and are clearly marked as such. So all in I think I got a pretty good deal.
The phone is a few grams heavier than the old one and I will certainly be getting a case for it as it very slippery. Now begins the long process of installing things and transferring data from old one over. Things like passwords etc just will not transfer over, the apps all did, but they all require setting up and Android 13 is a lot different to that on the old one so need to take it slowly and learn my around the interface.
I keep my passwords in KeepassX as it's platform portable. As much as MS are fucking dickwads, as I'm on a windows machine, using Authenticator and Edge actually sync across desktop and android nicely. As good as iOS/macOS.
The companies issuing Android phones and running business critical software on them (a web browser is critical, as is email.) and not fencing them in, extremely so, are simply tipping the scales heavily towards short-time cost cutting measures that are going to hurt them in the long run. The Android ecosystem is so full of holes that the costs of running in it, and the damages from failing to repair leaks, are going to eat any initial saving compared to issuing lower end iPhones. To do even better, use say second-hand refurb iPhones. Entire family except me (Sony phone that was free to me (given to us as an insurer replacement unit for one of the kids' earlier phones) so keep it running) here runs on those -- children have had theirs for some years now, and they're still pristine. Apple still ships updates to them.Specmaster wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 11:00 am The same thing might apply here with our military, I'm not sure but it is most certainly Android appears to be the phone of choice by companies.
Personally, I think that a far greater risk to companies, regardless of what mobile platform they use, is that risk that comes from hackers, hacking into another companies network and exposing their passwords. I regularly get emails from companies who have been hacked, that my details may have been leaked, usually followed by a warning from Google that my password may be compromised at xyz company and recommending that I should change my password there and anywhere else that I may have used the same password.mansaxel wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 7:24 amThe companies issuing Android phones and running business critical software on them (a web browser is critical, as is email.) and not fencing them in, extremely so, are simply tipping the scales heavily towards short-time cost cutting measures that are going to hurt them in the long run. The Android ecosystem is so full of holes that the costs of running in it, and the damages from failing to repair leaks, are going to eat any initial saving compared to issuing lower end iPhones. To do even better, use say second-hand refurb iPhones. Entire family except me (Sony phone that was free to me (given to us as an insurer replacement unit for one of the kids' earlier phones) so keep it running) here runs on those -- children have had theirs for some years now, and they're still pristine. Apple still ships updates to them.Specmaster wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2023 11:00 am The same thing might apply here with our military, I'm not sure but it is most certainly Android appears to be the phone of choice by companies.
And how do you think they get in? Not uncommonly by means of jumping through the on-call tech and his Special Android with Special Access.Specmaster wrote: ↑Mon Jul 24, 2023 7:48 am
Personally, I think that a far greater risk to companies, regardless of what mobile platform they use, is that risk that comes from hackers, hacking into another companies network and exposing their passwords.
