Post AVYsJDNAQuLvIXOfdQ by murph@hackers.town
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 (DIR) Post #AVYqAOCSblhAMc3L8q by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-11T23:42:06Z
       
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       $2000 smartphones are nuts. $1000 smartphones are only half as nuts, but still nuts.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVYqJY9EzUcDp6umyu by TruthSandwich@qoto.org
       2023-05-11T23:43:43Z
       
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       @laurenMy rule: never spend more than $10 on a phone.Corollary: I don’t have a phone.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVYr29p0HZw7PKigSG by theLastTheorist@mastodon.social
       2023-05-11T23:51:54Z
       
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       @lauren In January I tried to buy a $500 smartphone but they told me it was $600. So they sold me a $900 phone for $100 and gave me a $400 watch for free. I'm not even joking.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVYrKbgNR2mT1rTwps by atanas@mastodon.cloud
       2023-05-11T23:55:16Z
       
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       @lauren Look out for street robberies on the rise.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVYrMJQQHp0Cz4phgW by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-11T23:55:24Z
       
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       @theLastTheorist Yeah, the lunacy around carrier-linked discounts and such is dramatic.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVYrRqjlrPHdkPWUxk by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-11T23:56:37Z
       
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       @atanas They're not terribly useful in most cases after being stolen, since they can be pretty effectively disabled remotely in many cases. Not to say there aren't elaborate workarounds for the really skilled crooks.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVYrX1EgFq99kwRhZI by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-11T23:57:32Z
       
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       @atanas However, usually they just need them long enough to try extract cryptocurrency wallets and such if they can unlock a weak lock.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVYranFUCRpVXCceJM by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-11T23:58:15Z
       
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       @theLastTheorist BTW, who was "they" in this case?
       
 (DIR) Post #AVYrwb87wBHIJtZrXs by theLastTheorist@mastodon.social
       2023-05-12T00:02:09Z
       
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       @lauren This was Verizon, but I think the deal was that Google was basically buying out iPhones to get people on their system. I had a broken 3-year-old XR, which was good for $800 off the Pixel 7 Pro. (All I had wanted was an old Pixel 6a.) The Google watch was a last minute thing but it's such a bad product that it's worse less than $0 (certainly less than the $5/month connection fee).
       
 (DIR) Post #AVYsJDNAQuLvIXOfdQ by murph@hackers.town
       2023-05-12T00:06:09Z
       
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       @lauren I just smashed my phone, so I'll be picking up a $300 pixel 6a to replace it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVYuxxNgzfkjTyCJVo by glent@aus.social
       2023-05-12T00:35:28Z
       
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       @lauren Does the US have a flood of cheapish Chinese phones running pretty much stock Android? Oppo, TCL and so on?
       
 (DIR) Post #AVYwTDR9Rs5CD4Hie8 by stevenray@sfba.social
       2023-05-12T00:52:42Z
       
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       @lauren well I bought an (obviously used) iPhone 8 last week for $120. I don’t need all the bells and whistles. 😊
       
 (DIR) Post #AVYz3CCvhFP2jKuv56 by albert65@social.vivaldi.net
       2023-05-12T01:21:42Z
       
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       @lauren The $180 Motorola G Power I have does everything I need a mobile phone to do!
       
 (DIR) Post #AVZ0bYmGO9JSWtOUYS by briansullivan@mastodon.sdf.org
       2023-05-12T01:39:06Z
       
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       @lauren I buy all my phones. Have never paid more than $250 CDN. UMIDIGI is my current one. I find the prices of premium phones ridiculous as well.