| SuperMatt | morning all | 07:40 |
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| foobarry | https://www.gearbest.com/cell-phones/pp_600562.html?wid=4&utm_source=mail_api&utm_medium=mail&utm_campaign=GB_special_171125_1511607696&eo=qg9sGukAVhqbdBHM | 09:00 |
| foobarry | really cheap phone. does it suck as much as price suggests? | 09:01 |
| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 09:02 |
| zmoylan-pi | i hope that 16gb rom means 16gb internal storage... | 09:05 |
| zmoylan-pi | i have had a few ~100 phones. prepay jobbies on tescomobile... they work ok, for what they are. i use them as media players for podcasts and downloads. 1-2 games, 1-2 apps. nothing special. not great battery life. some shovelware | 09:06 |
| diddledan | what's wrong with my tellingbone?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2A8q3XIhu0 | 19:08 |
| daftykins | we used to have such a museum :( | 19:12 |
| ali1234 | the worst thing is when they play a catchy tune but interrupt it every 5 seconds with "we will answer your call soon" | 19:18 |
| daftykins | yip :) | 19:19 |
| ali1234 | and speaking of compression. i did some back-of-the-envelope calculations the other day and it turns out that with modern codecs, voice comms are cheaper if i use internet data than make a call | 19:20 |
| ali1234 | based on 3p/minute for calling and 1p/megabyte for data | 19:21 |
| ali1234 | it's like 10x cheaper in fact | 19:21 |
| daftykins | *nod* so often the case | 19:23 |
| ali1234 | its mainly due to inertia but it could lead to a sudden change in the way people use smartphones soon i think | 19:24 |
| diddledan | that's why a lot of companies bundle free calling minutes | 19:29 |
| ali1234 | well... the thing is that with the old codecs specified by the standards calling is appropriately priced. it's just that modern codecs use less data | 19:30 |
| diddledan | it works out better if they keep you calling on the voice network via subscription minutes than using voip | 19:30 |
| ali1234 | it doesn't though :) | 19:30 |
| diddledan | foor them I mean | 19:31 |
| ali1234 | no, not for them | 19:31 |
| ali1234 | it costs about the same | 19:31 |
| ali1234 | in terms of "data used" | 19:31 |
| diddledan | monetarily | 19:32 |
| ali1234 | perhaps | 19:32 |
| diddledan | they earn more per minute of calling if they get you to use voice gsm | 19:32 |
| ali1234 | but it also increases the infrastructure costs | 19:33 |
| diddledan | with 4G there's VoLTE coming down the pipe soonish which means it'll all be the same pipe (data/IP-based) rsther than voicevs data | 19:35 |
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