Me: I'd like a new phone please.
Manufacturer: Okay, what do you look for in a phone?
Me: Well as long as the other specs are good, it's important to have a headphone port, SD card slot, and removable battery.
Manufacturer: Okay, fingerprint scanner. Got it.
Me: What?
Manufacturer: The only thing you want is a fingerprint scanner?
Me: No I don't care about that, what I want is-
Manufacturer: A fingerprint scanner, we know. Every device needs one.
Me: But-
Manufacturer: Shhh... Don't worry, we know our customers.

The phones with more memory are more expensive and companies are greedy.

The non removable battery is for security.

The lack of headphones jack is a stupid try to make “the phone of the future”.

Wait... non removable batteries are "for security"?
Security of what?

A thief steals your phone and if he can’t remove the battery the phone will be still traceable.

I'm the only one who hates sd cards?

@just-basic-user Yeah, but what about when you have to change or remove the battery?

@Gaetano96 I use hairdryer for older phones and for my main device I go to a service.

@just-basic-user Hairdryer?? Really, that works? Wow..

Well okay, fair enough... I'm kind of in the same boat now that I have a Huawei P9

@Gaetano96 I used hairdryer on Sony and Samsung tablet from 2013 and it works but I won’t use it on my iPhone.

@just-basic-user theatrical security

@just-basic-user //typing with the very modular LGV10 noises//

@BikeHead In the world. Yes.

Fingerprint scanners in home buttons, please die. I seriously put a sticker or something over those fuckers. Google, stay the fuck away from my biometric data!

@linuxxx I will be happy if the government collected dna samples and fingerprints from every newborn.
This way it will be easier to catch criminals and if you are not criminal then there won’t be any problems for you.

@Jop- Well I'm not sure about that but seeing that they could easily and since Google tries to collect as much data as possible, although I can't prove it, I don't trust those devices with my biometric data. (I mean smartphones in general with that)

@just-basic-user Not sure if sarcasm or not...

@Jop- Well in the beginning of your android setup you can choose to sync your WiFi password with the cloud...

On the other hand, there's also a thing called malware that stealthy could collect that stuff!

@Jop- Yeah thought so but just confirming 😅. And as for my comment towards you, whatya think?

I actually decided to try ordering a phone from China yesterday, very curious how it'll turn out.. specs are pretty good, but I can't shake the feeling something will be fucky with it..

Meh, it's fairly cheap, if it's shit lesson learnt (learned?) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

http://volumerate.com/product/...

@Jop- Damn timing. Well since you said that Google collects everything for advertisement purposes haha. But yeah this could become and endless discussion so let's agree to disagree :)

@just-basic-user There will be problems with that, because of this thing called privacy. It's a basic human right if I'm not mistaken.

@SpectralKH Yes I know, I am saying this for myself but why people may have problem with this if they are not going to rob a bank for example.

@Jop-
Unfortunately, my local MP (British government representative) actually says that seriously.

@just-basic-user
Um... Because people might perhaps not want all their data shared all over the place without any transparency or oversight whatsoever?

@osmarks It’s well known that our data is more precious than us but I don’t think that the government will sell us.

@just-basic-user
Having piles of valuable data stored in some centralised location is basically asking to go wrong.

@osmarks With that much data security should be good and it won’t be in one location, maybe in a lot of servers.

@Jop- There laws are very discriminating and old. I mean data collection in some modern society like West European countries.

@Jop- @just-basic-user You can see how secure the NSA can keep their data from the shadow brokers incident, yes.
Other than that the problem that the data is there and (although for now unlawfully), the US govt can do anything with it what they'd want.

Through programs like PRISM (siphons data directly from the major 14-15 I thought companies) the NSA directly taps into the data streams of companies like Google, FB, Skype, MS, Yahoo and so on (snowden leaks) so I think it's just a matter of time before data gets (ab)used somewhere.

@Jop- Yeah I know! But too badly it also goes for google, fb, Twitter etc etc :/

@Jop- They've got (i forgot the exact name) some kind of gag orders for all prism participants :/