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Anovoca wrote:no camera phones is a bit rough, could you get away with a regular smart phone if the case hid the camera?
My answer kinda of goes against what you're asking, but my ideal phone would probably be a Nokia Lumia 930 (windows phone with denim firmware) with a removable battery, better thermals, glance, a microSD card slot and compatibility with T-mobile's LTE.
kvndoom wrote:Anovoca wrote:no camera phones is a bit rough, could you get away with a regular smart phone if the case hid the camera?
Naw not worth taking the chance. Security guards, supervisors, anyone, can request to inspect your phone at any time. If you refuse you can get fired. If they see it has a camera, you will get fired.
Everybody knows that the last non-camera "smart" phone in the US was the Blackberry Bold, so if it isn't a Blackberry it's very likely to get questioned. I'd have to buy something natively camera free.
kvndoom wrote:Anovoca wrote:no camera phones is a bit rough, could you get away with a regular smart phone if the case hid the camera?
Naw not worth taking the chance. Security guards, supervisors, anyone, can request to inspect your phone at any time. If you refuse you can get fired. If they see it has a camera, you will get fired.
Everybody knows that the last non-camera "smart" phone in the US was the Blackberry Bold, so if it isn't a Blackberry it's very likely to get questioned. I'd have to buy something natively camera free.
Ryhadar wrote:My answer kinda of goes against what you're asking, but my ideal phone would probably be a Nokia Lumia 930 (windows phone with denim firmware) with a removable battery, better thermals, glance, a microSD card slot and compatibility with T-mobile's LTE.
Anovoca wrote:I know what you mean. My last phone was an HTC 1x and I felt its biggest downfalls were its lack of an sd card slot (or just more internal memory) and the battery. That and verizon not pushing 8.1, but windows developer program fixed that .
localhostrulez wrote:kvndoom wrote:Anovoca wrote:no camera phones is a bit rough, could you get away with a regular smart phone if the case hid the camera?
Naw not worth taking the chance. Security guards, supervisors, anyone, can request to inspect your phone at any time. If you refuse you can get fired. If they see it has a camera, you will get fired.
Everybody knows that the last non-camera "smart" phone in the US was the Blackberry Bold, so if it isn't a Blackberry it's very likely to get questioned. I'd have to buy something natively camera free.
What defines having a camera? What if you get a normal smartphone and bring it to work, but (as silly as this sounds) visibly destroy the camera so that it isn't actually usable?
notfred wrote:The BlackBerry Bold had a camera on it, it was just that they could shut off the camera from the BES. I think that's true if you have a new BB10 device running on the new BES12.
I like BB10 as an OS, my ideal phone would be one of the large screen Android phablet things with monster battery and octo-cores but running BB10. BB10 already has the ability to run Android Apps on it, plus the BB10 Hub and BBM so it's most of the way there, they just need to update support to the latest Android version and add support for the Google APIs that Google has locked down and it would run every Android app.
Beelzebubba9 wrote:I'd love an iPhone 6 running 64bit Lollipop.
Never going to happen, but all I've ever really wanted was an iPhone running Android....
drsauced wrote:Pretty happy with an unlocked Nexus 6 on T-Mobile here. Once you're unlocked, the freedom to load whatever image, albeit Android only, is pretty nice. If I had to get a new phone right away I'd still choose either a Nexus 5 or 6 and have at it.
One thing that drove me away from Verizon was the locked phones. With my last two droids, I always got the feeling they were borked in a way that made you keep thinking something intentionally wasn't working right. And then the hopes of a fix get squashed in an update that actually made the phones worse. I'm a consumer, not a cash cow! The other two persistent problems being expensive and, at least in the Bay Area, slow data speeds for Verizon. I'm truly satisfied with T-Mo and a Nexus.
Anovoca wrote:Closest for me would probably be a Sony Z3c on Verizon, but at T-mobile pricing.Recent post about market shares (http://techreport.com/news/27864/idc-wi ... -last-year) raised an interesting question. If all things were equal and you were not at the mercy of what makers and carriers provided for you, what combination of Phone, Phone OS, and carrier would you choose. Assume for your answer that you could get any OS on any phone hardware and have it on any carrier's network.
kvndoom wrote:Ah sorry, I had a different Bold model that did have a camera, thought you were talking about that.notfred wrote:The BlackBerry Bold had a camera on it, it was just that they could shut off the camera from the BES. I think that's true if you have a new BB10 device running on the new BES12.
No, I have disassembled a 9930 non-camera and it has no lens or flash. Those are actually modular parts, so the non-cam phones have two empty sockets.