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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

only if phones can be like thinkpads which you can easily remove say the audio card from its motherboard.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Then how would you use it as a phone?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'd love a "phone" that was just a mobile internet-connected device. I very rarely use it as an actual phone, primarily just for text, email, and web browsing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but minus the game boy screen and the stylus

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 3 months ago

I kind of like the stylus idea. More precise than sausage fingers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Connect a headset via 3.5mm jack or Bluetooth Snowden explains how in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRWyGKBVzo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

You text like a normal person

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

suggesting that phones should be made more like that somehow. though from another comment it seems hard to remove hidden hardwares.

why didn't i see this in my inbox...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter if the spyware is hardware installed in your SOCs!

Good ol Lenovo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

ok yeah, can you do better though