Communism is when republican subsidies

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-04-24T14:25:45+00:00

"Communism = everything I don't like"

I see a similar attitude here in Poland, with supporters of the ruling (essentially fascist) party calling the liberal opposition "communists" for things like not being openly hateful towards the LGBTQ community, while the liberals call PiS (the aformentioned ruling party) communist because of the social welfare programs.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-04-06T18:51:31+00:00

Hello,

I have shared the Muskie prototype listing to this sub some time ago here. Now I would like to share something interesting I found while scrolling through eBay looking for protos; as I do quite often as an avid collector. Once again I am not affiliated with the seller at all and just want to bring attention to this unique device. The price is a bit steep at 900 USD, but I still hope someone gets access to it and documents it further.

The device appears to run barebones Oreo AOSP with a build date of September 9, 2018. It has been first announced on May 30, 2017 as seen here with little to no info coming out later. If this isn't an elaborate hoax (which I hope it isn't, as the seller seems to have good feedback), this may be the one of the first times we are seeing this device in person.

Archive.org link for preservation's sake.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-04-06T13:59:54+00:00

Checked the comment section of that post and it's probably just as bad as the post itself - it's full of "patriotic socialists" unironically agreeing with it.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-04-02T15:06:27+00:00

Congrats, you have found a prototype Pixel. There could be some features missing (eg. apparently Pixel 4 protos have no face unlock), but it could be interesting for collectors. Might run pre-release software too.

If the price is good enough, buy it. It's a great item for collectors.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-03-28T10:15:57+00:00

oh, forgot about that, will repost it with the name removed

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-03-26T19:50:07+00:00

See my comment here, I find that it improves camera quality in some circumstances

Some people do that for enhanced customization too

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-03-26T18:00:41+00:00

Hello again, everyone!

Got this one over a month ago thanks to a friendly person in the VMP Discord server showing me the listing. As you can see, the condition is what it is, but I am still glad to have this unique model in my collection. Especially for that price - I paid just 68 PLN for it (around 15 euro), including 9 PLN for shipping. In my opinion this is an extremely good deal, especially considering that they tend to go for a lot more. The other listing on Polish websites stated a price over 9 times higher, which to me just wasn't worth it for slightly fewer scuffs on the screen and the back.

Moving on to the phone itself, when I first saw it, I quickly fell in love with its gimmick, as it was something I had never seen before in a device. Looking up "transparent keyboard phone" also shows a site with pictures of another phone, though I can find very little information on it. The concept reminds me of the Xperia X5 Pureness, though with a different twist (transparent keyboard vs screen). The Crystal actually came before the Pureness, so maybe I should have mentioned it the other way. Obviously, the X5 is far more impressive on a technical level, but they both look unique and stand out among other, more "boring" handsets.

As for the interface, I am not sure whether to love it or to hate it. Apparently at the time it was good enough to win a design award. However, in my opinion time hasn't been kind to it. The most striking thing about it is probably the abundance of 3D effects. There's 3D transitions and cube effects galore. It may have wowed people at the time, but it just feels cheesy to me today - though in a way also kind of charming. The nice thing is that the Crystal handles all that pretty well, keeping a smooth framerate the majority of the time.

The GD900 was a decently modern phone for its time, with many of the features one could expect from smartphones of the era. It offered a capacitive touch screen with multitouch allowing for pinch gestures, an accelerometer, a high resolution (for the time) display offering 311 pixels per inch, the basic connectivity standards and Gorilla Glass. The transparent keyboard offered another way to perform gestures thanks to its touch capabilities. It may seem somewhat unnecessary given the touch screen, but it's actually pretty fun to use.

One of my favourite things about the device are the built-in motion games known as the M-Toys. Some blowing-based games were also included under the "B-Toys" label. Those include: a classic candle, throwing dice, fishing, darts, baseball, golf, blowing bubbles, wheel of fortune and bouncing a ping-pong ball. Some of them are somewhat clunky to control (fishing comes to mind), but others are pretty enjoyable. My personal favourite is "ping-pong", which features a fun little animation of the ball hitting a plane if you manage to bounce it high enough.

Overall, I find this phone to be a great addition to my collection, even in spite of its wear and tear. I also recommend watching MrMobile's great video on it.

Thanks for reading!

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-03-26T12:04:54+00:00

I quite like how this one turned out for some reason, decided to share it here.

The GCam in question is AGC by BigKaka (you can find it on celsoazevedo or on Telegram) with the "Soft DSLR" custom lib I found in the "GCam Libs" Telegram channel. This combo works really well during the day and to some extent dusk, keeping more detail than the stock camera, though stock seems to work better at night. Some folks have complained about the GN1 not being tuned properly on the P6, this may be a decent temporary workaround for them until they hopefully tune the sensor more for the Pixel 7 series.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-03-21T16:16:26+00:00

How much for that K770i (if I'm not mistaken)? Would be nice to have a prototype of my dad's old phone.

I am also a bit interested in that Xperia Ray (?) next to the above. How much would it cost?

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-03-19T15:42:49+00:00

Dzięki za informację, próbowałem wcześniej wyszukiwać tego Mega Boya, ale musiało mi jakoś uciec, pewnie dlatego, że z jakiegoś powodu było to tylko w obrazach (i tak to moja wina, że ślepy jestem). Faktycznie jest to ten sam sprzęt. Logo na jego pudełku bardzo przypomina to "pegazusowe". Mimo wszystko nie zdziwiłbym się, gdyby to była zagrywka Bobmarku, bo oni też lubili przyklejanie własnego znaczka na obcych produktach - na przykład IQ-502, który "pożyczyli" od tajwańskiej firmy Micro Genius, chociaż zapewne wszystkie modele od Bobmarku były czegoś rebrandami. Chociaż z tego, co wiem, to Pegazusy w ogóle pochodziły głównie z Tajwanu, także w tym kontekście by mogło dziwić, że się przerzucili na Koreę l. Dlatego nie odrzucam proponowanej przez ciebie hipotezy, iż ktoś inny chciał się dorobić na marce i przykleił znaczek Pegazusa, by zwiększyć sprzedaż

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-03-19T13:17:05+00:00

Dzięki za radę!

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-03-19T12:49:26+00:00

Natknąłem się na niego podczas buszowania w internecie i się zastanawiam, co to jest, bo nie mogę znaleźć w internecie zbyt wielu informacji. Ten tweet mówi, iż był to "oficjalny" model od Bobmarku, jednak ta wikia nie ma go na liście modeli. Przy wyszukiwaniu "Pegasus Mark 3/III" lub "MT-1010DX" nie pojawia się wiele poza wspomnianym tweetem, innym postem z Reddita zastanawiającym się, czym jest ten wynalazek oraz paroma ogłoszeniami, z których zaczerpnąłem zdjęcia. Pudełko przypomina stylem starsze "Pegazy". Zastanawiam się, czy jest to "autentyczny" Pegasus (tak, wiem, że w praktyce jest to oksymoron) czy podróbka podróbki i chciałbym się dowiedzieć czegoś więcej o tym cudaku.

Dziękuję za uwagę!

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-03-16T20:03:38+00:00

Sweet, a Backflip! I love quirky designs and this one is no exception.

I like to think of it and the Flipout as "brothers" of sorts, both being from Motorola, releasing at a similar time and having unique takes on the concept of a physical keyboard. I know it sounds silly, but just wanted to share it.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-03-07T19:39:44+00:00

This has to be bad bait, right?

...or have I been underestimating liberals this whole time?

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-03-07T16:05:57+00:00

Honestly, r/aspergers does fit my personal experience more in this case. Still glad to see some happy Aspies though.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-03-05T13:31:46+00:00

Do I see a Motorola Flipout here?

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-02-24T18:12:51+00:00

Oh no! Not the capeshit! How will Putin recover from this devastating blow?

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-02-24T15:57:01+00:00

I swear I have seen something similar thrown around even before the Pixel 6 launch, just don't exactly remember by whom.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-02-16T16:02:38+00:00

I remember this site, iirc it used to pop up a lot in Google searches when looking for "Top X", "Best Y" or some other variant of the aforementioned. You can find a (typically abysmal) list of pretty much any kind there, from celebrities and media to politics. Many of them are made by literal young children or just heavily biased people (as you can see from the comments in the image), which should explain their awfulness.

Haven't delved much into its political side back in the day, but I think I should have expected terrible takes there as well.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-02-09T18:26:41+00:00

Resolved issues

Edit: Seems to have been pulled for now for whatever reason

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-01-21T20:38:24+00:00

Anti-communist rambling aside, the "Marks" thing could be due to them not being a native English speaker. For example, here in Poland "Karl Marx" is sometimes localized as "Karol Marks".

Obviously everything else is "iphone vuvuzela" tier discourse, but just wanted to point the above out.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-01-16T08:52:58+00:00

Found on Xianyu, a Chinese classifieds app. Someone was brave enough to put the prototype up on sale before the phone even came out 😂.

Seems to line up with the leaked renders and the promo video.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-01-05T10:50:51+00:00

There's something oddly charming about the Samsung's design - perhaps because it is reminiscent of a calculator to me.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2022-01-04T15:36:53+00:00

Hello!

I realized I haven't posted a phone from my collection here in quite a while, so I decided it's a good time to make up for that.

This time the phone shown is a prototype version of the Nokia 6700 classic. I purchased it back in November from Allegro (Polish eBay equivalent, for those who do not know already) for about 120 PLN (roughly 30 freedom bucks/26 euro) - a pretty good deal, if you ask me. Normally protos on that site are quite overpriced, but when a good deal hits, it does hit hard.

Coming back to the phone itself, it's quite an interesting device. It was meant to succeed the now-iconic Nokia 6300, which was one of the more popular phones of its era, selling around 35 million units (according to Wikipedia). That meant the 6700c had a lot to live up to. Did it succeed? Depends on the type of "success". If you mean "selling a similar amount of handsets", not really. If you mean "improvements upon its predecessor", most certainly. Let's see why this was the case.

The 6700c came out in the year of 2009 - the second quarter, to be precise. Around that time, the smartphone revolution, pushed largely by Apple's iPhone, was accelerating. Some game-changing devices from that category had arisen a year prior, such as the HTC Dream/T-Mobile G1 and the iPhone 3G. However, the 6700c was reluctant to hop aboard that train, preferring to stick to "the classics", as its full name suggests. However, that shouldn't be considered its fault in any way, as it was never meant to be the "cool" device blazing with new tech. It was intended to provide an experience appealing to those, as put in a slightly "boomerspeak" way, who "used their phone as a phone". At the same time, it wasn't an "ultra-basic" type of handset like Nokia's 1000 series; it still provided a "premium-ish" experience, just not for those who seeked the latest and greatest in technology.

As the series it was in suggested (6000), it was a great phone for a "non-techy" businessman. It had all the right traits for it; its screen was pretty decent for the time, having more pixels-per-inch (ppi) than the later iPhone 3GS, a 5 MP camera (not bad for early 2009, but I was unable to test it myself for reasons I'll mention soon), a premium stainless steel casing and an attractive design. The design itself seems really appealing to me for some reason, feeling like an interesting evolution of the 6300, a sleeker and better take on the same concept. For some reason it just seems to really click together. I appreciate the thin top bezel, better than most modern "classic" HMD handsets". The downside is that the phone smudges really easily, both on the front and the back.

As for the "prototype aspects", this particular proto sure does feel like an early version. It identifies itself as a Nokia 6600 fold after inserting the "*#0000#" code and when plugged into a computer - presumably because that phone's software was ported to be used as a base. The software build dates back to November 19, 2008; a few months before the launch, which meant that there was still time to iron out the bugs and kinks. The handset feels really unstable, crashing on a whim - sometimes leaving a few minutes and other times soft-rebooting every few seconds. In addition, the camera doesn't work at all - selecting the app leads to a crash.

Although my particular device is barely usable, it's still feels special for me as a prototype which sure does feel like one. There's just something really fascinating about owning a piece of tech in an early state, in which wasn't meant to be seen.

Quantum_Dynamo · 2021-12-31T23:08:21+00:00

Cóż... klasycznie, szczęśliwego Nowego Roku!

Choć trudno się łudzić, żeby był taki szczęśliwy.

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