Non replaceable batteries benefit android manufacturers as it simplifies manufacturing. And they dont care about repairs post warranty… thats just incentive to buy another one. You dont need a grand conspiracy to explain that.
Non replaceable batteries benefit android manufacturers as it simplifies manufacturing. And they dont care about repairs post warranty… thats just incentive to buy another one.
That was true from 2006-2016 as well, but most Android manufacturers still offered user replaceable batteries. If you believe that there is no correlation- that’s fine. I don’t buy it though, the timing is just too perfect for it to be a coincidence.
You know its a really easy to prove against, right? Just have some basic radio spectrograph to detect any signals coming from a turned off phone.
In reality, the correlation is phones continue to get thinner, making it near impossible to create a battery and battery connector small enough and still be resistant to a 200lb ape handling it.
That actually isn’t a way to prove anything, unfortunately.
A powered off or “powered off” phone wouldn’t need to transmit anything. It would be just waking one of the receivers periodically (or even the NFC could be hit by some radio energy as a trigger) to listen for the “secret” activation code. Listening for radio energy doesn’t generate any.
If the phone was “powered off” - tracing power draw between battery/phone would probably show something, but likely, the phone’s power draw while off is always constant if this were the case and it isn’t a new state the phone goes into.
Even if the phone was being used as an offline bug, the user would still not know because it can record audio/whatever and store it internally without ever transmitting. It’d likely be rigged up to just transmit the next time the user “turns it on” - so they’d be unaware, as the transmission would look like normal traffic.
The only case where it would be traceable from a radio perspective is if it were being used as an online bug, which means it would already have to have been put in the online bug state, which means someone has a reason to monitor you.
I mean shoot, if one really wants to go full tinfoil hat, recording audio to temporary storage at voice quality could go on for days with a phone “powered off” - periodically dumped to somewhere in flash. Hours of conversation could be fit in megabytes. The phone could just always be recording while turned off for every user, and when turned back on, that audio file is sent through the ML processor to convert to text, and then compress the text, further reducing the size. That data could be transmitted during normal usage as voice or compressed data, or just stored in the phone as compressed data for years.
Every phone could be doing this right now, and could have been doing this for a decade, although on-device text transcription is a relatively new feature.
Then, let us go next level: phone recycling/exchange processes also harvest IMEI+that compressed data before being shipped off for resale in the event it was never transmitted. Finally, we know why the NSA has the Utah data center.
I keep asking them to send me copies of recordings of old phone calls, but they never humor me.
DISCLAIMER: This is all non-serious but based on what is technically possible right now.
Just have some basic radio spectrograph to detect any signals coming from a turned off phone.
The claim isn’t that the FBI/NSA/CIA/ICE whoever is doing this constantly to everybody, it’s that they have the capability to do this to anybody, which again isn’t even a question. I’m not really worried about being spied on personally (yet) and even if I were I’d just leave my phone at home or put it in a Faraday bag, I’m not going to carry around a ‘basic radio spectrograph’ and whip it out every time I want to have a private conversation.
In reality, the correlation is phones continue to get thinner
Lol, that’s like saying I lost weight because I bought smaller pants. Yeah, designers are able to make phones thinner when they are able to design around non-replaceable batteries. Was anyone asking for thinner phones? They had the ability to make thinner phones by disallowing replaceable batteries for a decade and did not.
Were consumers demanding that phone manufactures make phones worse by removing useful features like replaceable batteries or headphone jacks- or was these anti-features foisted upon us?
If it had been just some manufactures that switched, or if those manufacturers that did switch had offered the option of different models, some with replaceable batteries and some without, and then consumers chose the worse phones- I might not be as convinced.
As it is now with 99.9% of all phones you can buy not even giving you the option, I’m not buying it.
It’s not like this is some crazy off the wall theory. I’m not saying the Earth is flat or we didn’t land on the moon. We know that the government is using our cell phones to track us, we know they have the capabilities to do so. The only question is did governments (I guarantee it’s not just the U.S) make deals with/ask/or put pressure on manufactures to incentivize the switch. That’s not really far fetched at all.
A. They did not have the ability because doing so would reduced battery capacity because the tech is battery still maturing.
That makes zero sense. How the phone is connected to the battery has no bearing on capacity.
B. Apparently people are asking because people are still buying. Just because me and you arent asking doesnt mean the greater market isnt.
That’s silly. They removed the ability, they didn’t give people a choice. No one was asking, no one chose this.
A. That would mean the entire world is in on the conspiracy.
How would it mean that? The U.S. is a Huge market, China is a huge market It would only take one or two. Plus countries all around the world spy on their own citizens, so it ‘benefits’ their governments even if they weren’t directly responsible. Did you know that in the U.S. Texas makes all of our school textbooks worse because it’s easier just to print the stupid textbooks than print separate ones for just Texas because Texas is such a big market. This is not a conspiracy theory, you can look it up if you are interested.
B. I cant buy a small truck in america.
You can buy small trucks in America. What are you talking about?
Does that mean there is a grand conspiracy?
You are the one that keeps calling this a ‘grand conspiracy’. There are only a handful of phone manufactures, it wouldn’t be that difficult to get them all to agree to something, especially if they were rewarded in some way for it. Corporations only care about money.
thinner phone requires a smaller battery. Smaller battery is smaller capacity.
That’s silly. They removed the ability, they didn’t give people a choice. No one was asking, no one chose this.
Noone asked for phones to copy the iphone… yet here we are.
Did you know that in the U.S. Texas makes all of our school textbooks worse because it’s easier just to print the stupid textbooks than print separate ones for just Texas because Texas is such a big market. This is not a conspiracy theory, you can look it up if you are interested.
So close to getting it… smh
You can buy small trucks in America. What are you talking about?
You can? Show one new model that is the same size of a 1990 ford ranger.
thinner phone requires a smaller battery. Smaller battery is smaller capacity.
Yes, smaller batteries of the same type generally have lower capacity. Very good. That’s not what we were talking about though is it? YOU said that having a non-replaceable battery allowed them to make phones thinner. That is what they had the ability to do for the decade that they were still making phones with replaceable batteries.
Noone asked for phones to copy the iphone
Peter Noone, from Hermans Hermits? Fun trivia. You know who else asked for it, everyone else.
So close to getting it…
Oh, you think you are close to getting it? Well maybe I can help you the rest of the way. If School Text Book manufacturers who were forced to come up with a dumber version of their product to fit the requirements of one large market found it was cheaper just to sell everyone the dumb version instead of making two different versions, it follows that Phone Manufacturers would likewise find it cheaper to sell the dumber version of phones to everyone if one large market required them to make phones dumber. Do you get it now? I can try to dumb it down even more for you if you need me to.
Show one new model that is the same size of a 1990 ford ranger.
The still sell Ford Rangers I’m pretty sure. I’m going to let you do your own Truck shopping.
I said smaller battery and connecters allowed for thinner phones.
And mass production is cheaper than low production. So if all phones are designed the same, then the factories can be tooled all the same accross all models.
People actually did like the form factor and function of iPhones, false equivalency much?
So why are you confused manufacturers are copying Apple?
I’m not going to do your Truck shopping for you. If you can’t figure that out on your own, ask your parents.
But you said they exist… it should be easy. Unless… you were talking out of your ass again.
Non replaceable batteries benefit android manufacturers as it simplifies manufacturing. And they dont care about repairs post warranty… thats just incentive to buy another one. You dont need a grand conspiracy to explain that.
That was true from 2006-2016 as well, but most Android manufacturers still offered user replaceable batteries. If you believe that there is no correlation- that’s fine. I don’t buy it though, the timing is just too perfect for it to be a coincidence.
You know its a really easy to prove against, right? Just have some basic radio spectrograph to detect any signals coming from a turned off phone.
In reality, the correlation is phones continue to get thinner, making it near impossible to create a battery and battery connector small enough and still be resistant to a 200lb ape handling it.
That actually isn’t a way to prove anything, unfortunately.
A powered off or “powered off” phone wouldn’t need to transmit anything. It would be just waking one of the receivers periodically (or even the NFC could be hit by some radio energy as a trigger) to listen for the “secret” activation code. Listening for radio energy doesn’t generate any.
If the phone was “powered off” - tracing power draw between battery/phone would probably show something, but likely, the phone’s power draw while off is always constant if this were the case and it isn’t a new state the phone goes into.
Even if the phone was being used as an offline bug, the user would still not know because it can record audio/whatever and store it internally without ever transmitting. It’d likely be rigged up to just transmit the next time the user “turns it on” - so they’d be unaware, as the transmission would look like normal traffic.
The only case where it would be traceable from a radio perspective is if it were being used as an online bug, which means it would already have to have been put in the online bug state, which means someone has a reason to monitor you.
I mean shoot, if one really wants to go full tinfoil hat, recording audio to temporary storage at voice quality could go on for days with a phone “powered off” - periodically dumped to somewhere in flash. Hours of conversation could be fit in megabytes. The phone could just always be recording while turned off for every user, and when turned back on, that audio file is sent through the ML processor to convert to text, and then compress the text, further reducing the size. That data could be transmitted during normal usage as voice or compressed data, or just stored in the phone as compressed data for years.
Every phone could be doing this right now, and could have been doing this for a decade, although on-device text transcription is a relatively new feature.
Then, let us go next level: phone recycling/exchange processes also harvest IMEI+that compressed data before being shipped off for resale in the event it was never transmitted. Finally, we know why the NSA has the Utah data center.
I keep asking them to send me copies of recordings of old phone calls, but they never humor me.
DISCLAIMER: This is all non-serious but based on what is technically possible right now.
Why would I need to prove it? You didn’t read any of the articles I linked to did you? The fact that they have the ability to do this is not even a question. The government admitted that it was able to do this all the way back in 2006.
The claim isn’t that the FBI/NSA/CIA/ICE whoever is doing this constantly to everybody, it’s that they have the capability to do this to anybody, which again isn’t even a question. I’m not really worried about being spied on personally (yet) and even if I were I’d just leave my phone at home or put it in a Faraday bag, I’m not going to carry around a ‘basic radio spectrograph’ and whip it out every time I want to have a private conversation.
Lol, that’s like saying I lost weight because I bought smaller pants. Yeah, designers are able to make phones thinner when they are able to design around non-replaceable batteries. Was anyone asking for thinner phones? They had the ability to make thinner phones by disallowing replaceable batteries for a decade and did not.
Were consumers demanding that phone manufactures make phones worse by removing useful features like replaceable batteries or headphone jacks- or was these anti-features foisted upon us?
If it had been just some manufactures that switched, or if those manufacturers that did switch had offered the option of different models, some with replaceable batteries and some without, and then consumers chose the worse phones- I might not be as convinced.
As it is now with 99.9% of all phones you can buy not even giving you the option, I’m not buying it.
It’s not like this is some crazy off the wall theory. I’m not saying the Earth is flat or we didn’t land on the moon. We know that the government is using our cell phones to track us, we know they have the capabilities to do so. The only question is did governments (I guarantee it’s not just the U.S) make deals with/ask/or put pressure on manufactures to incentivize the switch. That’s not really far fetched at all.
A. They did not have the ability because doing so would reduced battery capacity because the tech is battery still maturing.
B. Apparently people are asking because people are still buying. Just because me and you arent asking doesnt mean the greater market isnt.
A. That would mean the entire world is in on the conspiracy.
B. I cant buy a small truck in america. Does that mean there is a grand conspiracy?
That makes zero sense. How the phone is connected to the battery has no bearing on capacity.
That’s silly. They removed the ability, they didn’t give people a choice. No one was asking, no one chose this.
How would it mean that? The U.S. is a Huge market, China is a huge market It would only take one or two. Plus countries all around the world spy on their own citizens, so it ‘benefits’ their governments even if they weren’t directly responsible. Did you know that in the U.S. Texas makes all of our school textbooks worse because it’s easier just to print the stupid textbooks than print separate ones for just Texas because Texas is such a big market. This is not a conspiracy theory, you can look it up if you are interested.
You can buy small trucks in America. What are you talking about?
You are the one that keeps calling this a ‘grand conspiracy’. There are only a handful of phone manufactures, it wouldn’t be that difficult to get them all to agree to something, especially if they were rewarded in some way for it. Corporations only care about money.
thinner phone requires a smaller battery. Smaller battery is smaller capacity.
Noone asked for phones to copy the iphone… yet here we are.
So close to getting it… smh
You can? Show one new model that is the same size of a 1990 ford ranger.
Yes, smaller batteries of the same type generally have lower capacity. Very good. That’s not what we were talking about though is it? YOU said that having a non-replaceable battery allowed them to make phones thinner. That is what they had the ability to do for the decade that they were still making phones with replaceable batteries.
Peter Noone, from Hermans Hermits? Fun trivia. You know who else asked for it, everyone else.
Oh, you think you are close to getting it? Well maybe I can help you the rest of the way. If School Text Book manufacturers who were forced to come up with a dumber version of their product to fit the requirements of one large market found it was cheaper just to sell everyone the dumb version instead of making two different versions, it follows that Phone Manufacturers would likewise find it cheaper to sell the dumber version of phones to everyone if one large market required them to make phones dumber. Do you get it now? I can try to dumb it down even more for you if you need me to.
The still sell Ford Rangers I’m pretty sure. I’m going to let you do your own Truck shopping.
I said smaller battery and connecters allowed for thinner phones.
And mass production is cheaper than low production. So if all phones are designed the same, then the factories can be tooled all the same accross all models.
So why are you confused manufacturers are copying Apple?
But you said they exist… it should be easy. Unless… you were talking out of your ass again.