Notices by Warlock Of Wires (warlockofwires@techhub.social)

@niconiconi @lanodan I've always had a phobia of the screen touch input circuitry being the route of ESD...

@aral unfortunately this is not the status quo for software engineers I wish far more of them would take their jobs as serious as these two do about the responsibilities they have when it comes to that title..

As a electrical engineer I refuse to make weapons that harm people I didn't spend eight years in college to kill someone. I'd rather save lives and preserve people's rights...

@tek_dmn @rose frankly I'm glad they're gone because when they fail they tend to Scuttle the entire audio circuitry of a cell phone.
Between engineering jobs I spent two years at Fry's Electronics as part of their service team and I hate it fixing jacks.

There's no easy way as an end user to bypass a broken headphone jack auto-sensing circuitry.. tip broke off in phone. Oh well!

Once manufacturers give us a real audio control panel then I will welcome them back..

@wonka @tek_dmn @rose

https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-xcover/buy/?modelCode=SM-G736UZKEXAA&cid=pla-ecomm-pfs-mob-us-google-na-04012022-170123-&ds_e=GOOGLE-cr:0-pl:264703705-&ds_c=FF~Other+Phones_CN~HHP+Other+Phones+PMax_ID~B000105M_PH~long_MK~us_BS~mx_PR~smart_SB~multi_FS~hqloe_CA~smp_KS~npla_MT~na-&ds_ag=-&ds_k=&gad=1&gclsrc=ds&gclsrc=ds

It ended up being too big for my use case I like small phones on the Galaxy s10e but I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this phone. It appears to be kind of like a Hidden Gem. It's a shame they don't take this product line and make it more consumer available...

At the very least the battery doesn't require any tools to replace and that's already a huge step forward relative to everything from the past 5 years

@wonka

A quick search does not mention anything about an IP rating..

I spend a lot of my time in the Cascadia region of the USA where things get really wet so I need to have a phone that's going to withstand hours of downpouring rain in my pocket...

Right now I use a caterpillar s22 flip that I've picked up to replace my Galaxy s22 Samsung. I super like this flip phone because it runs normal Android