- I hate when people say this. Very untrue. Samsung makes the vast majority of their phones in Vietnam, for example. It’s pretty damn easy to find one not Made in China if you do 5 seconds of searching.
Comment on Huawei anti-porn filter may be active non-Chinese devices. [DISCUSSION]
LemmysMum@lemmy.world 8 months ago-
Everything is made in China.
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Affordability, there’s a reason I’m using a 5 year old sub AU$500 smartphone.
3 Suitability. It works well, has all the functionality I need.
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Strong consumer protections and tech watchdogs in Australia generally have our backs with electronics.
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China adjacent 5 eyes country under the yoke of the US military industrial complex; my data is balls deep in a dozen intelligence agencies anyway.
Downsides: No tap pay.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 8 months ago
LackingC10H12N2O@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My phone is made in Vietnam.
Green_Bay_Guy@midwest.social 8 months ago
My wife, too. If you don’t mind me asking, what manufacturer?
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Libertarian guys with asian wives moment
dannoffs@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Yikes
Green_Bay_Guy@midwest.social 8 months ago
The phone www.vsmart.net
LackingC10H12N2O@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s a Samsung Galaxy S8.
Green_Bay_Guy@midwest.social 8 months ago
We have a Samsung plant in Thai Nguyen in the north. Very cool, I didn’t know they’d been putting phones out for that long.
ripcord@kbin.social 8 months ago
At least in the US I bought a pretty nice 18 month old Motorola without a bunch of crap on jt for $150.
afunkysongaday@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Motorola Mobility LLC, marketed as Motorola, is an American consumer electronics manufacturer primarily producing smartphones and other mobile devices running Android. Headquartered at Merchandise Mart in Chicago, Illinois, it is a subsidiary of the Chinese multinational technology company Lenovo.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 8 months ago
“Made in China” and “Made by China” are different.
Used phones are good and cheap. Profit because other people are greedy.
Most phones “work well”. That’s not a reason to choose a bad phone.
The consumer protections are the same for all phones. That’s not a difference between different companies.
This is just you saying you don’t care about these privacy issues. But you made this post???
You’re confused about what you want and think Huawei is a good deal. You are being unnecessarily cheap.
LemmysMum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Be more mad that you bought a garbage Chinese phone then, lol
LemmysMum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s actually been a very good Chinese phone that has outlasted the last 3 Samsungs of my brother and mother. But I think I still reserve the right to be annoyed by invasive messaging that shouldn’t be on the device as sold in my country.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Do you not know how to buy used phones? You can get a Samsung Galaxy S21 for under $500 AUD right now:
…com.au/…/09d5241f-7485-409a-9ed5-28e0c274259d#l=…
There are plenty of phones under $500, you just chose a bad one:
…com.au/…/e85ce098-7f65-4e20-9672-c09bfc2c0ed2#ba…
LemmysMum@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cool. Buy me one.