So since I currently don't have a computer to type my posts on with a keyboard, my phone has to do for now.
Believe it or not, I got this phone completely free at an event they had at the DSS office. You showed your disability credentials and an I.D., make an account with a provider, and there's your shiny new brick to catch Pokemon with/collect elemental dragons with/fling birds at pigs with/import gameboy games from Japan with.
There's a few things holding it back.
1. Tiny Keyboard: The keyboard isn't too small that you can't type at all, and it does have swipe recognition, but it has the nasty habit of being too sensitive at times, so sometimes you'll tap one key that will highlight and just as you let go it will slide over three other letters. It autocorrects a lot of errors you make but sometimes even that gets confused, and will sometimes correct actual words that aren't always used into completely unrelated ones. Ugh.
2. Topsy Turvy Mode: If you turn on auto-rotate, you can turn the screen on its side to watch videos in a better resolution... But the darn thing is so sensitive that sometimes you want to watch a video cabaret-cabinet upright (like an arcade machine) , and if you turn it even 12 degrees left or right it will think "Oh, I'm on my side" and flip around.
3. Gimme A Piece O That KitKat OS CPU Speed: Since this phone came from a government company its a "generic" model that runs on the old-as-methusela KitKat version of Android OS. You'd think it'd be abje to run a decent speed, but not when you find out it will freeze, hang, softlock, superlag, and caramelag at something as minute and simple as RECEIVING A PHONE CALL OR WAKING THE PHONE FROM THE LOCK SCREEN. Speaking of, sometimes when its lagging, and you wake it from lockscreen, it will take it's sweet time deciding to go back to being operational. Anywhere from 10 minutes to AN HOUR! (I cannot fake that happening. I literally had to wait an hour for my phone to stop being defiant, it actually got me in trouble with the homeless shelter I was staying at; they had a rule that nobody was allowed to use their phone inside the shelter, heaven knows why, and I had to call my parents for something. It was off, so I had to boot it up. When the kernel finally came to (the part of the OS that tells it to do things), it was already dinner time. Derrick, one of the people working there, had the guts to assume I was "stalling for something".) It doesn't matter if you're playing a game, listening to music (GOD HELP YOU IF IT LAGS THEN), posting on Facebook or even opening the friggin' home screen, if it decides it wants to slow down, youre screwed. Keep in mind this was from a freshly wiped phone I got free, that had zero apps on it other than Facebook, Instagram(why?) Messenger and YouTube and all Google's stuff, which was preinstalled. No viruses. No malware. It was fresh out the box. I didn't even have to pay for it.
4. Wait, That's Not A Rare Summon!: You know those puzzle games on Google Play that let you collect heroes/dragons to battle with by matching gems? They work like RPGs, and when you're not in a dungeon, you can spend gold/gems to "summon" heroes/dragons without having to play missions to capture them, and they usually have tiers of summoning characters, with the stronger tiers being more expensive to summon. Normal summons give you generic units, Heroic summons give you stronger units, Rare, Super Rare and Ultra Rare Summons give you units that don't appear very often in normal play and Legendary summons give you characters you'd only really find in boss raids. Cool, right? Well, your phone HAS to have a constant, stable connection to even play the game at all, and if it drops during a dungeon or something that you have to sit there for, you lose all progress of that and have to start over somehow.
So, my little sister discovered Puzzle and Dragons once, it's a game like i described above, with the main creature type being dragons, her favorite creature type, among other Not-Pokemon to collect. Over the years and because she's telepathic and can feel me walking toward her from four rooms over, she has nearly mastered matching colored marbles to make monsters fight. I mean, her play time in the game's Endless Corridor dungeon, which spans 50 levels, is near over three hours. I can't survive four levels in that dungeon. The thing about this dungeon is that unlike the normal ones, you can keep what you capture upon KO'ing. Well, Sophia had worked her way up to one of the single most powerful monsters to have in the game; I forgot its name but I think it was like a two-headed dragon with black and purple scales surrounded by indigo flames and energy fields. She got really excited at this and wanted to make it as strong as possible. The game has a "fusion" system where you can take monsters you don't use in your party and absorb them into one you want to keep to increase their stats and level. She had a bunch of "carbuncle" monsters left over and I showed her how to tell the game to fuse them (she wasn't entirely familiar with PnD's UI).
Upon starting the fusion process, the game crashed. Not just the whole game; the entire phone cycled itself and rebooted. Ye gods.
We returned to the game to find that the account we used had no knowledge of ever going into that dungeon. Curse you, KitKat...
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Believe it or not, I got this phone completely free at an event they had at the DSS office. You showed your disability credentials and an I.D., make an account with a provider, and there's your shiny new brick to catch Pokemon with/collect elemental dragons with/fling birds at pigs with/import gameboy games from Japan with.
There's a few things holding it back.
1. Tiny Keyboard: The keyboard isn't too small that you can't type at all, and it does have swipe recognition, but it has the nasty habit of being too sensitive at times, so sometimes you'll tap one key that will highlight and just as you let go it will slide over three other letters. It autocorrects a lot of errors you make but sometimes even that gets confused, and will sometimes correct actual words that aren't always used into completely unrelated ones. Ugh.
2. Topsy Turvy Mode: If you turn on auto-rotate, you can turn the screen on its side to watch videos in a better resolution... But the darn thing is so sensitive that sometimes you want to watch a video cabaret-cabinet upright (like an arcade machine) , and if you turn it even 12 degrees left or right it will think "Oh, I'm on my side" and flip around.
3. Gimme A Piece O That KitKat OS CPU Speed: Since this phone came from a government company its a "generic" model that runs on the old-as-methusela KitKat version of Android OS. You'd think it'd be abje to run a decent speed, but not when you find out it will freeze, hang, softlock, superlag, and caramelag at something as minute and simple as RECEIVING A PHONE CALL OR WAKING THE PHONE FROM THE LOCK SCREEN. Speaking of, sometimes when its lagging, and you wake it from lockscreen, it will take it's sweet time deciding to go back to being operational. Anywhere from 10 minutes to AN HOUR! (I cannot fake that happening. I literally had to wait an hour for my phone to stop being defiant, it actually got me in trouble with the homeless shelter I was staying at; they had a rule that nobody was allowed to use their phone inside the shelter, heaven knows why, and I had to call my parents for something. It was off, so I had to boot it up. When the kernel finally came to (the part of the OS that tells it to do things), it was already dinner time. Derrick, one of the people working there, had the guts to assume I was "stalling for something".) It doesn't matter if you're playing a game, listening to music (GOD HELP YOU IF IT LAGS THEN), posting on Facebook or even opening the friggin' home screen, if it decides it wants to slow down, youre screwed. Keep in mind this was from a freshly wiped phone I got free, that had zero apps on it other than Facebook, Instagram(why?) Messenger and YouTube and all Google's stuff, which was preinstalled. No viruses. No malware. It was fresh out the box. I didn't even have to pay for it.
4. Wait, That's Not A Rare Summon!: You know those puzzle games on Google Play that let you collect heroes/dragons to battle with by matching gems? They work like RPGs, and when you're not in a dungeon, you can spend gold/gems to "summon" heroes/dragons without having to play missions to capture them, and they usually have tiers of summoning characters, with the stronger tiers being more expensive to summon. Normal summons give you generic units, Heroic summons give you stronger units, Rare, Super Rare and Ultra Rare Summons give you units that don't appear very often in normal play and Legendary summons give you characters you'd only really find in boss raids. Cool, right? Well, your phone HAS to have a constant, stable connection to even play the game at all, and if it drops during a dungeon or something that you have to sit there for, you lose all progress of that and have to start over somehow.
So, my little sister discovered Puzzle and Dragons once, it's a game like i described above, with the main creature type being dragons, her favorite creature type, among other Not-Pokemon to collect. Over the years and because she's telepathic and can feel me walking toward her from four rooms over, she has nearly mastered matching colored marbles to make monsters fight. I mean, her play time in the game's Endless Corridor dungeon, which spans 50 levels, is near over three hours. I can't survive four levels in that dungeon. The thing about this dungeon is that unlike the normal ones, you can keep what you capture upon KO'ing. Well, Sophia had worked her way up to one of the single most powerful monsters to have in the game; I forgot its name but I think it was like a two-headed dragon with black and purple scales surrounded by indigo flames and energy fields. She got really excited at this and wanted to make it as strong as possible. The game has a "fusion" system where you can take monsters you don't use in your party and absorb them into one you want to keep to increase their stats and level. She had a bunch of "carbuncle" monsters left over and I showed her how to tell the game to fuse them (she wasn't entirely familiar with PnD's UI).
Upon starting the fusion process, the game crashed. Not just the whole game; the entire phone cycled itself and rebooted. Ye gods.
We returned to the game to find that the account we used had no knowledge of ever going into that dungeon. Curse you, KitKat...
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