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13 minutes ago, ignis said:

most expensive Android phone available  I notice  is the Z flip Galaxy @ 59,900 baht at AIS  but at Samsung Thailand  online Galaxy Z Fold ฿65- ฿75,900.00   ??

 

My Vivo 3,200 baht phone is over 4 years old and has been perfect until about a month ago, could not  hear anything . only with the speaker on, then the beep sound for messages stopped, last weekend the speaker started missing words = went to the shop.....  They had a number of brand new phones which had not sold in the back room.....  So went with the Samsung Galaxy J7 Pro, they unpacked it and undated it so is on Android 10 + transferred everything from the old phone = total cost 2,499 baht.. 

 

Always worth asking it the have any unsold phones and get a deal

The samsung J7 pro had it last security update in the first quarter of 2021. It hasn't had any updates since. Hope you are not doing anything secure on it, like banking, or reading your email. 

2 hours ago, Moonlover said:

 

The photos clearly indicate otherwise. How did they manage to retrieve the shoe so easily? Which I might add, looks remarkably undamaged to me.

 

Witness's are notoriously unreliable. Ask any policeman. 

49 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

The images appear to show the shoelaces jammed in the comb.

Go to sanook.com, they have a video there of the woman in the photo trying to pry the shoe loose. It clearly shows the bottom of the shoe is stuck, and not the laces. Score one for the witness! 

https://www.sanook.com/news/9020310/

The monitor listed in that specs Pic is a MSI g24c4. On lazada a new one sells for right around 4k.

5 minutes ago, stevenl said:

She exited Thailand via the arrivals hall of Phuket airport?

Ah nvm, I misread the article. She was flying into Thailand. 

On 9/1/2023 at 10:11 PM, The Theory said:

Holding in her hands, both pp (in the photo). But what could be her game, that's the question ????.

She was trying to exit Thailand under someone else's pp, which means she was afraid to use her own. My guess is that she is wanted (or she herself suspects she is wanted) for some kind of crime in Thailand. 

It wouldn't have anything to do with her being wanted in China. If that's the case, she would exit Thailand with her real pp, and enter China with the illegal one. 

1 hour ago, LALes said:

Make sure its a reputable seller with lots of reviews.  I got scammed last year on a Lazada phone purchase.  Lost 10,000 baht.  Lazada will NOT back you up if you get scammed on their website unless it says Laz Mall Shop.

Yes, the issue with lazada isn't so much the platform itself. It's the individual sellers. There are scammers on lazada. For a high value item, I would only buy from a well known, well established, well reviewed Lazmall shop. 

8 minutes ago, recom273 said:

Cheers. The P5 5G (Bramble) is still on the supported list. This the one I was thinking about, but this might be another reason with the price difference, I will need to check, cheers.

 

I still might take a punt, like I say, it's more of an experiment. Im quite keen to give the OS a whirl, and its just a stop gap, when im back at my desk and not bouncing phones on the concrete then I will buy an iPhone.

 

With regard to iPhone, my whole house is setup around the whole ecosphere, so inevitably buy another, price per month isnt really too much concern - The biggest thing stopping me from going to a privacy based android OS for a mobile phone is CarPlay, I hate android car, my navidrome streaming app is perfect for my needs, im reluctant to change - My first phone was a 3GS and the second one an iPhone 11. So cant grumble at that, the 3GS served its purpose although was unsupported towards the end.

This bring back memories. I had a iphone 3G waaaaaay back. Bought it used for around 100 usd. It was a good phone, but cannot imagine using it for 8 (!) years. 

I moved onto a Samsung Note 2 a couple years later, because I needed to keep 2 sims active, and that phone was one of the few higher end phones that did that then. Paid a whopping 930 usd for it, kept it for 5 years, until I sat on it and the screen bent and cracked. 

1 hour ago, recom273 said:

Cheers, I’m not too serious about it, like I mentioned, this is more of an experiment with GrapheneOS.

 

But that is rather bad, posters in this forum are so quick to come down on apple products but a 2 year old android phone isn’t worth buying because it doesn’t receive security updates?? My iPhone 11 is from 2019 and still a good phone, it’s just hasn’t survived the construction of my house, the screen is cracked and sometimes has a life of its own, which is really embarrassing when trying to pay contractors or the building merchant. 
 

As strange as it sounds, your info might actually persuade me to take the plunge, it may explain why the Chinese phone is 5K and yet Thai sellers are still trying to get 11K, the same price as a pixel 6. With GrapheneOS, I might get a year or two udates or extended support. 

I will probably end up buying a new iPhone in the future, just not when it’s being dropped out my pocket on a regular basis. Cheers for the tip!

 

The grapheneOS website says about the pixel 4a (non 5G version) :

The following devices are end-of-life, no longer receive full security updates and are supported via extended support releases of GrapheneOS:

• Pixel 4a (sunfish)
• Pixel 4 XL (coral)
• Pixel 4 (flame)

We provide extended support releases as a stopgap for users to transition to the far more secure current generation devices.

That really doesn't sound like you can squeeze another 1-2 years out if it. 

Low to mid range Android phones used to get only 3 years of software support and security updates. That is starting to change now for mid range phones, many are getting 4 years now. The high end, flagship phones get a lot more. 

As to whether it's "bad", it depends on how you look at it. My current phone is a xiaomi 11 lite 5g ne. It was released in August 2021, I bought it in May 2022. Last security update slated for Aug 2025. So I can probably safely use in until around Feb 2026. That's 3 years and 9 months. I'm not sure I will even keep it that long. 

I got my for 8700 baht (on a sale) = 250 usd.  My strategy is to buy a mid range phone for around 250 usd, and use it for around 2.5 years. Which works out to 100 usd per year.  If you buy a new iPhone, it will be around 1000 usd, and you'll need to use it for 10 years to get the same 100 usd per year rate.

Then there is the possibilities of you losing the phone, it getting stolen, dropping it and cracking the screen, battery degrading after some years. Which will hurt a lot more for an expensive phone. 

My phone has a snapdragon 778G chip, 8 gb memory, 256 gb storage. While a new iPhone is theoretically superior in performance, I don't feel like I'm missing out at all. And once an iPhone hits the 3 year mark, you'll feel that you are missing out on new features that the phone industry has come up with in the that time. 

Software support (updated versions of Android) and security updates for the Pixel 4a ended on Aug 19, 2023.  So I wouldn't buy the pixel 4a at all. 

https://endoflife.date/pixel

Last column = guaranteed security update

Second last column = active support 

11 hours ago, jacko45k said:

I do not hear of people getting bans outside of overstay or criminal behaviour.

I have seen it happen to a friend in the Philippines. He was past immigration, customs officer went through his bags in a way he didn't like, so he mouthed off. Now, he is American, and a mouthy one even by American standards. 

Customs guy calls over immigration. Immigration denies him entry into the country, he had to wait in a holding area until the next flight out. They blacklisted him too for good measure. 

13 hours ago, jacko45k said:

On what basis is the 5 year entry ban.......? They were not on overstay that I know of. I have no problem with the concept of banning them, but would it not need some criminal conviction first? From what I hear (toy policeman pal) , they usually all go to the police station, hand money around, a few handshakes and wai's, and are released to go about their business. 

No, they don't need a criminal conviction.  Entering a country is a right, not a privilege. They can simply not grant you that privilege, and you can't complain about your rights. 

6 hours ago, fredwiggy said:

And teaching foreigners a lesson sends messages to people in western countries to attack Thais, which has been happening daily for a long time now. Relations should be good in every country. Prejudice and jealousy makes life hard for people who aren't that way. Asians get attacked all the time because of exactly this. The harder they make life for foreigners here, the harder it will come don on Asians there. If you do wrong here, you get arrested and fined, not kicked while down. Most foreigners here aren't afraid of the smaller men. They're just smart and don't want to make waves because they like it here for one reason or another. Making friends with the Thais is always a better endgame.

Your opinions are way off. They were not "making life harder for foreigners". If it was a Thai or Asian customer who punched/slapped the bouncer unprovoked, I'm sure he would have gotten his come uppance too. 

11 hours ago, roo860 said:

Looks like he used the flat of his hand, not a punch. Not condoning it by the way.

Either way, the security guard struck the marine with a lot of force, enough to knock him out cold. The Brit in Pattaya slapped the Thai bouncer hard too, it was a full swing of the arm. 

41 minutes ago, traveller101 said:

To the many posters which seem to lay the blame entirely onto the Tourists including pointing out that it is 'common knowledge' to never argue with Thais for all the known reasons and retaliation by the bouncers is absolutely justified since the older Brit slapped one across the face.

Consider this: 

The ones at the receiving end of this mayhem were genuine T.OURISTS and possibly first timers to Thailand.

It is certainly not common knowledge to them how to deal with fragile and unhinged Thai Egos.

Furthermore, anybody condoning punches followed by kicks to the head by 2 or more cowards while already on the ground in response to a slap by a 60 year old as justified retaliation, has moved way beyond accepted social norms.

 

 

 

It's not the arguing with the Thais that resulted in the Brit getting a lesson. He took a swing at the head of a Thai. How is smacking someone in the head not "common knowledge"? Is that a "socially accepted norm" too, in Britain maybe? He broke the barrier of respect, decency, socially accepted norm (whatever you want to call it), and then expected to be treated by those norms? 

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

The son was thrown out the pub and then gave the bouncer £50, why? 

Suggests that there is more to the story. As reported by that fine bastion of journalism, the daily mail:

"The 37-year-old said: 'The bouncer became aggressive with me and I said 'do you want to fight me?'. He started fighting me. I came outside and he pushed me to the ground and my shoe came off.

'I stood up and my shoe came off. I stood up and said 'sorry, sorry' and I gave him 2,000 Baht. Everything was OK.'"

Were father and son trying to walk off without paying their tab? 

42 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Being kicked in the head repeatedly can turn anyone into a vegetable. It's sheer luck nobody died.

I would argue that brain-wise, that has happened already. Father sees son pick a fight, getting thrashed even while down. So what does father do? Picks a fight, and gets thrashed while down.

6 minutes ago, balo said:

Lesson learned, they will not do it again. Unless they are brainless of course. As father as son. 
 

Unfortunately not a sure thing that it's lesson learned for them. They are well into adulthood, they have almost certainly done stuff like this before, and they still haven't learned their lesson. 

16 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

Again, this is not what some consider an overreaction by the bouncers. This is not an opinion. Kicking someone in the head because he slapped you, lightly, AFTER you hit them back and knocked him to the ground, is an assault, and would get you jail time most anywhere else, at least civilized countries. Do you actually think people learn a lesson from being kicked in the head? A normal person would think twice after being hit back and knocked to the ground. If he didn't get up and continue the fight, either he was too drunk, or thought about it and realized his mistake. Some would go back and shoot the assailant, as happens most daily in a lot of countries, including here. Some would sue the bar and might win, especially if the jury saw this video. Maybe not here, but that's besides the point. Getting hit is not an excuse for kicking someone when they are down. What the Brit did was stupid, but didn't deserve the outcome. The answers some have given shows a lot about why this world is so screwed up.

In my estimation, the chances that the Brits have learned their lesson, and will not do something stupid like this in the future, is only 50% at best. I really don't care as to what happened to them, and whether it was a reasonably response by the bouncers. Idiots like that don't deserve any kind of respect. 

9 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Looks like Olaf had his hands full with that frauline.

Surely you mean frau. Fraulein is the diminutive form of frau.