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What kind of phone do you think elias has? Latest iPhone? Recent Samsung? Google pixel with a great camera? One of those economical chinese brands? An early iPhone he's made last a decade?

What features do you think are important to elias regarding phones? (Storage, camera, ect)

itchyeye:

> OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO this is such a fun question 🖤

> i think elias has multiple phones tbh. so in his office he has a corded multiline phone. this is the same unit that everyone in the institute has. they’re slate office gray and they’re old. but they work reliably!! tim keeps referring to them being from the 80s but they are from the early 00s at the very earliest. office tech just looks outdated as soon as it’s manufactured. they work well. you can only dial out from elias and rosie’s lines, the rest are strictly internal.

> then i think he has a pretty outdated iphone that he uses for work, which is billed to the institute’s plan. this is a benefit offered to management level staff and higher. phones are not for personal use and therefore come with very limited features and very little data. (the institute has wifi everywhere except the archives, which use ethernet)

> and finally for personal use i do think he has a Pixel, actually!! i had a Pixel 2 once and it was my favorite phone i’ve ever owned except it bricked after 1 week. then i got a refurbished one and was angry that i was making monthly payments for a brand new fresh out of the box phone but using a refurbished one. then in exactly one more week the refurbished one also bricked. out of absolutely nowhere. THIS IS A VERY WEB ALIGNED THING TO HAVE HAPPENED IMVHO. but anyway yes i think because of the incredible screen resolution and the amazing camera, he does have the newest pixel. that’s the one that has the very nice leather case on it. peter got it for him and elias told him how nice it would be holding something so fine while his husband doesn’t call him.

> i think elias is tech savy and very with the times and i think data security and modern surveilance doesn’t bother him at all so he keeps the shit that needs to be secret secret as HELL and then uses the cloud for everything else. because data insecurity not bothering him was an understatement it obviously turns him on.