Posted on 08/28/2017 6:55:21 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The NYPD has to scrap the 36,000 smartphones it gave cops over the past two years because they’re already obsolete and can’t be upgraded, The Post has learned.
The city bought Microsoft-based Nokia smartphones as part of a $160 million NYPD Mobility Initiative that Mayor Bill de Blasio touted as “a huge step into the 21st century.”
But just months after the last phone was handed out, officials plan to begin replacing them all with brand-new iPhones by the end of the year, sources said.
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What? Obsolete?
You mean they can’t make phone calls?...What junk.
You’d think MS could be contracted to still service the phones?
Being that there is 36,000 of them?
Typical government fiasco.
I remember the same happened on September 11.
And it seems to happen every time there's a disaster...
Which makes me wonder - why don't they stick to radios?
That’s Bill de Blasio for you.
36K? Somebody’s hands were greased. I’m sure that a teenage wiz kid could figure out a way to upgrade them if the money were right.
You do know cell phones are radios
What ,no more Obama phones out there
And it seems to happen every time there’s a disaster...
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and that’s why I keep a land line.
The writing was on the wall for years that Microsoft did not have much interest in their buggy Windows smart phone operating system and Nokia was washed up as a phone maker. I knew this because I looked into buying one and it only took a browse on some major tech blogs to find this information out.
I can’t call across town in Houston.
That same landline call call my cellphone.
I am having no other problems making calls today.
But that one number I get 2 rings and then “all circuits are busy”.
Everyone else I’ve contacted can call that number.
Cellphone technology and towers are not entirely reliable at times like these.
I just searched , “installing android on a windows phone” and guess what ,LOL
We sure do rely on our technology though. Cell phones, GPS.
windows phone death knell was tolled Jan 2016.
At the time, MS\Nokia had sold 110 million Windows phones compared to 4.5 billion iOS and Android phones in the same period.
https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/28/10864034/windows-phone-is-dead
yet Jessica Tisch continued the NYPD rollout through April 2016.
Somebody check her back accounts....
Methinks the police frequency is a tad bit more ‘clear’ than cell tower freqs.
The fire department that I worked for also made awful choices when it came to cell phone and radio equipment and carriers. The person in charge of communications had no clue when it came to technical issues. He got the job because of politics and seniority not his ability to understand communications technology.
About the time that I retired they bought all the chiefs iPhones because that was the in thing to get. Most of the chiefs had no idea how to use them so that was a comedy as well.
This is about ongoing operating system support, not basic functionality. It's not a good idea to write your new specialized apps for an abandoned operating system.
Bullfeathers! It’s the taxpayer’s money.
Why don’t they just order $20 tracfones?
They may not play America’s funniest youtube, but the cops are supposed to be working, communicating, not playing videogames.
That's local government for you. Decisions are not based on technical merit, but almost always on politics. I was doing research on a digital packet data network for a local government, and recommendations were overruled by selection of an inferior network. Because the existing support group in a department were fearful of the newer technology and wanted to preserve the need of their existence handling the older stuff. The selected tech hampered the police and emergency services. This stuff happens in lots of cities.
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