I know some people who swear by their tablets… I’d imagine for them having only one device is pretty enticing
I know some people who swear by their tablets… I’d imagine for them having only one device is pretty enticing
My point is that the lithium battery angle is a diversion and isn’t even relevant.
Lithium batteries can ignite, but they don’t just explode like that.
These pagers don’t use lithium battery.
The front usually doesn’t fall off.
They are still very common in hospital settings. Those things are reliable as fuck.
Pagers are very common in hospital settings, they are reliable as all hell, cheap, and don’t produce EMI.
Yeah or even more in-depth than weighing them xraying devices is pretty trivial, specially a small device like a pager that fits on a dental x-ray machine.
Well yeah, specially since the Apollo Gold pagers don’t use lithium batteries.
Gold Apollo lists AA, FWIW
Power from a single AA alkaline battery (plus lithium backup battery).
EDIT: The AP-900 uses AAA.
And yeah they absolutely are legit and are used all over the industries that still use pagers (hospitals are big big one in part because of their reliability and lack of EMI).
Another interesting point about them is that they are:
UL-certified for use in hazardous locations
Confirmed by Reuters as well: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-we-know-so-far-about-deadly-pager-blasts-lebanon-2024-09-17/
Images of destroyed pagers analysed by Reuters showed a format and stickers on the back that were consistent with pagers made by Gold Apollo, a Taiwan-based pager manufacturer.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DABU2Aisg_V/ (the account, SpyCraft101, is ran by Justin Black, an author and historian of espionage)
Graphic Warning: the link also contains cctv footage of some of the devices exploding and injuring/killing people.
You don’t. If you’ve seen the videos this are clearly high explosives. These devices were interdicted by Mossad long ago and triggered remotely.
I meant safer in terms of the device doing what you expect it to be doing
Absolutely, I’m just putting some nuance into it for people who don’t know anything about pagers.
Also, pagers that support encryption are absolutely a thing.
Fair, but it appears these were Apollo Gold A25, an off the shelf FLEX system.
Traditionally pagers use either FLEX or POCSAG protocols, both of which are fully unencrypted and have to broadcast everywhere with relatively high power… So safer is maybe a bit of a misnomer… But they also don’t transmit anything so in terms of remote listening and location tracking, yes they are safer.
Wonder what the chemistry of those batteries was…
(CH2N2O2)3 would be my guess…
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