Stuff...
Stuff...
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Look at all that screen real estate. Utterly wasted on ads and super tall fonts.
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No worries for me
Own your hardware
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"Owning your hardware" implies the bootloader is unlockable and relockable.
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Don't forget all the margins around everything for no reason
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Super tall fonts?
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Yes, look at the screen resolution of your phone (mine is at 1080x2340 by 6.38 to 2.97 inches) and then at an old palm PDA from the early 2000s with 320x320 (or at tops 320x480 by 4.8 to 3.1 inches) and now compare what amount of text you can display on each. The Phone should be able to display soo much more Text, but it doesn't because the Fonts are so tall.
Thats what I mean.
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Would love a slightly thicker phone with a huge removable battery
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also we have to encase our phones in cases because they're not durable enough to survive day to day life. they could be made more rugged from the factory
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That's mostly because we care about aesthetics. My work phone is some Samsung flagship model from two years ago, I don't have a case for it (because I don't give a shit his it looks). Its with me on all factory visits in dirty production environments and what not, dropped it multiple times, stored in my pocket or just thrown in my bag. Screen is not cracked, sides and back are scratched and dinged up, but nothing is broken. They're plenty durable if you don't care about minor cosmetic things.
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What are you all doing with your phones that you need to put them in cases? I feel like this is the equivalent of covering a high-end car in bumper stickers.
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Nah, I'd prefer to have a case I can swap once it becomes too damaged vs a phone chassis whose damage I have to live with until I buy a new phone. I'm trying to keep my phone for a long time, so the former is definitely better for my use case.
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I think most phones are plenty durable, people are just paranoid.
And repairs are too expensive/risky. I think more repairable phones is a better aim than more rugged ones.
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Do you feel like magsafe batteries scratch that itch?
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Nah, specially after a couple of years and the phone's internal battery doesnt last a full day
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I have small hands and I hate how few small phones there are now
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I have larger than small hands and hate how few "small" phones there are.
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I have hands and hate how few "small" phones there are.
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iPhone 13 mini user here; I can relate. Anything bigger than this is too big for me. I will use it until it breaks or security updates stop. After that I will have to see.
Older, smaller phones with PostmarketOS come to mind. But this OS is not ready for day-to-day-use, just yet.
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My latest was a zenfone 10, which was the smallest I could find that had good features. It was not easy to find anything though 😑
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Same. It's been a problems for way over 10 years now. I've upgraded to the pixel 9 pro and it's just too big, even though it's one of the smaller modern phones available. It's actually smaller than my previous phone but it seems harder to hold one handed.
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By stuff you mean animated GIFs of big breasted horse hung transgender anthropomorphic lions being violated by giant alien tentacles, right?
Just say porn
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That's so obvious I didn't think it needed to be said. Who doesn't watch animated GIFs of big breasted horse hung transgender anthropomorphic lions being violated by giant alien tentacles?
Maybe if you're a kinky pervert you'd watch .mpeg of big breasted horse hung transgender anthropomorphic lions and giant alien tentacles doing missionary in a committed exclusive relationship exclusively for having kids, but nobody is that depraved.
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The weight scale is misrepresented, though.
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Now I’m mad
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Good catch!
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i would kill for button based menu navigation to come back
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Why
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ergonomic, don't have to move your hands.
tactile, don't have to watch the phone to navigate if you are familiar with what you are doing
"safer" since you can rest your hands while holding your device without worrying about accidental touch inputs that means you can have a firmer grip
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They prolly like murder or sth
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They got bigger so there was more room for ads.
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Lots of "stuff" in my homework folder.
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There’s an early Corner Gas episode where Brent and Davis get into a competition over who can get the smallest phone, it feels so odd watching it today.
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i had a guy visit the office a couple months ago with a smarty phone that was smaller than my flip phone closed-up. i loved it. i decided then that if i ever did 'have to' get one--and i could afford it, it would be one of those (a jelly).
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That Motorola RAZR in the middle, god that was an awesome phone. So sleek. Satisfying to close!
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lol that was dope. When ads on TV used to be longer than 15–30 seconds, eh.
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I remember back in 1990ish, there was a guy involved in the local music scene who got interviewed on AM radio (Right before the rise of conservative talk radio, when there were still local hosts talking about local issues.). This guy wasn't a big shot and not a musician, just a guy passabout music. tmusic. He went by the moniker Jim Clevo, I had the fortune of meeting him once. Anyways, he had insight as to where the music industry was headed. In the interview, he told how in the future we would be listening to music through our phones. At the time high tech was a cordless landlines with an answering machine built in. He sounded crazy, i couldn't figure out why he thought we would all be holding phones up to our ears listening to music, I never had anything but a corded phone at the time. Not sure why I'm rambling about it other than this post reminded me of him.
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I mean as soon as cassettes were a thing, mix tapes by holding the cassette to the radio became a thing right? Why not phones?
Hell back in the 80s, before the breakup of Yugoslavia, they went a step further: they had a home PC that could be built from parts available at electronics stores. It used a cassette recorder for a HDD.
A local radio station started broadcasting software, pc owners could record the audio of a program on a Walkman, then put the tape in their PC.
There's a past we never got where a radio-based internet existed alongside the landlines based one.
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could watch stuffcould watch ads-
And porn
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I really want to know now if people somehow still managed to get porn on their old Motorolas. Must've taken ages to download but probably worth it. Maybe.
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From this graph we can say the Razr was peak
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I still have one somewhere. I'm amazed at how quickly people forgot that for a period of about a year, the Razr was the "it" phone to have. It was a fashion symbol, and had the same general societal status as the iPhone... before the iPhone.
Then smartphones hit it big especially with the iPhone itself and nobody gave a shit anymore.
One of the Razr's other big contributions was in abandoning the usual stupid proprietary multi-pin model specific cell phone charging connectors because it normalized the then state of the art USB mini B connector for both charging and data transfer. People were going around calling the mini B "the Razr plug" for a couple of months there, fully believing it was yet more proprietary bullshit because that's what they'd been conditioned to expect.
Early cell phones were weird. We don't get that kind of weird anymore.
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For me the Palm Pixi was the peak expierence: small, touch friendly, hardware keyboard, relatively open OS, integrated headphone jack, wireless charging and very good battery live.
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And what if I don't want to watch "stuff" on my phone? My phone is supposed to be a portable "swiss-army-knife" of digital tools.
They made tablets for the other "stuff"
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More like corporations realized that people with larger screens tend to browse more content and spend more time in their phones, so they made it the only available option, whether you like it or not.
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Angry upvote!
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And as a fan of large screens (like projectors), I couldn't be happier. Hence why I own a foldable, because most phone screens still aren't large enough to satisfy me.
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I am so opposite of this - you could never sell me a foldable - I can't even find one Android game that is worth playing that isn't a remake of an old PC game. That folding will eventually kill the device earlier than a non fold. I just don't see the draw... I have a tablet or laptop or pc for games and other stuff.
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Not sure it's really relevant how long someone spends on their phone. The only thing that matters to them are sales, and the simple matter is that larger screens sell better than their smaller counterparts.
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The more time someone spends on their phone, the more likely they are to want better ones, the more likely it is for their phones to break, so they end up selling more. Also, it's very likely that manufacturers have partnerships with corporations like google, meta, etc, that profit a lot from increased phone usage.
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I think a lot of the reason phones are getting bigger is because of battery life. You can absolutely make a small phone with a big battery, but then it would be thicc and people (read plebs) don’t want little bricks, they want big slabs.
So for the few of us that want little bricks, we’re just entirely fucked. There are the Jelly phones, but they run Android, and I’d rather have a slab that spies on me a little less than a perfect brick filled to the brim with Google spyware.
I’m waiting and hoping and waiting and hoping that Linux phones get to the point where I can daily drive one.
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I am in this camp- little brick with a replaceable battery because if I want to watch a show or play a game I'll use a different device. Absolutely no one caters to us. I would also pick a Linux phone if I could in that form factor but in the US there's not even a smattering of choice. To make a Linux phone work you'd need an emulation layer to make android apps work (I honestly don't know the state of Linux phones on this ) but without it you'd be using a windows phone with craptastic app support. That's what really killed WIndows phone. Lets keep hoping brother.
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This graphic is missing the (de)evolution in phones when manufacturers unnecessarily started putting holes and notches in the screens.
#StopPuttingCutoutsInMyFuckingDisplays #BringBackBezels
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Some phones go to the extreme, but my small circle camera cutout doesn't bother me. On a phone, it's always in the status/notification bar anyways so not a big deal unless you watch a lot of widescreen content.
The biggest deevolution must be audio jacks... the big lie of "we need to remove them so we can make your phones smaller", just for phones to get thicker. Surely it can fit.
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More like until mobile internet became affordable.
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I say the screen grows constantly and the part of the phone that isn't screen decreases constantly. It's just that at some point the sum is getting smaller
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One can dream about practical rollable or slidable displays so that it fits in my pocket. And no, I don't look at foldables. The part where it gets folded just looks ugly.
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I wish 2g and 3g weren't being dismantled. I want to go back to using my old razr
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2000 star tac flip phone…you were perfection. beam me up Scottie!
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and the battery life 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
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I absolutely hate that phones got so darn big. Im stuck with iPhone 13 mini even though I hate iOS with no clear upgrade path
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They got a lot smaller than that.
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I think the 170 weight on the right is larger than the 170 weight on the left... That's all I can look at
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The screen size boom was later. Look at the iphone 5
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Apple was slow to adopt larger screens. The Android phones of that time were roughly an inch larger. Apple rarely blazed any trails.
https://www.droid-life.com/2012/12/20/top-10-android-phones-of-2012/
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Exactly. Apples biggest success has been looking at all the options being tested by other manufacturers, choosing the option they want, then completely eliminating all other options and convincing people in droves that what they are offering is what you want.
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Phones with large screens used to be called phablets, nobody calls them that anymore because they're all phablets now.
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Tallest on the left, shortest on the right....SIZE!
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Porn, this meme used to say porn! Why do we keep self censoring?
I agree with the sentiment, but porn is maybe too restrictive. Phones basically became the new TV.
Good point, overall short form video apps must trounce porn sites
The social media algorithms that give us fake internet points have conditioned us to comply.
We’re on Lemmy though. Even if it were censored you could simply post it to an instance that won’t censor.
It used to be porn but that was back when phone screens were 16:9. Now they are 18:9 and thats for vertical scrolling of social media feeds.
While porn is definitely part of it, you can also watch Futurama on your phone.
That’s essentially porn for your soul
I have never met anyone that didn't like porn. Even your most prudish Christians like porn. Why do you think they fight so hard to ban it, they like it and are ashamed for liking it.