Poll: Which abandoned Android phone features do you miss the most?
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I used to be able to
unlockwake my phone and see what band was currently playing.OneUI fucked that up.
Edit: wake
wrote last edited by [email protected]Wait, can you not do that anymore?
Edit: I just checked. I'm on oneui 7.0 and it shows Spotify and the details of the song - even album art.
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Again, shitty phone. You’re supposed to actually push the button to unlock it. Don’t understand why your finger would be on the back of the phone when putting it in your pocket anyway.
This isn't a "shitty phone" thing. Every phone I've owned with a side-mounted fingerprint reader has unlocked via touch (not press). It's standard.
Again, we were talking about the back.
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I liked the notification LEDs that some of the nexus phones used to have, you could customize the color / flashing pattern per contact.
Yes, I was gonna say this one too but it was like 2010 on a phone that had a physical keyboard. You could set it to flash for notifications - yellow for missed calls, green for texts, blue for an app. A simpler time
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Kind of a weird poll when I still have all those features, except maybe the IR blaster. Like, yeah, I would miss those, but I don't currently...
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I really wish IR blasters would come back into style. They're not even expensive to manufacture, and they're small enough that they can be incorporated into any modern smartphone design pretty easily. And almost everybody with a smartphone has SOMETHING in their home that they control with an IR remote. There's basically no reason to have stopped including them.
Ah yes, let me just pull out my phone, unlock, open remote app, switch to 'my tv/air-conditioning manufacturer' profile and press off.
The IR experience on a phone is not convenient for day to day, especially when (love it or hate it) most things can be controlled over WiFi without needing line of sight. -
Wait, can you not do that anymore?
Edit: I just checked. I'm on oneui 7.0 and it shows Spotify and the details of the song - even album art.
wrote last edited by [email protected]It only shows the song name and has miniscule controls which is awful when occupied (read: driving).
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My HTC ChaCha had a full qwerty keyboard. Now I'm lucky if the on-screen one bothers to show up in some apps.
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Reading through this thread gives me serious nostalgia. My first smartphone was a Motorola Droid, which really had it all: physical slide-open keyboard, headphone jack, removable battery, configurable notification LEDs, shake guesture for the flashlight. Good times. Kept on running with CyanogenMod well beyond the official support.
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It only shows the song name and has miniscule controls which is awful when occupied (read: driving).
But you shouldn’t be using it when driving.
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I use AODNotify, which lights up a ring around the front camera. It's pretty configurable, maybe check it out.
Thanks!
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But you shouldn’t be using it when driving.
Wow, so you understand the issue, then.
I should be able to see who is playing at a glance on screen-wake without having to mess with it.
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Wish it was ranked choice voting. For me the list is: removable battery, expandable storage, ir blaster, headphone jack. I think repairablity is the most important and i never use the headphone jack but do use ir sometimes so thats the only reason its last. On phones with oled screens notification light is a software feature and fm requires the headphone jack.
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Wow, so you understand the issue, then.
I should be able to see who is playing at a glance on screen-wake without having to mess with it.
My bad. I assumed most people use Android Auto.
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Kind of a weird poll when I still have all those features, except maybe the IR blaster. Like, yeah, I would miss those, but I don't currently...
Let me guess a Sony smartphone?
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Software festure, but I miss being able to turn on and off wifi and Bluetooth in the drop-down menu with one click. Latest android replaced it with another sub menu to select network or device, requiring another action to enable/disable.
Thankfully OEMs use smart defaults and its the current behaviour as before.
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I got Motorola with a headphone jack, and I use it surprisingly often. All my Bluetooth stuff has fallen apart faster than my wired stuff.
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IR Blaster, Headphone Jack, swappable battery.
Ultimately...
Less thin, I hate this constant race to be the thinnest phone - lighter I would maybe be for - but thinner, fuck off.
Why I didn't buy a Fold7 recently:
- Too thin
- Cameras slightly below other flagships
- No S Pen support, because they wanted to make it thinner
- Bad water resistance
- Awful battery size and life
- Overall, one of the more underpowered and under spec'd foldable on the global market - all because they wanted to be thin
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Rectangular screens without missing parts. I hate rounded corners.
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My Motorola Moto Z had a shake shake flashlight feature. Not sure if this was Android or Motorola but it was very useful.
My Moto G Power has it, super useful feature.
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Every damn feature.
But most? Removable flipping batteries. Having a bomb in your pocket computer that you can't remove, and shortens it's effective life without often complex surgery is absolutely criminal.
Removable D batteries have existed since 1898. It was a staples feature of machines. Nobody wanted, needed, or desired the tech brah "disruption" of gluing lithium bombs into phones.
wrote last edited by [email protected]It's because the U.S. Government can make it seem as if your phone is powered down, but it's actually still on and spying on you, sending data to whatever alphabet agency wants it. Removing the battery is the only defense against that attack, so they 'encouraged' manufacturers to stop allowing it.
