Poll: Which abandoned Android phone features do you miss the most?
-
I do not, in fact, see what you did there.
You need a small camera to put it on a small bezel. But also, you need a small camera for a small punch hole, which is something that all flagship devices actively try to follow.
It's clearly true that the camera removes screen real estate if the screen of the Xperia 1 and the screen of the other phones have the same aspect ratio and size (the Xperia 1 is on the small side of modern flagships, but... yeah, they do), so the difference is between having a screen with a 2/3 mm bezel above it or having the exact same size and resolution screen with a hole in it. The screen is the same, one of them has a hole in it... so the hole is taking screen away.
And even if that wasn't the case and the screen was getting smaller, the hole is in the middle of your image. A smaller uninterrupted screen is better than an image with a hole in the middle. I don't understand how that is debatable, unless one is, you know, a bit of a moron. Yet here we are.
Now, I will give the notches that at least they poke from the top of the screen, so one could make the argument that the image isn't supposed to go over the line of the notch, and instead that space is for notifications and images should be coded to stay below that line. But of course then you have a WAY bigger "forehead" than any notchless phone would, and that still doesn't hold with the fact that most modern notches and punch holes are very clearly designed for the image to wrap around them in normal media viewing.
I do concede that most morons do not seem to care about the selfie camera, but hey, most morons also do take selfies, which is something I can't really wrap my head around. Then again, if truly nobody cared, then the industry wouldn't have spent a ton of money engineering under-display cameras and all sorts of flip cameras before deciding the compromises weren't worth it.
It's just a thing people have learned to live with on their least important device, like non-replaceable batteries, fixed, overpriced storage and lack of connectivity. The industry decided that was the weirdly enshittified trendy thing and consolidated around it and a lot of people find it annoying, just... not annoying enough to do anything about it. Welcome to the 21st century, I suppose.
Weirdly, you may have sold me on the 1 VII better than the guy telling me it's good. I may need to anchor myself into the sensible choice even at a premium before the enshittification train leads to a single design (two, if you count foldables that turn into a shitty tablet in exchange for being exceedingly frail and expensive).
wrote last edited by [email protected]You make some valid points, but that kind of engineering costs money. Like I said in my other comment, I would genuinely like to see more progress made in that area. The OP7P's pop-up camera was a neat bit of engineering.
Don't conflate that with the actual anti-consumer bullshit, though. A notch/holepunch camera is not the hill to die on when your argument relates to that, it's not even close to the same thing.
-
I've been impressed by my Ulefone 27T. It's an armoured brick with a 10,000mAh battery. Waterproof, with IR and headphone jack. It also has a thermal camera.
Holy crap.
-
I don't work for them, I just happen to like the idea that there is a phone company making smaller sized phones, phone with physical keyboards, etc.
IB4 the comments complaining about android versions and such. Yes, I get it. Some of them are still running android 11, yes that is a security risk. Could be though that the people that want a small form factor phone also don't want to do banking or other financially related things on it as well.
I feel like the two groups of people that just want to make phonecalls and texts, but who also just want a small phone, have a lot of overlap.
-
Stereo front facing speakers.
I have no idea why these terrible downward facing speakers took off, HTC had it nailed in 2012. RIP, king of smartphones. I'm glad to at least have 2 proper speakers on my Fold6 and 7, rather than an amplified earpiece speaker... But this is just not how sound works. I shouldn't have to cup my hand around the side to point the sound in the proper direction.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The Nexus 6P's front-facing speakers were pretty sweet; that device was near-perfectly symmetrical when turned sideways for watching media/playing games, and your palm didn't cover the speakers.
My current Pixel 9 Pro XL has stereo speakers, but one of them is the downward-firing speaker on the bottom. Makes for an odd effect if it's covered.
-
The phone has to have an ADC hardware to allow that.
So basically it just has to have a microphone? Essentially, it has to be TRRS?
-
A lot of people miss physical keyboards actually F(x)Tec Pro^1^ X has a physical keyboard. There is a modern clone of Blackberry Passport. There is the Clicks keyboard case for iPhones.
I think I'm one of very few enthusiasts who likes software keyboards better at this point lol.
wrote last edited by [email protected]F(x)Tec Pro^1^ X
Super-weird formatting aside, that looks pretty interesting. Out of stock though.
-
Why can’t the camera “flash” be used for this? IOS has settings for it in accessibility features.
You know? That's a good question. I wouldn't think it would be very hard to just do a minor redesign of the flash LED to do that.
-
So basically it just has to have a microphone? Essentially, it has to be TRRS?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Well no. I was being simple to get the point across. You'd need something like this to amplify and demodulate the radio siginal and then convert it to digital.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Blinking LED when I got a text
-
This post did not contain any content.
The feature where you can hold the phone comfortably in one hand and without having to do any gymnastics to reach the top corner.
-
I liked the notification LEDs that some of the nexus phones used to have, you could customize the color / flashing pattern per contact.
I had a phone with this and I loved the hell out of it. Could tell at a glace if a notification was for an email, text, or voice call without opening the phone. Could also set a custom color for, say, a text from my wife.
-
Seems like an issue with buying cheap adapters rather than with the concept of adapters, cheap headphones will presumably break just as easily
I don't lean either way on the headphone jack debate. But a friend insisted that cheapness was one of the main reasons he preferred wired headphones. Bluetooth ones were too expensive and he kept losing or destroying them. Definitely a him problem but replacing cheap headphones was easier and the dongle was just another layer of expense to deal with if the phone didn't have a jack.
-
I just want the LG G5 back. It had a(n):
- Removable battery
- SD card slot
- Infrared blaster
- FM Radio
- 3.5mm jack
- Compass
- Barometer
- Gyro
- NFC
- Fingerprint reader
And a ton of other stuff. Truly the best android phone ever made
Closest I can find now is the Ulefone line (no removable battery) but I have no idea if they're decent phones or not.
Had one of those, but it eventually died. Great phone.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Replaceable battery. No contest.
-
Probably because of edge-to-edge screens?
I had a Moto X Style and remember being quite fond of the speakers.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Yeah - for years it was a primary deciding factor for me when it was time for a new phone - HTC One m7, HTC One m8, Moto X Pure Edition all had front facing speakers. I think by the end there were simply no longer any options though... And now 10 years later, they're still pointing the speakers at the damned ground.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Native SIP phone capability
-
I'm certain I had that same htc one. It was the best phone i ever had. I really wish someone would make something like that again.
I loved it too. The m7 was excellent, then the m8 managed to level up everything great about the m7. Amazing phone.
-
You make some valid points, but that kind of engineering costs money. Like I said in my other comment, I would genuinely like to see more progress made in that area. The OP7P's pop-up camera was a neat bit of engineering.
Don't conflate that with the actual anti-consumer bullshit, though. A notch/holepunch camera is not the hill to die on when your argument relates to that, it's not even close to the same thing.
It's in a bundle with the other actually useful features like upgradeable storage or wired headphones, in my book.
I agree that I'd like more innovation and variety. Every single phone out there it's just some variation on the exact same thing these days. Ideally you'd have a choice of any combo of those features to fit your preference, but that's just not a thing now.
-
thinner phone requires a smaller battery. Smaller battery is smaller capacity.
That's silly. They removed the ability, they didn't give people a choice. No one was asking, no one chose this.
Noone asked for phones to copy the iphone... yet here we are.
Did you know that in the U.S. Texas makes all of our school textbooks worse because it's easier just to print the stupid textbooks than print separate ones for just Texas because Texas is such a big market. This is not a conspiracy theory, you can look it up if you are interested.
So close to getting it... smh
You can buy small trucks in America. What are you talking about?
You can? Show one new model that is the same size of a 1990 ford ranger.
wrote last edited by [email protected]thinner phone requires a smaller battery. Smaller battery is smaller capacity.
Yes, smaller batteries of the same type generally have lower capacity. Very good. That's not what we were talking about though is it? YOU said that having a non-replaceable battery allowed them to make phones thinner. That is what they had the ability to do for the decade that they were still making phones with replaceable batteries.
Noone asked for phones to copy the iphone
Peter Noone, from Hermans Hermits? Fun trivia. You know who else asked for it, everyone else.
So close to getting it…
Oh, you think you are close to getting it? Well maybe I can help you the rest of the way. If School Text Book manufacturers who were forced to come up with a dumber version of their product to fit the requirements of one large market found it was cheaper just to sell everyone the dumb version instead of making two different versions, it follows that Phone Manufacturers would likewise find it cheaper to sell the dumber version of phones to everyone if one large market required them to make phones dumber. Do you get it now? I can try to dumb it down even more for you if you need me to.
Show one new model that is the same size of a 1990 ford ranger.
The still sell Ford Rangers I'm pretty sure. I'm going to let you do your own Truck shopping.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Physical keyboard
