Poll: Which abandoned Android phone features do you miss the most?
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You said you couldn't buy a small truck, not that you couldn't buy a truck the same size as 20 years ago.
A. I clarified to find me one of the same size as a 1990 model.
B. Isnt this exactly the same argument your making? There is huge demand for small trucks, the ranger was a top seller when it was discontinued. And when it was brought back, its a slightly smaller version of the f150, and nothing what people want.
They also had the ability to put in smaller batteries if everyone was clamoring for super thin phones. They just weren’t.
You really are that dense. The battery tech was not there to allow thinner phones without compromising capacity. The strongest market desirablity is battery life. But people also want smaller phones. Hell, futurama made this joke in 2001
wrote last edited by [email protected]A. I clarified to find me one of the same size as a 1990 model.
Good for you.
B. Isnt this exactly the same argument your making?
No, you don't carry Ford Rangers around in your pocket all the time making them easy vectors to spy on people.
The bagtery tech was not there to allow thinner phones without comprismising capacity.
And if people really gave a fuck about thinner phones they would have accepted smaller "bagtery's" to get them. Clearly capacity was more important.
So I guess people weren't chomping at the bit to get thinner phones now were they?But people also want smaller phones.
Phones have been getting bigger not smaller.
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You know its a really easy to prove against, right? Just have some basic radio spectrograph to detect any signals coming from a turned off phone.
In reality, the correlation is phones continue to get thinner, making it near impossible to create a battery and battery connector small enough and still be resistant to a 200lb ape handling it.
That actually isn't a way to prove anything, unfortunately.
A powered off or "powered off" phone wouldn't need to transmit anything. It would be just waking one of the receivers periodically (or even the NFC could be hit by some radio energy as a trigger) to listen for the "secret" activation code. Listening for radio energy doesn't generate any.
If the phone was "powered off" - tracing power draw between battery/phone would probably show something, but likely, the phone's power draw while off is always constant if this were the case and it isn't a new state the phone goes into.
Even if the phone was being used as an offline bug, the user would still not know because it can record audio/whatever and store it internally without ever transmitting. It'd likely be rigged up to just transmit the next time the user "turns it on" - so they'd be unaware, as the transmission would look like normal traffic.
The only case where it would be traceable from a radio perspective is if it were being used as an online bug, which means it would already have to have been put in the online bug state, which means someone has a reason to monitor you.
I mean shoot, if one really wants to go full tinfoil hat, recording audio to temporary storage at voice quality could go on for days with a phone "powered off" - periodically dumped to somewhere in flash. Hours of conversation could be fit in megabytes. The phone could just always be recording while turned off for every user, and when turned back on, that audio file is sent through the ML processor to convert to text, and then compress the text, further reducing the size. That data could be transmitted during normal usage as voice or compressed data, or just stored in the phone as compressed data for years.
Every phone could be doing this right now, and could have been doing this for a decade, although on-device text transcription is a relatively new feature.
Then, let us go next level: phone recycling/exchange processes also harvest IMEI+that compressed data before being shipped off for resale in the event it was never transmitted. Finally, we know why the NSA has the Utah data center.
I keep asking them to send me copies of recordings of old phone calls, but they never humor me.
DISCLAIMER: This is all non-serious but based on what is technically possible right now.
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Definitely the jack. I have special headphones for listening to white noise while sleeping. The Bluetooth version have a chunky panel, and don't last long before they get that Bluetooth whine. That whine is a deal-breaker is a sleep aid.
So I use the 3.5mm version.... if I use the charge port converted to a Jack, I can't charge my phone while I listen to white noise and I'll wake up to 6%. Rhe loss or the jack is why I haven't upgraded my phone in years.
You can get split cables that have jack and a USB C. But yes it sucks.
Although.. One silver lining I've found from being forced to convert the USB to 3.5 is that I now get to pick and chose different dac cables, and there are some pretty big differences.
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F(x)Tec Pro^1^ X
Super-weird formatting aside, that looks pretty interesting. Out of stock though.
The formatting most likely didn't help with people being able to google it, or to remember the name even.
It's quite old now and has been out of stock for a long time.
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A. I clarified to find me one of the same size as a 1990 model.
Good for you.
B. Isnt this exactly the same argument your making?
No, you don't carry Ford Rangers around in your pocket all the time making them easy vectors to spy on people.
The bagtery tech was not there to allow thinner phones without comprismising capacity.
And if people really gave a fuck about thinner phones they would have accepted smaller "bagtery's" to get them. Clearly capacity was more important.
So I guess people weren't chomping at the bit to get thinner phones now were they?But people also want smaller phones.
Phones have been getting bigger not smaller.
Phones have been getting bigger not smaller.
To... wait for it... accommodate larger screens. Shocking i know. You know exactly what i meant by smaller.
No, you don't carry Ford Rangers around in your pocket all the time making them easy vectors to spy on people
Riddle me this. Why would you carry a phone....without a battery?
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The formatting most likely didn't help with people being able to google it, or to remember the name even.
It's quite old now and has been out of stock for a long time.
Yeah, I just noticed that it was released in 2023. Not necessarily a bad thing, really, but damn I'd like one of these devices if not for that form factor on its own. Still has official LOS support, too.
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Phones have been getting bigger not smaller.
To... wait for it... accommodate larger screens. Shocking i know. You know exactly what i meant by smaller.
No, you don't carry Ford Rangers around in your pocket all the time making them easy vectors to spy on people
Riddle me this. Why would you carry a phone....without a battery?
I'm done talking to you doofus. I hope you get help for whatever is wrong with you.
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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.
And phones don't have something like that?
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They are one of the few OEMs that still offers headphone jacks and they are overall decent midrange phones. If they weren't so damned big and had an unlocked bootloader for ROM support I'd be on one right now.
Yeah, I've given up on bootloaders long ago. After I broke my last phone, finding a decent mid range phone with expandable storage, a headphone jack, stylus and nice colors was pretty nice. The cameras are decent, and the processing power is fine for most stuff. The only time it slows down is if I'm cropping and editing a video or screen recording, which is a pretty seldom thing.
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Yeah, I've given up on bootloaders long ago. After I broke my last phone, finding a decent mid range phone with expandable storage, a headphone jack, stylus and nice colors was pretty nice. The cameras are decent, and the processing power is fine for most stuff. The only time it slows down is if I'm cropping and editing a video or screen recording, which is a pretty seldom thing.
My Pixel 4a was perfect, but it is sadly gone now. I ended up with an 8a to I could keep using grapheneOS, but without a headphone jack I just started using a standalone portable music player. It seems ridiculous because it is, but that is what they forced on me and I will never forgive any of these companies for it.
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And phones don't have something like that?
Not all do.
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I'm done talking to you doofus. I hope you get help for whatever is wrong with you.
The ability of rational and critical thinking? Its a curse.
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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.
3.5mm jack,
Compass,
Barometer,
GyroThese things are still in most modern phones.--
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I need my expandable 1TB SD Card storage. 128 default is lame
I want to have 10 TV shows, 50 movies, a offline wikipedia .zim file, bunch of photos, etc...
I don't want my phone to just be a phone, I want it to be a Pocket PC.
GIMME THE FUCKING SD CARD SLOT
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Wired does not mean "old", it means faster, more reliable, better for the environment and cheaper too!
In the time that some very affordable studio headphones last me, I'd have to buy about 5 or so similarly priced BT headphones or 10 pairs of true wireless ear buds. Turns out adding complexity to a device and powering it with a non replaceable battery makes it way less reliable and worse for the environment.
On top of that, wireless almost always implies audio compression. (but in fairness that won't be noticeable for everyone)
Imho a headphone jack should still be a "must have" for smartphones.That and there was no reason to kill it other than to sell BT headphones (constantly).
Somehow we had enough space and all back when phones were 4" at most. But now that theyre 6"+ somehow we just don't have room..
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Trackball
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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.
They are most likely a circle lol.
I've have Samsung phones for a long time, and I've come to accept that I suck at typing with a virtual keyboard. So I think my next phone will be a Titan 2, or hopefully a Titan 2 slim since the 2 seems to be pretty big.
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Rear fingerprint scanner PLEASE
I'm hanging on to my pixel 5 for this reason. And the smaller form factor.
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Replaceable battery
AUX plug
Expandable storage by SD card
Did I say replaceable battery already?
Edit: oh and non-edged screens (the roundings on the side, don't know the official name... But it sucks and almost all flagship phones have them, or at least when I bought mine 3 years ago, don't know about now tbh)
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About a month ago I lost outlined text. Currently I can only do highlighted text, which looks awful everywhere. I can't believe I need to post this in 2025:
