Poll: Which abandoned Android phone features do you miss the most?
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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:
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Trackball
is there at least a 3rd party accessory?
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3.5mm jack,
Compass,
Barometer,
GyroThese things are still in most modern phones.--
You'd be surprised at how many phones don't have enough accelerometers to know their full orientation in space. Compass, NFC, and barometer are also not givens.
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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.
Nothing has these 'glyph' lights, but software support for them seems to be pretty limited (not that I've looked too deep, all these modern phones are just boring). I hope they can come up with more controls for them, hardware seems to support quite complex patterns.
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Samsung had a little pressure sensitive area at the bottom of phone screens in the S9 era. It was handy and I had it set up like a hidden home button.
The S9 also had a variable aperture camera, which I feel like could have been developed a lot more.
I also miss notification LEDs. Sure, AOD mostly replaces it, but it was fun setting different colors for people, situations, etc
The Essential phone had a ceramic back that was very comfortable and cool in the hand. Though it was slippery. Another idea that could have been developed further.
The different back materials on the Moto X were very satisfying. The customization of that phone was unmatched!
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finger print scanner being on the back of the phone not under the screen. and headphone jack
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USB mass storage mode. Some Android phones can’t do it anymore. I always thought the ability to select a disk image your phone would offer up to a of to boot off of was the coolest feature one of the things that made this iPhone user envious but it’s becoming less common for such a feature to still work in Android.
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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)
Rounded screens have mostly fallen out of style. I kinda like them tbh
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Seems like an issue with buying cheap adapters rather than with the concept of adapters, cheap headphones will presumably break just as easily
What adapter do you use? Seriously, I am open to paying more for an adapter once instead of buying cheap adapters over and over.
