• Certified Asshole
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    426 days ago

    I don’t want a dumb phone, I want a reliable PDA that doesn’t hallucinate it’s smarter than me. Older android on a current hardware could’ve been the best but it’s not supported anymore by major devs. As a consumer, I don’t understand why that’s the case. I’m not interested in their new design choice or whatever they market it with while bloating the shit out of it, I want a low-powered portable PC to edit docs and browsing the web without eating through 8gb and 6000mah like it’s nothing.

    • @heavy
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      226 days ago

      Some new competiton would be nice too. I remember when companies like Palm made their own competent OS. I wouldn’t even mind if Windows mobile made a reappareance. What do people even need anymore except a versatile browser and the ability to play games?

      • Captain Aggravated
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        326 days ago

        Communication, GPS, web browsing, camera, occasional use as a flashlight, media player, and a multifunction clock. And yeah that’s about it.

        • Certified Asshole
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          126 days ago

          And make them with a high-rez multi-touch screen for old screens sucked ass at typing.

            • Certified Asshole
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              225 days ago

              It’s true, but it’s no longer a reality. Keyboards now can only happen in dumb phones or some luxury concept phones. It’s against a couple of current paradigms: making phones easily replaceable, incentivizing quick and short-term usage, having full control over UI\UX, maximizing interactive screen’s real estate, making sure you always look at the screen, and, besides that, engineering challenges that are kinda hard by themselves, but moreso they are in a conflict with banning replaceable batteries, holes for headphones and so on. We are out of luck.

              Nevertheless, I’d probably do any stupid thing to get the modern version of something akin to that beast.

              Nokia N9000 slider with a full physical keyboard