I know I have small hands but c’mon. Flagship phones these days are strait up small tablets, not even what we’d have called on phablets 15 years ago.

I know it’s what people buy, but I’m still sad that if I want a phone that small then I have to deal with camera and display a couple gens old

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      Nothing has come close to the soothing tactile perfection that was the N900.

      Its been 15 years. Nothing.

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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        16 days ago

        Omg, the N900 was the best phone I ever had.

        Linux, physical keebler, keyring/lanyard hole, an active camera cover, a proper camera button, even a little built in stand!

        So good.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I don’t think smartphone keyboards became usable until Swipe typing became a thing.

  • Gumus@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    The box for HTC HD2 had <---- BIG ----> as dimensions of the phone. It had a 4.3" screen that actually was huge at the time (2009), but it’s hilarious from today’s perspective.

    1000011514

  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    Companies trying to make foldable phones happen are going the wrong way.

    They are making giant phones that unfold into tablets when really they should be making small phones that unfold into something just large enough you can watch Netflix on.

  • cm0002@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I miss phones that experimented.

    I had the Motorola backflip (that was a fun one) and had one of the first phones with a fingerprint sensor that everyone said was a gimmick, had the one with the “indestructible screen” (Motorola Z2 force iirc) that I had a lot of fun throwing around till I broke it (But not the screen! I’ll give them that lmao), had every Nexus device until the bitter end (I cursed Google for a long time when they decided Pixels was the way forward, I didn’t pick up a pixel again until the Pixel Fold 0G) and so so many others over the years.

    Until one day they just stopped being cool for years, hell the Foldy phone has been the coolest innovation they’ve put out in years and we’re already back to nothing but iterations again

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I would vomit if I had to look at the Windows logo every time I pulled out my phone. Google is not perfect and they’ve made mistakes with Android, but at least it’s Open Source. Microsoft has a much worse record of opposing Open Source initiatives…

  • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I have large hands and I don’t like having to make the compromise of features or size. I prefer phones around 5in or a smidge under. But to have a modern camera I have an almost 7in phone. It’s really frustrating.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      This is the real problem.

      They do NOTHING to improve or innovate. In fact, we’ve lost most great features over the years. The headphone jack for high quality audio, the micro SD card slot for easy upgrades and migrations, the IR blasters, the replaceable batteries…

      It’s a fucking joke. Peak phone tech was the Samsung Galaxy S4.

      • daltotron@lemmy.ml
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        15 days ago

        Sorry, you gotta upgrade everything every 5 years, because otherwise there’s a security vulnerability! Sorry, looks like there will be no new updates on your software, no compatibility! Surely, things have become so much more efficient in the last 5 years as a result of processing gains, and surely that will be passed onto the consumer rather than eaten up in the middle, and surely we need that increased processing power so you can run the increasingly dwindling number of social media sites that are actually relevant!

        Sorry, looks like we got rid of the headphone jack because it takes up too much space and it’s too hard to make the phone water resistant! The IR blaster isn’t relevant anymore because everyone has unilaterally switched to wifi operated smart TVs! Surely! Sorry, the micro SD card slot took up too much space, we need to use that space for processing power! Same with irreplaceable batteries! Sorry, the 16:9 aspect ratio we used to have for phones isn’t available in any phone anymore, because we decided to replace the physical buttons and ugly bezels with basically unusable screen space! But we’re still gonna have a hole punched in the screen for the camera!

        I dunno. Modern phones are fucking dogshit now, I hate them so much it’s unreal. Even the software is progressively getting worse year over year. Shit used to be so basically functional and it’s become so horrible.

  • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    As you add more compute per user interaction (“smart” features), you increase power consumption. To keep an 18hour discharge cycle, you have to have more battery. Since phone thickness is a negative marketing feature but increased screen size is a positive marketing feature, you end up with bigger phones.

    Every time they reduce compute power consumption, feature inflation overtakes the gain and more power is needed over time. Try turning on battery saver in the morning… even with “normal” use the battery will last significantly longer due to disabling background power consumption.

  • biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    I’ve got pretty small hands but I am really comfortable with my 6.4 inch Oppo Reno Z, it has all the reachability I need, it isn’t too heavy or too light and it’s got a large enough display for me.

    I used to use a galaxy S4, which has a 5 inch display. I find the galaxy quite cramped and not very usable, but the AMOLED was just as good as the Reno Z, and even had better PPI.

    Something that would be pretty frustrating would be if phones get any larger, because I find that the sizes currently are pretty much perfect for everyone, although there should be more options when it comes to smaller phones.

  • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    16 days ago

    I wish I could get a flagship phone with a swappable battery, headphone jack, SD slot and allow my apps to interface with each other’s files when I want without having to fuck around with permission bullshit… I don’t care if it’s the size of a dinner plate

    • 🔍🦘🛎@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I bought them until they stopped making them… My favorite phone was the Sony Xperia X Compact with a 4.6" screen. It had decent midrange specs and a great camera.