The "bare minimum for a non-disposable, consumer friendly, half environmentally responsible phone" starter pack.
Also the custom ROM ability should not be merely a bonus. IMO it needs to be legally mandatory even above standardised charging connectors. It costs effectively nothing to implement because the base OS and general architecture supports it by default, the manufacturer simply needs to not disable it, and it is by far the most important thing for keeping a device from becoming unusable and possibly even a cybersecurity risk with age. Also just in principle, I paid for the hardware I should be able to put my own software on it.
RIP power user geared phones
Everything Android is now tooled for the hyper casual iPhone leaning demographic since they are the majority.
Oh look, phones from circa 2017!
More than anything I want a hardware keyboard.
No, not Bluetooth, not tacked on, not in a case, not vibrating emulation of buttons, not a half kilo Linux phone for terminal use, just a regular vertical phone with a keypad ffs.
Don't tell me it's difficult, when we get a dozen new gaming handhelds a month. They have buttons and Android. Don't tell me it's too expensive if Chinese factories can make a phone or handheld under 100€. Don't tell me there are no suitable displays, when there clearly are displays of all shapes and sizes. Don't tell me there's no interest when there are thousands of phone models on the market and everyone is fighting to find any niche to squeeze into. It's clearly absolutely doable, it's been done both well and cheap, just the phone vendors are absolutely dense.
I think “discontinued after one year” would be a fun punchline here, like the “perfect r/cars car” being a “brown, manual transmission, V8 wagon that’s used from the factory”
FYI: I did not expect this to pick up so much traction. First few days on Lemmy seem to be a success!
Idk if it is an unpopular opinion or not but I want a camera which can also work as a phone. Like cameras are already the main focus of most flagships, might as well put in a proper camera with one lens and use it. Maybe going thicker will also help reduce the size of the phone in other dimensions.
TBH I would rather just use apps on my windows tablet, if the good apps were on it but then I would also rather Linux which has even fewer tablet apps
Lol. My Samsung galaxy S3 did all this!
Oh man. That sounds fucking awful.
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My s10e was fantastic. But then I went the opposite direction with a S22U for the camera.
I miss the notification LED the most.
Don't forget to the FM radio... It's a life saver!
since when are SD card slots not standard?
The battery would be nice, I don't care about the 3.5 honestly especially with usb c headphones, I don't really want "compact" just a little smaller than my current pixel 7 pro, the notification dot was neat but it's not really a necessity imo, and the SD card is really only helpful for shit tons of video
Almost all of the people I know who bitch about these features being gone never really utilized them in the first place. Quite frankly I think it’s more about being contrarian than anything.
Virtually no one I know carried around multiple batteries or needed more storage. The only people I knew who carried around multiple batteries were people who worked in carriers where easy access to charging wasn’t available. Phone storage is so large now it’s not really believable really anyone needs expandable storage. Hell, I have a 128gb iPhone with literally thousands of pictures and videos going all the way back to 2012, audio books, and digital books on it and still have room to spare. Sure there’s going to be the rare exception, but those people are the outliers not everyone else.
Wired headphones, I literally can’t tell the difference in sound quality between my AirPods and wired earbuds, and again, neither can most people. Bluetooth earbuds are SO convenient. They literally make some things so much easier and in some scenarios safer.
