I want a small screen (about 5"), headphone jack, and unlockable bootloader. That's all.
SD Card also. dont forget the SD Card.
Hotswappable batteries and an option for a keyboard would be nice too. Virtual keyboards seem like they're getting shittier (at least on Android) and they never matched the accuracy of a regular keyboard.
I agree with you but also have you tried Heliboard, FlorisBoard, or FUTOKeyboard, Theyre all very decent FOSS* keyboard projects. I like HeliBoard myself.
*FUTOKb is Source available
I have not. Thanks for the suggestions!
Florisboard is pretty great
For my own use, I don't care much, but I agree in theory. My 128gb Pixel 4A has 32gb free and I do not actively manage space on it. Android's handling of SD cards is kind of terrible, making them mostly useful for media files. If I did much photography or videography with my phone, I'd want this more.
I want a battery that lasts a week, a headphone jack, and an eink screen.
That's what I don't get. If they can make a phone that is thinner but lasts 2 days, why not double the battery and make it last 4??
People are still gonna bolt a protective case, screen protector, popsocket, magnifying glass, and a hairdryer to their phone so what does it matter?
Desgustang. Naked phone is the only way.
nudist phone gang 👍
0.5 + 0.3 < 0.8 + 0.3
what kind of argument are you making, wtf
Let's just make all phones 5cm thick, obviously it doesn't matter?
Obviously thinner is better if you don't have to compromise on anything else
I'm kidding. I thought it was obvious when I added the hairdryer bit.
Yup just what I want: giant, wafer thin, easily cracked garbage phones that cost $1600. /S
I've seen the light and I'm not going back. From now on I don't care how chunky the phone is, I don't want it to not fit in my pocket due to its stupid phablet dimensions.
Just want a phone with more RAM and less AI
I want a phone that stops falling out of my hands man...
True. Everytime I get a new phone I go through around 6 different cases trying to find one that's somewhat comfortable to hold.
This here! 🤣 😅 😆
True. I want a bulky ass phone with more power, more storage, more battery life, and more accessory compatibility. I want a BRICK
Not very impressive when you also make it longer and wider. You're just pancaking the phones.
Were in desperate need of a small thick, emovable battery / sdcard pocket rocket.
My Oneplus 6, Oneplus 9, and Pixel 8 Pro are all around the same size. The best one from feel alone is the OP6 because it feels solid and it's a bit heavier. Lighter and thinner are way less interesting to me compared to the possibility of 3 day battery life, a headphone jack, or modular construction.
Plus it means they’ll definitely have an inaccessible battery. More of that is the last thing many people want.
But it's what certain fruity company and its Dieter Rams wannabe designer in chief made into a trend (along with soldered memory slots and other abominations) because aEsThEtIcZ - despite its implications not only on repairability but sustainability.
Slim phones are coming, but most of you don't want them
Our polls show that, if anything, you want thicker phones.
Yeah, some poll on a site for tech nerds is not really representative of the general public. Thick phones with huge batteries exist and they sell like shit, it’s a super niche market.
Expect these thin phones to sell like hotcakes.
That's because everytime I see a thick phone it's the size of my arm. In the same way a wafer thin phone is shit, so is 13 bricks glued together vertically.
A wafer thin iPhone won’t be shit though. It will be slick as shit. Sure, there will probably be compromises and it won’t be suitable for the most demanding users, but most people aren’t that demanding of their phone. As long as it manages to get through one day it’ll be good enough.
Don’t underestimate how important the size, weight, build quality and design is to the user experience. I have a 13” M4 iPad Pro which is also crazy thin yet feels absolutely solid and that makes it look and feel like a magical piece of technology. It has a huge impact on how it feels and that is ultimately what matters to people. Not the specs or the benchmarks, but how it feels to use it.
If it's wafer thin it isn't going to fit the battery I want it to fit. Thin, yes, wafer thin no. I understand size matters which is why the 20,000mah battery phones aren't good either. iPad isn't a fair comparison to a phone, more battery space
If it's wafer thin it isn't going to fit the battery I want it to fit.
Personally I don’t care about the size of the battery, I care about how long it lasts. There have been rumors that Apple is working on improved battery tech. Their SoCs are also crazy efficient and super fast.
What I expect to happen is that they will equip the iPhone Air with this next-gen battery tech (probably not a massive improvement, but something like 10-20% more energy in the same volume would already be a big win), combined with a throttled down SoC with fewer cores (still plenty fast for anyone but the most demanding users), that will allow them to reduce power usage by a lot. Add to that the already excellent power-management in iOS, maybe tweaked a little more aggressively, and they’ll have a phone that’s super thin and lasts all day.
People will hold this phone for 3 seconds and be sold.
I don't fucking care of having an even slimmer addictive machine in my pockets. Give me a phone that weights 400g but that has a fucking replaceable battery (that lasts 2/3 days), a good OS, doesn't track me and I can set up as I want.
Let's see, decreased durability, decreased battery life...what are the advantages again?
That being said AA should (and probably does) know better. Their audience is not representative of the typical consumer.
I've got the newest Samsung and it's already so slim that the cameras are sticking out.
And so slippery that I don't dare use it without a case, defeating the entire purpose.
I'd rather have a thicker phone with more battery life and space for more than just a USB-C port.
I recently upgraded my Pixel, and the old one is sitting on my desk. I took the case off and put it down, and without it, it just slides right off the desk and hits the floor! It's ridiculous!
I want something between 'feature phones' and smartphones. A little bit like what Nokia had to offer with Symbian and Maemo but more modern. If you want a rectangle of glass that requires wireless proprietary everything and replacing every time the battery starts packing up, more power to you, I'm a fan of choice and options.
But I want to be able to buy a music phone with great speakers and toys like FM transmitters thrown in. Or a gaming phone with a d-pad, a, b, x, y and shoulder buttons. But like, with Firefox instead of Opera Mini. And social media apps and shit.
I just want this with modern security updates, unlocked bootloader and enough performance. That's it. Small screen FTW!
The xz1 compact was a favorite for me. Little bit newer, slightly smaller.
Iphone 6 "Bend-Gate" 2: Electric Boogaloo
If the slim phone has a camera bump then is not longer slim and I’m not interested.
I'm going on 9 years with this current phone. I want my next phone to last double that, at least.
Wow, what phone is still working fine after 9 years????
I feel like 5 years is generally the upper limit of usage due to battery issues, spontaneous hardware failure, slowness due to advancing tech standards, etc. A user serviceable device would be able to help with some of these things but still...
Not parent poster but my LG G2 just works(tm), been going for 12 years now.
It's a Samsung A5 (not Galaxy). I didn't really think much of it when I got it, and it started to slow down a few years ago, but I just keep clearing space to speed it up and it just keeps working. Would probably last 2 full days on the battery, so never have to think about that as long as I charge it over night. Not to shill, but at this point I'm rightly impressed. It just works.
Some apps like Slack have stopped working on it, but nothing that would make me switch to a newer phone.
for the 10 year anniversary you should give it a cake
My phone is already slim. Most of it is a quarter inch thick. It makes it hard to hold already.
Also. Stop doing fucking sloped edge screens...
Haven't phones been getting slimmer and slimmer for the past 10 years or so?
They're working on making them so fragile they cannot even be shipped without breaking.
Yeah. Y'all can keep that.
I use 2 phones. Far better than foldables, can upgrade independently.
I absolutely would want the lightest/thinnest phone possible that is god enough for phone calls/texting, and then my other phone is gaming, and mostly home phone stuff.
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