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Porn, this meme used to say porn! Why do we keep self censoring?
I agree with the sentiment, but porn is maybe too restrictive. Phones basically became the new TV.
Good point, overall short form video apps must trounce porn sites
The social media algorithms that give us fake internet points have conditioned us to comply.
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It used to be porn but that was back when phone screens were 16:9. Now they are 18:9 and thats for vertical scrolling of social media feeds.
While porn is definitely part of it, you can also watch Futurama on your phone.
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Look at all that screen real estate. Utterly wasted on ads and super tall fonts.
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Would love a slightly thicker phone with a huge removable battery
also we have to encase our phones in cases because they're not durable enough to survive day to day life. they could be made more rugged from the factory
That's mostly because we care about aesthetics. My work phone is some Samsung flagship model from two years ago, I don't have a case for it (because I don't give a shit his it looks). Its with me on all factory visits in dirty production environments and what not, dropped it multiple times, stored in my pocket or just thrown in my bag. Screen is not cracked, sides and back are scratched and dinged up, but nothing is broken. They're plenty durable if you don't care about minor cosmetic things.
oh man your experience is so different from mine 😂
any phone i drop brings it a little closer to being completely non functional as long as it's not in a case.
but i do agree with you about one thing: it is all about aesthetic. there's tons of phones out there made with less shatterproof/scratch resistant glass, or think enough outer shells to protect their innards because when you buy a phone in a store you find the slim ones sexier
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I have small hands and I hate how few small phones there are now
I have larger than small hands and hate how few "small" phones there are.
I have hands and hate how few "small" phones there are.
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By stuff you mean animated GIFs of big breasted horse hung transgender anthropomorphic lions being violated by giant alien tentacles, right?
Just say porn
That's so obvious I didn't think it needed to be said. Who doesn't watch animated GIFs of big breasted horse hung transgender anthropomorphic lions being violated by giant alien tentacles?
Maybe if you're a kinky pervert you'd watch .mpeg of big breasted horse hung transgender anthropomorphic lions and giant alien tentacles doing missionary in a committed exclusive relationship exclusively for having kids, but nobody is that depraved.
The weight scale is misrepresented, though.
Now I’m mad
Good catch!
i would kill for button based menu navigation to come back
Why
ergonomic, don't have to move your hands.
tactile, don't have to watch the phone to navigate if you are familiar with what you are doing
"safer" since you can rest your hands while holding your device without worrying about accidental touch inputs that means you can have a firmer grip
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They got bigger so there was more room for ads.
Lots of "stuff" in my homework folder.
There’s an early Corner Gas episode where Brent and Davis get into a competition over who can get the smallest phone, it feels so odd watching it today.
i had a guy visit the office a couple months ago with a smarty phone that was smaller than my flip phone closed-up. i loved it. i decided then that if i ever did 'have to' get one--and i could afford it, it would be one of those (a jelly).
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I remember back in 1990ish, there was a guy involved in the local music scene who got interviewed on AM radio (Right before the rise of conservative talk radio, when there were still local hosts talking about local issues.). This guy wasn't a big shot and not a musician, just a guy passabout music. tmusic. He went by the moniker Jim Clevo, I had the fortune of meeting him once. Anyways, he had insight as to where the music industry was headed. In the interview, he told how in the future we would be listening to music through our phones. At the time high tech was a cordless landlines with an answering machine built in. He sounded crazy, i couldn't figure out why he thought we would all be holding phones up to our ears listening to music, I never had anything but a corded phone at the time. Not sure why I'm rambling about it other than this post reminded me of him.
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That Motorola RAZR in the middle, god that was an awesome phone. So sleek. Satisfying to close!
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And what if I don't want to watch "stuff" on my phone? My phone is supposed to be a portable "swiss-army-knife" of digital tools.
They made tablets for the other "stuff"
More like corporations realized that people with larger screens tend to browse more content and spend more time in their phones, so they made it the only available option, whether you like it or not.
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I think a lot of the reason phones are getting bigger is because of battery life. You can absolutely make a small phone with a big battery, but then it would be thicc and people (read plebs) don’t want little bricks, they want big slabs.
So for the few of us that want little bricks, we’re just entirely fucked. There are the Jelly phones, but they run Android, and I’d rather have a slab that spies on me a little less than a perfect brick filled to the brim with Google spyware.
I’m waiting and hoping and waiting and hoping that Linux phones get to the point where I can daily drive one.
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More like until mobile internet became affordable.
I say the screen grows constantly and the part of the phone that isn't screen decreases constantly. It's just that at some point the sum is getting smaller
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This graphic is missing the (de)evolution in phones when manufacturers unnecessarily started putting holes and notches in the screens.
#StopPuttingCutoutsInMyFuckingDisplays #BringBackBezels
Some phones go to the extreme, but my small circle camera cutout doesn't bother me. On a phone, it's always in the status/notification bar anyways so not a big deal unless you watch a lot of widescreen content.
The biggest deevolution must be audio jacks... the big lie of "we need to remove them so we can make your phones smaller", just for phones to get thicker. Surely it can fit.
I wish 2g and 3g weren't being dismantled. I want to go back to using my old razr
The modern 170 g is larger than the older 170 g, what a crock of shit
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2000 star tac flip phone…you were perfection. beam me up Scottie!
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