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Yet they “don’t have room” for a fucking headphone jack or clips for a removable back/battery.
Well, they’ll soon have room for a removable battery ✨
There’s unihertz, but their quality is unfortunately questionable. I’ve ordered a Clicks Communicator. It’s actually a similar size to a phablet, but using that space for a physical keyboard feels like I’m sending a message to the establishment.
I’m writing this on a King Kong Mini 2 and it’s sick, plus it only cost $100
If the Aiphor Bluefox NX1 had 5G and wasn’t prone to have the screen come loose I would probably try it. I prefer that one’s form to the rounded back of the Unihertz Jelly.
But with google working on making android their own walled garden I’m more interested in trying something like Jolla.
https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sep-ii-2026
I don’t know if I even want a damn screen anymore lol.
I got kinda conned into a Pixel 10 Pro XL. It’s huge and it’s heavy, and it doesn’t really feel that much more useful than the S10e it replaced.
What I want it for is basically a media player, quick internet look-upper, and maybe instant messenger. The ability to get “Hey I’m at the front entrance” and reply “Cool I’ll let you in”. My Galaxy S4 Mini did every piece of that.
It’s getting uncomfortably difficult to do without a cell phone. Everything wants to be an app. Like, it’s one thing when a restaurant allows you to order via app because then they can be making your order while you’re on your way to get it. But when they won’t print a menu, they’ll ONLY allow customers to order via an app, like a waiter comes up to your table and tells you you have to scan a QR code. Parking, public transit, starting into goddamn government functions, now require an app. Which is a problem if you VISIT a city rather than live there.
When I was a teenager, I would have been excited to have a powerful, capable computer with a fantastic screen and constant high speed internet access that fit in my pocket. But damn if they didn’t go and ruin it.
I’m starting to head this direction, at least mobile-wise. I haven’t yet because trying to live life without a cell phone is just not pleasant, But the only thing I really use my cell phone for is Discord, Firefox, and the camera
Mobile gaming, which I primarily had got a phone in the first place for has gone down the tube, It seems like every mobile game can fit into one of 4 categories.
- The live-action-style ones like Clash of Clans that you need money to progress in.
- The simulation idlers Where you don’t actually do anything, You just upgrade every once in a while.
- The match 3 clones where it disguises as a different game but the primary focus is matching,
- The bleed you dry energy style games where every action you do costs some form of in-game energy. That takes real time to regenerate.
Used to be able to find puzzlers or simulation games that were outside of that genre, but you can’t really anymore. I’m still circulating the same 4 games from when I had an s9 8ish years ago.
Social media is thoroughly screwed. You can’t go on there without some sort of ideology being pushed at you or toxicity.
Voice-mails and messaging is hit or miss of whether or not it’s someone trying to scam you.
every application out there wants to harvest every bit of data about your life because almost no country has any type of actual regulation against the collection of personal data.
Every once in a while, I look back to see how feasible it would be to go without, but far too many services require a phone number. Any platform worth its salt uses some form of two-factor authentication, which generally is either text message or an app-based two-factor.
Hell, It’s hard enough finding a bank that doesn’t require a cell phone. I just dumped my last bank due to that reason. They reconsolidated into a slightly larger company, and when they did, that parent company decided that consumers shouldn’t have the ability to write their own checks. So if I wanted to write a check, I had to log into the phone app, and then select Send a check, wait four to six business days for the bank to actually send the check themselves, and then wait for the three to four days on top of that to actually receive payments. I closed the account as soon as I got confirmation my funds transfered
Indeed, they should have to figure something out though because I don’t see a future where people are carrying around such large devices all the time, who really wants to lug these things around? It’s miserable. I wanted the small, cool, well designed tech future, instead we got the future headed by a bunch of small minded dumbasses who just want you to have the most ad space available on your mobile device.
I suppose that I’ve never been big on mobile gaming to begin with makes it easier for me, and I prefer to do most of my browsing on an actual computer at home. I guess that is pretty old fashioned now though, but I honestly think it is so much healthier. No one is really engaged with the present anymore, everyone talks about what their device told them about what is going to happen tomorrow or whatever. I’m sure that’s by design as well because if people are all disengaged from the present they will not notice they are being totally robbed.
Ok, I won’t buy a new phone then :)
Manufacturers killed compact phones because the same display panel costs the same whether it is 6.1 or 6.7 inches, so bigger screens unlock higher price tiers. The Xiaomi 17 and vivo X300 proving 7,500mAh batteries fit inside 6.3-inch bodies demolishes every excuse these brands hide behind.
There haven’t been any small phones for about 10 years.
I mean a regular, normal form factor phone, not a foldable.
irrelevant. tiny phones. They stopped making smaller screen phones because no one was buying them.
Then said manufacturers can get fucked.
Miss proper small phones with 6-inch screens or less?
No, my phone has a screen size of ~4 inches.
I guess I’m running my pixel 5 into the ground then… Tbh I miss my 5 inch pixel 2. That felt ideal to me.
Pixel 4a was such a nice phone in terms of form factor.
My pixel 6 is just a touch bigger than I’d like, running it til no more security updates then looking at dumb phones. Miss my old flip phone
Why do we call them smartphones? They are phablets.
Because phablet became mainstream so it doesn’t make sense to have a different word for them anymore.
Because phablet is a stupid word.
and smartphone isn’t?
Maybe a bit redundant these days. They’re effectively just “phones”.
Used to be that the label was needed to differentiate from earlier feature phones, but even the “dumb phones” of today primarily run some slimmed down flavor of Android. No one can escape the data harvest.
Remember the term “PDA” “Personal Digital Assistant?” From like the PalmOS days?
At this point a smart phone is a PDA that ate a cell phone to gain its power. I never hear the term PDA in the real world anymore, but video games use it for in-universe gadgets often used to justify the inventory menu or whatever. Subnautica does it.
My iPhone 12 mini is the perfect size. I don’t want to carry a damn tablet in my pocket. Maybe if I spent all day staring at it, I would, IDK.
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I love my Unihertz Jelly Star with its 3" screen! So small, its not easy to use so it stays in my pocket
I got a Jelly Star to use as a music player and I very seriously considered using it as my full-time phone for that exact reason. The only thing that held me back is I take a lot of pictures and the camera wasn’t quite up to snuff, and I’m not prepared to commit to also carrying a decent camera around all the time.
I’ll continue with my Nokia C2-01 then.
