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UI performance in Androids is decent these days. Privacy, well... no. Even within the Android ecosystem, it's very sad that innovation is stymied. The only one
by GFischer 8y ago
UI performance in Androids is decent these days. Privacy, well... no.
Even within the Android ecosystem, it's very sad that innovation is stymied. The only ones that even try are LG and they always fall flat.
There's a long list of different Android phones I'd like to see:
- Keyboard / Accessible phones. My mother in law has some disabilities that prevent her from using a touch-phone and she's using an Android phone with keyboard for messaging. Once it breaks, I'll be hard pressed to find a replacement
- Small size phones with decent specs. Lots of people are very vocal about that, a current coworker spent a lot of time searching and got frustrated, the only small phones available were basically dumbphones
- Specialist phones, I can't believe we still don't have phones with physical camera button and better swappable lenses (I think Sony tried that one, and there are some add-ons).
Sure there are a lot more undeserved niches.
- ppseafield 8y agoI miss the camera button on my Nokia 928. All of the Windows phones were required to have it. Now my Nexus 5X occasionally opens the camera when I don't want it to (It thinks or is accidentally triggered for a double power button press.) I looked into phones with physical keyboards a couple years ago for my mother, and I couldn't find anything except an old LG feature phone that hadn't been manufactured in years. I had a Samsung S3 mini that was a bit slow but worked alright. Battery was a problem, but the phone was old when I got it. It worked well for most things except extensive reading. I had an Alcatel Idol 3, and the display was pretty low resolution for its screen size, but I would get almost two days of battery out of it between charges. Unfortunately the physical power button broke.
- ascii_only 8y ago-keyboard Blackberry key2 -small size Sony xz2 compact
- lucb1e 8y agoMy mom has one of those compact Sonys, it's laden with crapware that pop up notifications day and night and cannot be uninstalled. Her being her, she doesn't know what to do with it all. I am going to take a good look at the phone again soon, but I honestly can't recommend Sony to anyone who isn't tech savvy and/or doesn't intend to root it (I guess I should have after all -- by now many hours went into configuring it, and since you can't back an Android phone up properly, I'd have to redo all of that).
- GFischer 8y agoCool, I'll have to hunt for a Blackberry key2 then. Thanks for the tip!
- oxplot 8y agoOn Android, you can assign volume buttons to be there shutter button. You can also open the camera at anytime even when locked, by double clicking part button.
- GFischer 8y agoYeah, and none of those options work as well as the camera button in the old Nokias (I was a happy Nokia user as well, but they missed the boat with their software, even though their hardware was top notch)
- oxplot 8y agoThis is a matter of taste. It works better for me. I have used phones, Sony's specifically, that do sport a dedicated button. I never used them because I'm not used to the location of the button I use once in a while. The power button however I use multiple times an hour so I can put the phone into camera mode and take a photo with my eyes closed.
- megy 8y agoI think every single phone in the last 10 years uses a volume button as a shutter.
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