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There's a few elephants in the room here, the biggest being battery time. You'd be surprised how many people would give you a blank stare if you told them their
by zmmmmm 16y ago
There's a few elephants in the room here, the biggest being battery time. You'd be surprised how many people would give you a blank stare if you told them their next phone needs to re-charged almost every night
There's no fundamental reason Android devices won't emerge that have awesome (or at least, way better) battery life. We haven't seen demand for that in western markets simply because the high end phone space is dominated by flashy hardware and high end features. Android is very flexible and scales down to surprisingly low end device specs.
- moe 16y agoWell, there's only so many trade-offs you can make on a cheap phone. A touchscreen is not only a big cost-factor and battery-drainer but also impairs usability of the core feature (making calls) significantly. You can't read it in bright sunlight, you can't make calls "blind" because there's no keypad/tactile feedback, and even my high-end android has nasty input-lags - whereas all my old dumbphones respond instantly to any keypress. Sure, you could cut out the touchscreen and still run android but that's hardly a smartphone then...