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I for one have a feeling we've reached the plateau of form and function some time ago already: a slab with a touchscreen on one side and some camera(s) on the o
by drbig 2y ago
I for one have a feeling we've reached the plateau of form and function some time ago already: a slab with a touchscreen on one side and some camera(s) on the other.
In other words: smartphones got boring, which often goes with maturity ( :-) ).
The "AI features", "folding this way", "folding that way" - sure, cool to have some gimmicks - perhaps actually important features in some (niche?) use-cases?
Smartphone is a tool nowadays, in many cases a rather inescapable one (auth, banking, transport...). And please remember: there is no force of nature making you install news/social media apps and then doom scroll.
- wazoox 2y agoIndeed. I'm still using the phone I bought in 2017 (OnePlus 5T) and it's still 100% adequate. In fact, my wife is still using my previous 2013 OnePlus One and though it's a tad slow and cramped in storage, it's still 100% adequate running LineageOS.
- lloeki 2y agoSometimes I really wish I didn't brick my OnePlus X, it was a good and simple device. Perfect for a spare fallback phone or a main one acting like a dumb-ish phone with QoL smart features (like camera, navigation, bank apps, music, totp...) (I bricked it because some bootloader flash part had a stupidly low write limit, and I burned them by updating the bootloader one time too many) Also loved my BB Z10, I wish it could have been community-maintained in some way (either BB liberating the OS or someone hacking Android onto it)