For me itās the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up
Headphone jack, bigger batteries, front facing speakers, SD card slot, IR blaster, magnetic field to let you use your credit cards at check out from your phone (MST) - THROUGH THE ACTUAL CARD READER SO THEY DIDNāT NEED GOOGLE/APPLE/SAMSUNG WALLET WHATEVER THE FUCK. I also agree that I miss the light too lol
That said, hereās what I canāt stand in newer phones: camera bumps. Unless youāre a droid x or Nexus get that rocking on any flat service while Iām trying to type shit outta here. I donāt give a shit about my cameras but if they need to be that fat and advanced, just make the rest of the phone that fat and give me the extra battery instead of making a tiny stovetop in the corner. Fuckin weird and dumb. Also camera cutouts in the screen, put that shit under the screen or set it next to a front facing speaker on the bezel. Also bezel-less phones, I know weāre trying to fill our phones with screens but my fat palms donāt care about that when Iām accidentally touching everything on the side while holding it
My personal pet peeve is pre-installed, un-removable software and apps. My current mobile phone for example has apps that link to twitter, facebook, amazon etc. none of which I will ever use, but you can somehow not delete them. Why do I need to have that virtual junk in my phone?
Especially when they can be DISABLED, but not UNINSTALLED. Grinds my gears.
This might help you. https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater
I was going to mention the IR blaster. I had one on my LG G4 & G5 if I remember correctly. It was so cool! I was so bummed when they stopped having it.
You can control everything support IR controller(receiver) with that. Like TV or window AC unit
Some phones still have em, most Xiaomi phones do but then you gotta put up with their software or be comfortable flashing a custom ROM.
I love having an IR blaster in my phone mostly cause my work doesnāt trust us with air conditioning remotes but also I never have to stress about finding the right remote for everything since Iāve got anything I might interact with daily that uses an IR remote programmed into my phone.
THROUGH THE ACTUAL CARD READER SO THEY DIDNāT NEED GOOGLE/APPLE/SAMSUNG WALLET WHATEVER THE FUCK
Thatās not an issue, Iām assuming you mean the establishment didnāt need it, but just to cover my bases Iāll give you both scenarios:
- either youāre talking about your phone needing an app, which was still the case for the magnetic card thing, but I doubt you were talking about this.
- or more likely, you are talking about the place youāre paying needing a new PoS for receiving NFC based payment. In this case the issue is from the retailers trying to get another cut of the money by making you go through their app, when they can receive that payment via tap to pay which is also a thing on new cards, I have used them both in my country without any issue because we donāt have those ass backwards retailers, thereās an issue of the person taking payment being unaware and trying to enable another mobile based payment method instead of just setting it to card based payment.
Honestly this irks me to no end. We now have thousand dollar phones with all the speed, Ai capabilities, design, cameras, speakers, etc. Everything you couldāve wanted at its best in terms of performance, picture and camera quality, AI featuresā¦ Except now youāre missing headphone jacks, replaceable batteries, Ir blasters, SD cards, extra Sim slotsā¦ Like, really, a thousand dollars for a phone and it has less features than a 200 dollar phone? Less features than phones from 6 years ago? Why the fuck have we sacrificed so much?? We had the chance to have a long golden era of long lasting, everything capable phones, but instead weāre stuck with boring bricks that do less than before, last less due to batteries wearing out, and come bloated with shit that you donāt need and canāt remove.
We seriously need some phone company out there to spec the fuck out of a high end phone with all these features, AND which meets GrapheneOS requirements and lets us flash the phone with whatever the fuck we want. Weāve gone completely backwards on phones, and itās becoming more and more pointless to upgrade, youāre just changing phones for the batteries these days.
I miss htc lol, the One was PERFECT at the time, and I remember Loving the Nexus 6P as well
htc lol, the One was PERFECT
PRC agents loved you having it too! #LOLIsNotPunctuation
I suspect that the magnetic feature you desire is pretty unique to the usa. Anywhere else Iāve been in the world was chip or tap. Swiping the card would throw an error to use the chip only. So that country is just really far behind.
The US was actually one of the first places the feature was removed, because (according to Samsung) thereās not really a need for it anymore since so many places adopted tap to pay so early. So we are actually just too far ahead in that regard for my taste lol. Itās also probably good to note that I havenāt seen this feature since the S20. (Also I definitely think Samsung exaggerated that and it was just cheaper to get rid of).
Still a very handy feature that I miss, thereās ALWAYS places you go that are still behind tech-wise XD
100% of this. Itās not just that I donāt need the screen space, itās that my hands are not capable of holding my s22 without touching the screen because they had the fucking stupid idea to wrap the screen around the sides. Iām convinced the engineers at samsung are running an experiment to see how fucking stupid their phones can get without losing sales.
Never knew there was something like a āmagnetic fieldā how did that work?
It was MST, I know some Samsung phones had them, and it was used at credit card checkouts for stores that donāt have the nft/tap to pay. As far as I know it literally spoofed the magnetic field your credit card makes, so the credit card reader would think you swiped it. Super handy at stores that arenāt caught up with the tech when you didnāt have your wallet lol
My current phone has all the things you listed except MST (never heard of that before though), and I bought it specifically for those reasons. Made by Xiaomi who still seems to want to give users features for some reason. Unlocked, rooted, custom rom, the whole shebang, Iām very happy with it.
It does still have a small front camera hole and a big back camera bump, but I donāt mind those personally. Though I do wish the camera bump wasnāt off centre. And like someone mentioned, I do wish it had an indicator led somewhere.
