For me its the ‘Knock Code’ that LG had on their phones (I really wish LG still made at least the V series phones)

Basically there was a four-square area and you set up a sequence of where you would tap to unlock the phone. That set of squares was only shown when you set up the code

Then, to unlock your phone, you would tap those areas in the sequence you set up (even with the screen off).

Fingerprint readers are nice, but I really do miss the knock code

Edit: did find this article with a way to do the knock code, but if done wrong, could brick your phone I guess.

Plus, article is from 2014. When I looked at XDA’s info on it (they also being the developers) it looks like development on it is over, but individual modules may or may not still be supported by their devs

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Headphone jack

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And its buddy SD card slot.

Why phone manufacturers? Why?

You condemn us to dongle life.

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It’s all about selling the solution to a problem they created.

No SD card slot? You are forced to upgrade since you cannot store anything more than what they allow.

No headphone jack? Hope you like buying our inferior first party wireless earbuds or the shitty dongle thing.

Next up on the chopping block will be the charging port in favor of wireless charging, I swear.

By that point, I think I would rather just buy a phone that has all of those features and replace the components as needed instead of upgrading while also having a burner phone I can transfer whatever “e-sim card” they force upon me.

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I stopped buying Samsung phones because of this bullshit

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Hope you like buying our inferior first party wireless earbuds

You don’t have to buy phone brand headphones. There are other wireless ones.

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14 points

Look, we have made a 1TB SD card!

Too bad you can’t use it.

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My first smart pocket device had two SD slots, a full-sized one and a mini- one, accessible at all time with no bullshit attached. I remember using it to share photos between people’s cards right at the end of parties. I thought it can only get better from there.

Now I’m typing it from the phone that’s twice the size and if I were to attempt ejecting my microSD card / SIM tray, it’ll shutdown.

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I got the Xperia 1IV specifically because it still had a headphone jack and an SD card slot :)

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I wont buy a phone without one out of principle

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How come? The issue is solved

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Yeah, the lack of hardware features issue is solved by buying superfluous crap, and that’s lame

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It’s funny really. When the iPhone 7 came out, without a headphone jack, I’d been using Bluetooth headphones for years with iPhones 5/6 for a few years, so the lack of a jack in my next phone didn’t bother me at all.

My last couple of iPhones haven’t had a port, and instead of using a dongle, I’ve wandered back to using an iPod instead, so the lack of a port still doesn’t bother me. I have used a dongle, but only occasionally.

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