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What discontinued feature do you miss from phones or other technologies? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Well, I suppose is old/discontinued, but my current phone has a motorized camera (Poco F2 Pro) I am not a selfie guy, so I could not care less about it, having no notches nor punch hole camera is nice AF.

You can even hide the navigation pill and mix it with some apps like Connect for Lemmy and you literally get 100% of content in your screen lol.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fyi it's 'couldn't care less'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, already corrected it :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

👍 I don't like being "that guy" but with this one it makes the sentence not make sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have the Zenfone 8 Flip for the same reason. I also don't care about selfies but for people who do it's great because it uses the rear camera for selfies.

I'll never have a phone with that dumb notch til that's all that's available