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Storage upgrades cost too much, and we need microSD cards back
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So many useful features lost in service to slim and waterproof theoretically. Replaceable batteries, external storage, 3.5mm jack...
Negative. It was all bullshit to upscale with phones. Remove an sd slot that takes up virtually no space and then charge an extra $300 for a phone with more space when the storage chip in the phone costs $20. Same for the headphone jack. Now people are buying branded earbuds every few years for hundreds of dollars. phone storage sizes haven't increased for the past like 8 years because they want you forced into paying for cloud storage.
I have a phone right now from China with a headphone jack, cooling fan, and 1 tb storage, and it was less than a thousand bucks. It's waterproof and plenty slim with a 7500mah battery.
All the shitty things about Samsung and apple.. all the things they removed were all so they could turn around and sell you more. It has nothing to do with size constraints or waterproofing.
what phone do you have with a cooling fan?
Nubia Red Magic 11pro.
Android $1000. 1TB hard drive, 7500mah battery, 24GB of the fastest ram in any phone, best processor\apu of any android, built in cooling fan, and (mainly a gimmick, but looks cool) liquid cooling for the battery, invisible front camera, ir blaster to control TVs, headphone jack, and two touch buttons on top for gaming.
Phone is really awesome.
Bad parts are a locked bootloader, only 2 or 3 years of updates, and the only carrier that it works well with is t mobile, due to missing frequency bands other carriers use, and the cameras aren't as good as any flagship phones from the last several years.
Sony literally has one of the most waterproof phones.
It is IP68 AND IP 65 rated (submersion and jets) which pretty much no other phones have.
Headphone jack and SD card.
It is a complete lie for profit. Just like getting rid of chargers without lowering the price.
hi, sorry, which phone?
Which one is that? If it's not bloated up with crapware it sounds like one on a future considerations list.
What does that mean? As far as I understand, IP ratings don't work like that. It's either IP65 or it's IP68. It can't be both.
Water RESISTANT.
These are all lies made by tech companies to spend less on engineering and production costs while selling products at the same (or higher) price.
Yep I had a waterproof android 2.3 phone that had a removable battery, microSD slot, headphone jack, and FM radio all included. There were seals around the battery door-flap and rubber plugs for the USB and headphone jacks to keep water out. Another phone I had had all those features minus the FM radio, but it had an IR blaster to control TVs and shit. Smartphones used to be more serious multi-tools, and now they're just fancy computer tablets with cameras.
I had an HTC phone many years ago, with a headphone jack. The official instructions, for cleaning the screen, were to run it under the tap and give it a wipe lol.
I miss phones being real tools.
My phone is as thin as I'm comfortable with it being, I have grabbed a snorkel and watched movies underwater, and it takes an sdcard.
It also has a headphone jack, but I'm not comfy using that underwater and had to use BT headphones for that.
You didn't sacrifice for shit. It was stolen from you. Voting with your wallet isn't a real option.
So what are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about all the comforts of modernity being stolen from you as its weight and terror and heat come crashing down? You can't go back. There is no back, not with the planet like this. Not that you survive. What are you gonna do about it?