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For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Pretty much everything the Galaxy S5 had

  • Notification LED
  • IR blaster
  • Replaceable battery
  • Headphone jack
  • Heart rate monitor
  • SD card slot

I currently use a FP3 which has 4 out of the 6 features above, which I feel is the best we'll get right now.

Admittedly the Heart rate monitor is more of a gimmick nowadays, especially that it's standard and automatic on most smartwatches and sports watches. Back then when stuff like the Sony Ericsson LiveView and LG W100 watches were popular, they did not have heart rate sensing built in

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All that while being water resistant, let's not forget! What an amazing phone

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

What do you mean water resistant? Phone with replaceable battery and headphone jack can't be water resistant! /s

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

IR blaster was the shit. Back then, there was an app called beep and go (I think) that held the barcodes for your loyalty cards. For someone that collected them like baseball cards, it was really handy.

Anyway, Samsung actually had the ability to transmit the barcode via the IR blaster which some scanners could read if they couldn't read the barcode on the phone.

It was awesome!

I agree that the heart rate monitor was a bit of a gimmick though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I used to fuck with friends with my "universal remote", and of course use my phone whenever i misplaced my own I miss that stupid feature the most

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I presume it's Fairphone 3?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fairphone 3. I have one as well, but upgraded it to the +model by installing a better camera

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Wow, cool that you can do that. 👍

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

IR blaster! I miss that feature. When my wife was sick in the hospital they had a TV with 10 stupid channels. But I found that the TV had a USB post. So I used a flash drive and my phone as the remote to let her watch TV shows while she was stuck in bed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait, Galaxy phones no longer have a SD slot??

Even their $120 tablet has that. Why the fuck doesn't a $1k phone have it?? 💩

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Pretty much all high end phones outside of Sony have omitted the headphone jack and SD card slot.

Samsung low end phone and low end phones in general still have it for example the galaxy a54 has it.

The reason why is they want you to spend more on storage upgrades.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And then they completely bork the file system with separate storage for every app. Nobody needs a dozen different folders for storing pictures, with no way to combine them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

A54 user here. I see no difference to upgrade to flagship except the camera

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The higher tier A series phones are pretty solid if you really want a Samsung anyway. S series is overkill for most people.