Our poll results show that only a minority of you want the thinner phones that Apple and Samsung are promising.
If the slim phone has a camera bump then is not longer slim and I’m not interested.
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I don’t fucking care of having an even slimmer addictive machine in my pockets. Give me a phone that weights 400g but that has a fucking replaceable battery (that lasts 2/3 days), a good OS, doesn’t track me and I can set up as I want.
I want a small screen (about 5"), headphone jack, and unlockable bootloader. That’s all.
And a material you can actually grip. Pixel 9 be slippery af
Almost all the modern flagships have this garbage glass panel on the back that’s slippery and can break when dropped. I just don’t get it.
Yeah it became luxury products so basically fragile and not daily-use friendly
I bought the dbrand grip for the last 3 phones I’ve had, and it’s always been a great choice for me, highly recommend; but I shouldn’t have to spend $60 and increase the thickness of the phone by nealy 20% just to be able to hold on to the damn thing.
Replaceable screen and battery. Actually being able to drop in a new radio would be nice too. I only gave up my op7t because no 5g.
What benefits are you seeing from 5g? It’s obviously faster, but I rarely find myself bandwidth constrained on my phone.
SD Card also. dont forget the SD Card.
And removable battery. This will be coming for EU soon, hoping for the rest of us too.
Absolutely bonkers that a company can claim to be environmentally friendly despite their phones being practically disposable once the battery gets under 70% health.
For my own use, I don’t care much, but I agree in theory. My 128gb Pixel 4A has 32gb free and I do not actively manage space on it. Android’s handling of SD cards is kind of terrible, making them mostly useful for media files. If I did much photography or videography with my phone, I’d want this more.
Hotswappable batteries and an option for a keyboard would be nice too. Virtual keyboards seem like they’re getting shittier (at least on Android) and they never matched the accuracy of a regular keyboard.
I agree with you but also have you tried Heliboard, FlorisBoard, or FUTOKeyboard, Theyre all very decent FOSS* keyboard projects. I like HeliBoard myself.
*FUTOKb is Source available
Florisboard is pretty great
I have not. Thanks for the suggestions!
I use Heliboard myself and can second that recommend.
Also. Stop doing fucking sloped edge screens…
I’ll keep my thicc redmagic with a headphone jack and cooling fan that most likely costs 40% less
Damn I just checked this phone out. This is most likely gonna be my next upgrade.
I absolutely love it a lot.
However be aware the under-display selfie camera is pretty bad on the Redmagic 9, and the phone is not waterproof because of the fan and headphone jack. The rain won’t kill your phone but submerging it most likely will.
The battery life is amazing, the fast charging is pretty fast. I think I got 90% battery in less than an hour. And with the fan, it won’t overheat when charging, or at all lol
Also buy a case from Amazon, the case that comes with it is bad lmfao
Just want a phone with more RAM and less AI
Slim phones are coming, but most of you don’t want them
Our polls show that, if anything, you want thicker phones.
Yeah, some poll on a site for tech nerds is not really representative of the general public. Thick phones with huge batteries exist and they sell like shit, it’s a super niche market.
Expect these thin phones to sell like hotcakes.
That’s because everytime I see a thick phone it’s the size of my arm. In the same way a wafer thin phone is shit, so is 13 bricks glued together vertically.
A wafer thin iPhone won’t be shit though. It will be slick as shit. Sure, there will probably be compromises and it won’t be suitable for the most demanding users, but most people aren’t that demanding of their phone. As long as it manages to get through one day it’ll be good enough.
Don’t underestimate how important the size, weight, build quality and design is to the user experience. I have a 13” M4 iPad Pro which is also crazy thin yet feels absolutely solid and that makes it look and feel like a magical piece of technology. It has a huge impact on how it feels and that is ultimately what matters to people. Not the specs or the benchmarks, but how it feels to use it.
If it’s wafer thin it isn’t going to fit the battery I want it to fit. Thin, yes, wafer thin no. I understand size matters which is why the 20,000mah battery phones aren’t good either. iPad isn’t a fair comparison to a phone, more battery space
If it’s wafer thin it isn’t going to fit the battery I want it to fit.
Personally I don’t care about the size of the battery, I care about how long it lasts. There have been rumors that Apple is working on improved battery tech. Their SoCs are also crazy efficient and super fast.
What I expect to happen is that they will equip the iPhone Air with this next-gen battery tech (probably not a massive improvement, but something like 10-20% more energy in the same volume would already be a big win), combined with a throttled down SoC with fewer cores (still plenty fast for anyone but the most demanding users), that will allow them to reduce power usage by a lot. Add to that the already excellent power-management in iOS, maybe tweaked a little more aggressively, and they’ll have a phone that’s super thin and lasts all day.
People will hold this phone for 3 seconds and be sold.
having a larger battery capacity can allow you to charge other devices from the phone, like wireless earbuds.
Something I’ve never done, or wanted to do, in my life.
Plus it means they’ll definitely have an inaccessible battery. More of that is the last thing many people want.
But it’s what certain fruity company and its Dieter Rams wannabe designer in chief made into a trend (along with soldered memory slots and other abominations) because aEsThEtIcZ - despite its implications not only on repairability but sustainability.
My phone is already slim. Most of it is a quarter inch thick. It makes it hard to hold already.
People are still gonna bolt a protective case, screen protector, popsocket, magnifying glass, and a hairdryer to their phone so what does it matter?
0.5 + 0.3 < 0.8 + 0.3
what kind of argument are you making, wtf
Let’s just make all phones 5cm thick, obviously it doesn’t matter?
Obviously thinner is better if you don’t have to compromise on anything else
I’m kidding. I thought it was obvious when I added the hairdryer bit.
Desgustang. Naked phone is the only way.
nudist phone gang 👍
Same thinking here… who can afford a phone without proper case. That case adds bulk and provides option for whatever thickness.
With that being said why not make battery biggers. I don’t think i ever heard anyone say they needed thinner phone…
Manufacturers want them - they break more easily
Thank you daddy
EVERY SINGLE TIME
Good read on the PR angle here, corpo is literally telling us we getting them, like it or not, boy!
I want a battery that lasts a week, a headphone jack, and an eink screen.
That’s what I don’t get. If they can make a phone that is thinner but lasts 2 days, why not double the battery and make it last 4??
Yup just what I want: giant, wafer thin, easily cracked garbage phones that cost $1600. /S
I’ve seen the light and I’m not going back. From now on I don’t care how chunky the phone is, I don’t want it to not fit in my pocket due to its stupid phablet dimensions.
Haven’t phones been getting slimmer and slimmer for the past 10 years or so?
They’re working on making them so fragile they cannot even be shipped without breaking.
I want a headphone jack, removable storage, and a grandma leather s view case … wait a minute, i already have one, it’s my Galaxy S10, and it still runs flawlessly and has saved me multiple thousands of dollars replacing it with something that doesn’t have any of those things, thanks Samsung, you made a helluva phone 6 years ago, and I’m runnin this back bitch until the wheels come off
I’m still rockin an S9+! The only issue is that my headphone jack is now gaped and will no longer retain any headphones. I’m currently using a USB-to-3.5mm adapter, but it was nice to be able to distribute the load when they were both available. I’m not sure a single USB-C port would have held up for 7 years if it was doing both jobs full-time.
