Ooh, maybe a dedicated AI button right next to the power button that can’t be turned off or used for any other function that you accidentally hit all of the time.
Superglue.
Better yet not to buy such a phone in the first place.
My LG G8 all but got “upgraded” to this, it was a dedicated Google assistant button, right next to the power switch, and the assistant became AI. Thankfully, while you were unable to remap the button you could still just turn it off, I did that pre AI because I just never used assistant and kept accidentally hitting the button. There are a lot of things I miss about that phone, the AI button is not one of them.
My BlackBerry had a notification LED that I could set to different colors and based on the type of notification. Made it super easy to see if there was something I needed to look at without picking it up. I miss that.
Early Android phones had that, too. A very neat feature they got rid of.
My Motorola Moto E2 had a notification LED but for some reason it was disabled in software and I never saw it until I installed LineageOS. I was shocked seeing a random white light turning on under the bezel
They also took your FM radio
Cells phones outside the US could even record FM. All the technology that was kept from us because of things like copyright is staggering.
Yep, I remeber doing it a few times. Didn’t know phones in the US couldn’t record.
My dad has a Poco phone that came with FM radio from 2020 but Poco pulled an asshole move and pushed a firmware update a few years later that uninstalled the radio app on each reboot
Yeah, there have been a number of cool technologies we never got because of the copyright lobby. Hell, they almost banned the VHS player.
I lowkey kinda wish Fairphone would make a new phone that has an aux port for the craic. And an FM radio built in too. Use the aux port as an antenna like how older phones did before they stopped doing it.
I hate when people take away the freedom that people already have and claim it’s in the name of improvement. This applies in technology or anything.
What about telecommunication companies conspiring with phone developers to force communication into the different buckets of data, voice, and text and then charge us for each?
This reminds me when cellphone companies used to charge for sms sent lmao
That’s what I’m talking about, before cell phones were a thing, they weren’t a thing. When they were becoming a thing they specifically conspired to segregate data into different streams so they could rip us off. And yeah 30 cents to send a 140 Byte chunk of data
Something I “love” about my current phone is it has like a 60gb hard drive. This could hold all of the photos I will ever take for the rest of my life. But it keeps trying to put them on the cloud, and then it complains that I’m running out of space because my free 5 gigs on the cloud are full. I never wanted to save anything to the cloud in the first place… just save them into my phone… this is fucking stupid.
Pardon me, we’d like to spy on you, but space is expensive, could you possibly be willing to pay for us to look through your photos?
Microsoft onedrive is the same shit. Don’t you want to keep backups? It literally costs us pennies, how about $100 a year?
Syncing to the (i)cloud is a setting you can uncheck. You can ask chatgpt how to do that, or maybe your mom. Btw, a 60GB drive is not enough, by far. My fullframe camera disapproves of your lack of awareness… ;-)
Disable backup in Google/Apple Photos then?
I love modern phone cameras. My Pixel 10 pro takes pretty amazing pics and I’m on graphene so I don’t worry about being watched. I do miss headphone jacks. I’ve been thinking about getting a portable DAC/amp and going back to wired headphones but I’m already carrying 2 devices because of my diabeetus, and I’m likely going to have a work phone soon as well.
Activate Multi-User mode under GrapheneOS + add your work profile there.
PS: There are a few good headphone adapters w/power delivery available
DAC drains your battery like crazy. At least mine does when paired with Sennheiser HD6xx. You might want a battery powered one.
Forced age attestation on unlock. Camera always on.
Can’t the Fairphone do some of these things still?
The new 6 has everything but aux. That one I do miss like once a year where I randomly need to interface with something, for home stuff I bought two adapters and got no problem.
I wonder what the new XCover FR, which is assumed to be in development, will be like
Anyone got experience with the latest Fairphones, whether they are as glitchy as some report?I have the FP6+, currently running iodeos and I’m very happy with it.
Fp6 user here. It was pretty buggy in the beginning but now everything seems fine (occassionaly something minor but could just be android).
Biggest disadvantage is a worse camera, battery power and compute power for the price, but it is all acceptable.
Yeah I did look at one of the fair phones and my big problem with them is that they’re just cheap androids (cheap in terms of quality, not in terms of price) at the end of the day. I get that’s the point to a certain extent, but it would be nice if they had a more premium version with things like a better camera, and magsafe charging. I’d happy enough to give them more money but they just make the one model.
I agree, but they already have trouble supporting their current phones so I get why they just have one.
Could you tell me more about the disadvatanges?
Maybe with some examples.Does the battery ever not last a whole day for example?
Is the worse camera only about quality or does it take unreasonably longer to process combined with lower compute power?Battery last me almost always everyday except with excessive use.
Snapshots with camera takes a bit longer and like the other guy said it ain’t great (personally acceptable but that is opinion).
And specific example compute power I really don’t have, I am not the biggest power user anymore. I can say for typical daily tasks it is totally fine.
I just remind myself that making something cheap, repairable, better for enviroment and no slavery just isn’t as good as the slave made phones hahaha.
It’s got a rubbish camera. It’s basically 3 x zoom and that’s it, as long as you’re taking photos in bright lighting conditions, aren’t particularly bothered about really high quality colour reproduction, aren’t planning to zoom in after the fact (it ain’t got enough pixels for that), it’s okay.
But taking photographs at night even in fairly well illuminated streets is basically impossible. Not only do the photos not have great contrast but they’re also really noisy.
Obviously that’s only important to me, for me personally I’d rather have a better quality camera than the latest and greatest processor.
curious question: did you consider carrying around a small camera if taking pictures is so important for you? i am weighting pros and cons of this solution myself and slowly but surely coming to that breaking point…
I’ve yet to find a camera that’s both small enough that it isn’t a significant presence on my person, while at the same time a quality that it’s significantly better than something on a high end smartphone.
You can get some very good SLRs but they’re not exactly compact. Plus they’re really expensive and because they’re bigger more likely to get knocked. I suppose I can get really bougie and get an old compact film camera and then scan the negatives. But I think that would get really expensive.
i went the film way… i had pentax mx first (about 400g with pancake lens), that was too big so i went with olympus ees2. much faster for quick snaps but still big. even rollei 35s i carry now (as small as it gets) is still a bit too cumbersome to handle if it is inside my backpack…all of these are good solution for a photo walk but not fast enough for quick snaps. so now I’m thinking really small digicam… something fitting inside my pocket or something with rugged design i can use anywhere. any newer compact is going to run circles around even high-end smartphone… but price is a consideration.
with film the price is not an issue if you enjoy developing it yourself (which i do) and will buy film in bulk. with k400 and d76 i can get to 6-8 cents per picture when shooting half-frame (try dividing a price of a good dslr by the average amount of pics you make with it over its life and you will get pretty close to that).
“Where are my testicles, Summer?”
They reset all your settings after an upgrade and remove the options to turn them back on.
Extra slippery materials
I have a headphone jack. Maybe you just have a peasant phone.
