• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    Honestly, I do want a better smartphone. Not better as in more pixels or processing power, but more features.

    My P8P has a temperature sensor on it. Every phone I own moving forward is gonna need that now cuz I use it for all kinds of shit basically daily, great tool for a SMART device.

    I miss IR blasters, they weren’t as useful but they had their place

    I miss the short time period where volume and lock buttons were on the backs of phones.

    More weird sensors and functionality that might prove useful in niche situations, please.

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        7 months ago

        Didn’t OnePlus have a special camera which ended up being updated away because it would see through people’s clothes?

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      7 months ago

      I miss IR blasters

      Ditto. Literally the only thing I find myself using my Flipper Zero for these days. Wish more devices had this feature.

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        7 months ago

        yeah i still whip out my old redmi note 4 whenever i need to use some obscure appliance that only works with ir.
        the thing’s annoying af tho, the battery’s dies after like 5 minutes, barely able to charge and turns off randomly, the thing takes 5 minutes to boot and the os is ridiculously slow with all the modern updates

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      7 months ago

      I miss my notification LED. My first android phone was a Nexus 6, and I loved that big old thing. I rooted it and made it link up to my medication tracker so it would be a different colour when I had taken medication Vs when I was due (alarms work for medication you take on a schedule, but less so for PRN meds like painkillers)