The lack of a fucking headphone jack
That’s the exact reason I have only bought budget phones. That, and they actually have a sim/sd card slot.
I ‘downgraded’ this year and realized what an upgrade having one of those was. We cannot cede those things.
The shear amount of samsung/Microsoft bloatware on my samsung a55
Maybe give the universal android debloater a try. Its a pretty useful tool.
I did it I used universal android debloater new generation
They are slippery. So they require a case. Why not, i dunno, make them easier to hold? The phone design doesn’t matter if it’s always hidden.
Generally: That I can’t mount my network samba shares into local folders without rooting the whole damn thing.
That I can’t force my device to stay in wifi if no internet connection is available (to access local network only).
Device specific: That sometimes volume control is very buggy while putting in a headphone jack and I have to navigate into sub-sub settings hell to set everything back.
Receiving calls and texts from people.
Not being able to install Graphene OS
Under screen fingerprint reader (pixel 7 pro) . It’s a downgrade from reader on the back of the phone (pixel 5). It’s slower, less accurate, and worst of all, at night it often results in being flashed with a bright light.
I thought it’d be more convenient having the reader on the front, so i can unlock the phone without lifting it, but most of the time it’s a nuisance because i doesn’t work as well.
Having the reader on the back was easily the best spot. The only thing I miss from my old phone.
No headphone jack, and having to deal with Samsung’s bullshit. This will be my last phone from them.
No removable battery.
Fixed battery and removal of headphone jack and SD card slots were 1000% anti-consumer practices designed to cost you more money and make your device lifespan as short as possible. I don’t see the battery problem going away - why enable your phone to last twice or three times as long when they can just force you to have to buy a new device when the battery is shot? At least we got our card slots and jacks back (mostly).
I am also salty that phones USED to have IR blasters and they don’t anymore. IR LEDs cost next to nothing, another feature that was amazing but thrown away to save 5c per unit.
I can get the battery replaced on my phone for a fraction of the money it would cost me to buy a new phone. So I have to take it in to the shop for an hour. Big deal. I can do that once every few years. And I can still use wired headphones with my phone even though it doesn’t have a headphone jack. Sheesh, I wonder how that works.
The biggest anti-consumer practice to make your device lifespan as short as possible is whatever software update practices the manufacturer has. Annual major versions increase hardware requirements - I can tell every day how my 5 year old phone is getting long in the tooth. Lack of long-term software support is another way to make sure the average user buys a new device well before the old device has reached end of life.
battery
I don’t think that this is a conspiracy by phone manufacturers to force purchases of phone hardware.
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All kinds of devices use fixed batteries these days, not just smartphones. It’s cheaper, lighter, makes the device stronger, avoids them having to deal with “User X bought a counterfeit battery that then caught fire” – that’s a real issue for lithium batteries, unlike traditional alkaline/NiMH-type removeable batteries. Virtually the only device class I can think of where removable lithium batteries are the norm is high-end flashlights – anything on !flashlight@lemmy.world probably supports removable 18650s or similar. I have gone out of my way to get a lot of devices that use AA batteries or maybe 18650s, but there are just tons of products, including in highly-competitive, low-barrier-to-entry industries like gamepads, where it’d be impossible to form a cartel to refuse to offer a device with removable batteries. And yet they’ve mostly moved to fixed batteries. There is no industry convention for removable, BMS-enabled, lithium batteries the way AA or the like were traditionally used in devices.
If there were a cartel driving this against consumer wishes as a whole, you would have just smartphones doing the fixed battery thing, not the consumer electronics industry as a whole.
If it were cartel-driven, I’d also expect to see, in a situation like that, manufacturers making hefty use of price discrimination – like, think of how some laptop vendors charge a premium for devices with a lot of RAM when they have soldered RAM. But in the market today, the differences in battery size are minimal. Google makes a “large” version of the Pixel, and they barely bump the battery up, even with a slightly larger screen.
Instead, it was associated with the shift across consumer electronics to non-removable batteries with the move to lithium batteries, which is what you’d expect if sketchy batteries were a problem.
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Phones in particular have a space and weight premium, so compared to a lot of devices that aren’t held in your hand, using removable NiMH batteries or the like is more of an issue.
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I was super stoked to find out my OnePlus Open has an IR blaster! I missed it on my old galaxy note 4. It is surprisingly convenient, and doubles as a fun way to mess with TVs in public spaces.
- No good operating system preinstalled by default
- No headphone jack anymore
This plus no way to replace battery yourself or upgrade storage.
My fingerprint scanner was on the back, but now it’s on the front, and can’t identify me as regularly as it did before.
I’ve gotten used to the new location, but I can’t forgive making it less accurate than it used to be.
My god, I upgraded from an S9 to an S22 and seeing the fingerprint scanner on the front baffled me. With a screen protector on I unlock it on the first try maybe 25% of the time
There’s a setting you can turn on that increases the sensitivity, which should fix the issue. It works perfectly fine for me with a screen protector
Yeah I pretty quickly figured out I needed that, without it it straight up doesn’t scan my finger
I went from a Pixel 3 to a Pixel 7. I hold on to my phones as long as possible.
If you have issues with it detecting your finger try doing the “Check added Fingerprint” thing a bunch, apparently it can scan all of your finger more accurately, and get to the very edges and weird angles that the original scan never got. Seemed to improve the accuracy of mine a bit (never had big issues with it tho)
I assume that it must be cheaper or something. I really preferred having it on the back too; was more ergonomic.
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I guess that the front is maybe easier to use a thumbprint or something on.
That being said, regarding accuracy, it might also have a lower false-positive rate, which is maybe something that you’d want.
why on earth are people so comfortable giving private companies their fingerprint and face scans?
Knowing how Lemmy is, I’ll probably catch shit for this, but it’s the truth:
I just don’t care.
I won’t say you’re being paranoid because, I don’t know for sure that there won’t be repercussions, but I don’t see a realistic downside considering the cops and FBI already have mine for clearances.
The fingerprint is stored on your device. You don’t give it to a company.
My understanding is that these fingerprints are specific to your device and don’t get stored in the cloud. If you buy a new phone, then you’ll have to rescan your fingerprints.
the constant surveillance.
No fucking mini jack for headphones.
I don’t need a headphone jack all the time, but I really do fucking want one when I need it. Dongles suck.
A big reason I replaced my old S10+ with a battery that wouldn’t even hold half a day with Xperia 1 VI is that it has both the headphone jack AND an SD card slot. Might be the only flagship left that has both…
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I can’t remember how I did it but I finally figured out a way to turn that shit off. My phone is pretty old, though. They probably took that away on the newer phones.
bxActions, probably? Turn the useless button into something you want.
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is that still around jfc
consider pixel with calyx or graphene as your next choice, you don’t have to suffer like this
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i am shocked it is still alive… who da faq be using that shite
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It’s not on the s24
my condolences
Touchscreen basically being unusable in any kind of rain no matter how light
