The “bare minimum for a non-disposable, consumer friendly, half environmentally responsible phone” starter pack.
Also the custom ROM ability should not be merely a bonus. IMO it needs to be legally mandatory even above standardised charging connectors. It costs effectively nothing to implement because the base OS and general architecture supports it by default, the manufacturer simply needs to not disable it, and it is by far the most important thing for keeping a device from becoming unusable and possibly even a cybersecurity risk with age. Also just in principle, I paid for the hardware I should be able to put my own software on it.
yup imagine not being able to run anything you want on your own device. it should be mandatory
Oh look, phones from circa 2017!
Lol. My Samsung galaxy S3 did all this!
Dude literally described a perfect phone
Pretty much.
TIL: I am a cultist.
I want my notification light back so badly!
I agree! And it flashed different colors for different notifications! Things were awesome!
Didn’t even realize the led was something that had been removed. Mine has it on the upper edge, which is fine, although I’d prefer it on the front face so it can be ‘muted’ by flipping the phone over
My android flashes around the edge of the screen when there’s a notification, whether I’m using it or not.
Wait, aren’t most phones OLED? Wouldn’t it be trivial to light up a few pixels in the corner of the screen when it’s off? Do phones not do this (I’m still running my S7 into the ground so I have a dedicated LED)?
It’s not trivial. An LED only needs power to light up, an OLED Pixel always needs the GPU to be powered on and it would be a significant power loss to implement a pixel sadly
The full Always On Display (which shows the clock + some notifications) uses less than 1% battery per hour on my ancient S7, are new phones not any better than that?
It doesn’t if the screen is connected directly to the frame buffer which can refresh independently. Whether that’s actually implemented this way in hardware, well who knows, but I suspect it is as that’s useful to display any static image. Then just power up the display driver for a microsecond to refresh the image if needed.
I mean there’s a ton of phones that have always on displays (AOD)
I have my always on display which gives me icons of the notifications in a predictable place on screen all the time.
My battery still lasts a full day so power concerns not an issue
yeah samsung has a feature for this in good look
I just use the camera notification circle. It works just fine. I can set it to use a notification dot but the circle is cooler
I saw a comment on lemmy some time ago about a foss app that mostly brings it back, but I can’t find it anymore.
It’s not the one I saw, but a quick google search led to this: https://github.com/Chainfire/HoleyLight
The Xperia Z2 had a notification light bar, I miss that one especially.
My phone checks all these boxes, but it does not run android
Come on, don’t leave us hanging
My guess is KaiOS
If anyone can find me one of these without it breaking the bank please hmu
Some of my fav features:
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5AH Battery + 25W QC (100% in 2hrs) + WC, battery isn’t removable but phone is easy to repair
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Expandable Storage
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Headphone Jack with a HiRes 32Bit DAC
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Loud stereo speakers that don’t suck
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1080P/60Hz/HDR10+ P-OLED
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Wacom Stylus compatible
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Desktop Mode
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Dual Screen Case - LG mirrored the display into a case that the phone can easily drop in.
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USB C 3.1 OTG
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Still receiving quarterly security updates 3.5 years after launch to include A13 even after LG shutdown their mobile division in 2021
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5G, Wifi 6, BT 5.1
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FM Radio
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Rootable with community tool on XDA
The only things I wish I could change are:
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Cameras for better resolution for macro/landscape shots. Anything further than 10 feet from the camera loses detail extremely quickly. Camera can record 4k60FPS but the second you crop or zoom in on anything, all the details are blury. It’s baffling to me.
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Higher refresh rate display even if it was only 90hz.
The only phone that can beat this in features is the Sony Xperia line at ~ 5x the price. Broke my first one and immediately grabbed a second one off swappa.
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Nexus One
:(
I miss being able to hold my phone comfortably in one hand.
This stupid propping it up with you pink sucks ass and isn’t natural.
I get that they’re basically super computers in your hand, but fuck man
That’s literally my first requirement for a phone, that it be small and actually fit inside my hand without any straining. It gets harder everytime I need a replacement - like, dudes, if I wanted aa small tablet, I’d buy a small tablet. I want a phone.
Personally I don’t have tiny baby hands, so I dont need to worry about that… but it would definitely be nice if there were more options to choose from.
Yeah, but I’ve heard about your baby dick, so I’m fine with smaller hands…
EDIT: Sorry, it was intended as just a silly joke-response, no one’s actually sensitive here!
Yowch, someone’s a little sensitive… Trump, is that you?
I miss the notification LED the most.
Turns out the galaxy S4 WAS the best phone ever created.
Oneplus one. Hands down. It was as good as S5 with exynos that was thrice the price, allowed custom roms (came with inbuilt cyanogen os) and the sandstone finish was amazing.
Don’t forget to the FM radio… It’s a life saver!
RIP power user geared phones
Everything Android is now tooled for the hyper casual iPhone leaning demographic since they are the majority.
I bought the wrong android it seems
I miss the notification LED
Wait wait new phones don’t have those anymore?
I haven’t had a phone with one since the Galaxy S7, but always on displays have replaced them for notifications at a glance.
No they can only fold in half. We still need to do some research to implement notification LED technology.
I don’t understand why that one has gone away. Like, the 3mm audio jack made waterproofing difficult and was big. But that doesn’t apply to the notification LED, does it?
I really miss that feature because now I have no indicator of a notification, short of the major battery drain of setting the screen to always be on. I remember even customizing the colour so that I could tell when I had important notifications. Now I often have to double tap my phone just to check if I have any notifications. So dumb.
Even the water resistance thing is a lie
