• xep@fedia.io
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    23 days ago

    Premium phones make little sense, based on what I’ve seen everyone puts them in cases anyway. “Premium materials” are slippery and “premium thinness” results in insufficient battery capacity so accessories like phone rings get put on them, and people carry around external battery packs.

    Why not just make a grippy, practical phone that I can use as a tool, with removable batteries, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and expandable memory?

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    22 days ago

    “Glass is glass, and glass breaks” I want a metal back phone. I don’t care about wireless charging.

    • 8GB ram
    • 250 GB memory
    • “>6000 mah” battery. Thickness doesn’t matter.
    • Fast charging
    • 120hz display

    Can anyone suggest me an Android that has all these?

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      22 days ago

      I may have found a phone for you. It’s called the unihertz tank 2

      • 12gb ram
      • 256GB memory (expandable)
      • 15500 mah battery
      • 60W charging
      • 120hz display

      https://www.unihertz.com/products/tank-2

      Comes with a few other really interesting features you don’t see on any other phone (like a goddamn laser projector?), though i think the processor is a little underpowered.

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    23 days ago

    FINALLY someone gets this. I don’t care about the “premium look” whatever that means, I just don’t want my phone to break when I accidentally drop it. Which is why I always put a case on my phone

    In fact, I’m pretty sure phone manufacturers started putting glass on the back of phones specifically to make them less durable so that customers buy a new phone sooner

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      21 days ago

      Nah, it’s mostly because all the tech reviewers trashed phones with plastic backs saying they felt cheap. If you look at any of those reviews they always talk about the premium feel.

      It also changed from aluminium to glass backs mostly for wireless charging.

      Plastic backs are better, but the tech reviewers did a lot of damage there. If they’d tried to influence people and explained why particular made sense instead of trashing it we may have more plastic phones.