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Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter::Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung's profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.

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[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 207 points 1 year ago

each new phone is more expensive, with less functionality.

hover on the touch screen? gone

iris scanner, gone

headphone jack? gone

air pressure sensor? gone

humidity sensor? gone

ir blaster, gone

meanwhile I get charged out the ass for storage space.

Why the fuck would I want a newer phone?

[-] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Wait air pressure sensor and humidity sensor? Are you talking about their watches?

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 year ago

no, i am talking about phones. this stuff used to actually be in phones

[-] Screeslope@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Samsung Note 10 and others have a barometric sensor, though I'm not aware of any app using them. Which might explain their removal, sadly.

[-] egeres@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I have a barometric sensor in my phone?!

[-] FlyingPiisami@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I like using the app phyphox to look at all the different sensors on my phone

[-] egeres@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh boy this is a weird tool hahah, I love it!! Can't thank you enough for this recommendation, it always bummers me how wasted are most phones in terms of potential, when I used to fantasize about futuristic portable computers as a little boy I though that people would become a short of cyborg that would do "magic" with their computers. Turns out, phone became the "squary-glassy attention sink machine" xd

I was thinking on accessing the pressure sensor via termux and then export that data to a csv file with some python script! phybox looks ver interesting to gain control over my devices ๐Ÿ˜—

[-] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

news to me too, and I'm replacing it on Monday lol.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

TIL I had a phone with barometric sensor.

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Air pressure is (was?l in pretty much any phone.

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