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What niche phone features would appeal to you?
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I miss the FM radio
true background process management and battery
A Silent/Vibrate/Ring switch like on the OnePlus phones, headphone jack and a easily swappable battery.
IR blaster
Headphone jack. 5in or less screen size.
Hifi dac...for sure. Especially now that LG is gone and Asus seems to have abandoned it.
Pop up camera Small phone with the purpose built case with a lanyard or something sort of like the ZenFone 9.
Support for either Wacom or USI stylus.
A rugged phone that had night vision which seemed kind of cool
Removable dual display like in LG G8x, V60 etc. When you need it you can have a beast of a phone with 2 screen or a slim normal flagship.
Keyboard and not every phone looks like a black slab
Niche feature....
By Apple's standards a headphone jack.
By Android's standards IR blaster. Had them in my last 2 phone and man is it nice to turn the volume down on a TV which is too loud in a public place like a Hotel Lobby or a Restaurant
Does the alert slider counts as a niche feature? Very few brands provides this.
Officially supported rooting! Makes this less complicated.
I enjoyed the squeeze to activate assistant on Pixel 2 XL..just felt right. I even configured it to activate flashlight when I needed a quick light.
Ability to use the screen as a display through the USB port so I can debug a lot of my systems at home without needing to carry a monitor around.
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I've had 3 Motorola's where the charge port stopped working just past warranty. Now I always look for wireless charging.
Foldable display - They are still way too expensive!
Metal case - I just loved the heavy Samsung Omnia 7 metal case. It made it unbreakable and grippy!
- Slim form factor
- No notch
- No camera bump, even if at a cost in camera quality.
Aluminium back instead of plastic or glass
The literal only thing keeping me on iOS/MacOS is the system wide glass transparency, continuity, and the battery life. I wish to Christ that Android/Windows/Linux would get their shit together.
My ideal system would be Android + Ubuntu with full glass UI and continuity between them.
So, your killer criteria are glass UI? I do agree on Windows Laptop battery life.
Emphatically, yes. Glass UI is the most polished design paradigm ever created. Flat and opaque just looks really boring and doesn’t make me want to use the UI; it just screams low quality to me.
Glass UI feels cheap and fake to me, I love Material 3 on my Android
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