The things consumers most want are features they really don’t want to give us, like expandable storage, replaceable batteries, and other actual solvable problems where they stand to benefit.
Best I can do is AI.
I'll just stay over here with a phone I can repair that fits in my pocket with a 3.5mm headphone jack until they turn off the 4g network, ok.
Which one is that? I am looking for a good phone I can keep for multiple years.
Samsung S10e
nothing fancy just a proper small flagship phone, had it since new and battery life is still perfectly fine, never had to repair anything. I think android support has just ended recently so I'm going to be flashing a newer OS soon and get many more years out of it. as with anything you own, take care of it and it will take care of you.
literally any phone should last you multiple years, if that's not the case for you the type of phone isn't the problem.
I have the Fairphone 5, it has everything mentioned and 5G but no 3.5mm jack.
The free market has been deliberately shit at meeting the demands of consumers for quite some time. Big players like Apple have been very good at manufacturing hype and loyalty to deliver mediocre products for a consistent revenue stream instead. Smaller companies are either too irrelevant to make an impact or just try to mimic the more successful companies instead.
Maybe Framework will make an Android phone.
Oh yes, fan of theirs. My reasoning behind Framework is they actually develop for upgrades. If you have the first 13" model, you could have updated ram, CPU, ports, battery, even the screen at this point. Fairphone is very repairable, but the upgrade path hasn't been there that I'm aware of.
I went from a 6.5 year old iPhone to a 16 man pro max big and it’s amazing. I dig that I can keep a phone for over six years
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What kinda features do you honestly expect? Phones can basically already do everything these days. Of course the most noteable difference is CPU speed but you don't need a new one for that every year, or do you upgrade your PC as soon as a new CPU or graphics card hit the market?
And yet people always want to upgrade to the latest one.
Who are these people? All my friends and family keep phones for 3-5 years. Im the "new phone" guy and I'm on a 3 year schedule
We got USB C 14>15, that’s an upgrade on its own tbh
Because they got forced to do so, lol.
100%, not denying that
Thousand dollar standard update
laughs in android
It feels like Phones really don't have anywhere else to go in terms of meaningful upgrades outside of speed.
yeah, someone could release an actually useful phone (USB ports, SD cards, hardware switches for everything....) phones could've been so amazing, but what we have now is nothing short of useless.
If they figure out durable scratch resistant creaseless foldables, it's actually over for form factor changes
The bezels are pretty wide on these examples. Some people like that though.
I love good bezels where you can actually hold your phone securely and not have to balance it on the bottom with your thumb/pinkie.
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