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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Apple’s 3D Touch on iPhone. Force Touch or whatever they called it. The ability to hard press to get something like a right-click. Wish they’d kept it. Used it every day for placing my cursor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Probably the Quick View Window case on the LG G-series phones. The overview on notifications was great and allowed answering calls without opening the flap while protecting most of the screen. Also the reduced visible screen space did not blast you with light when checking time in the middle of the night.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

FM radio. Also my old Motorola had a "karate-chop to activate camera" which was very useful

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using "double chop" to activate flashlight and double twist turns the camera on.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hardware navegation buttons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The ringlight on the bottom of Xperia U.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The RadioShack Cuecat. At the time I thought it was the coolest free thing ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Stadia, I had great internet and it worked great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Retractable fountain pens. I could never afford one though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you now? Looks like they are 6 for $10 on Amazon, and you get 10 refill cartridges.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The internet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have a samsung flip. I cannot tell you how much I love this phone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The pixel pinch phone body for the Google assistant. Boy how I want that feature badly when I was using OnePlus 3T. It felt like one of those double tap at the back of iphone little niche thing.

I really like since it give the user different kind of input to interact with the phone quickly. We have the double tap and holding for power button, double tap the top of the screen, the screenshot combo button and etc. Same like the interface for controlling your wireless earbud.

The pain for installation/maintenance/replacement for that input must be a nightmare though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My old Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 had magnetic sensors in it that would shut off the screen. How it worked is you would put a case on it with a cover that would fold over the screen, and the cover had magnets in it that would activate the sensors and turn off the screen when you closed it.

Anyway, it got old and unreliable and I had to replace it. The new ones don't have that feature.

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