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Bring back the IR blaster. No one apparently misses it but me.

The "bare minimum for a non-disposable, consumer friendly, half environmentally responsible phone" starter pack.

Also the custom ROM ability should not be merely a bonus. IMO it needs to be legally mandatory even above standardised charging connectors. It costs effectively nothing to implement because the base OS and general architecture supports it by default, the manufacturer simply needs to not disable it, and it is by far the most important thing for keeping a device from becoming unusable and possibly even a cybersecurity risk with age. Also just in principle, I paid for the hardware I should be able to put my own software on it.

I want my notification light back so badly!

I miss being able to hold my phone comfortably in one hand.

This stupid propping it up with you pink sucks ass and isn't natural.

I get that they're basically super computers in your hand, but fuck man

Dude literally described a perfect phone

I'd kill for a notification LED again...

I've been working on notifications the last few days and noticed I still had some legacy code there to set the notification LED orange. Broke my heart to remove it...

So hard when sarcasm describes exactly what I’d want in a phone.

Is there a phone that still has all these features?

Turns out the galaxy S4 WAS the best phone ever created.

RIP power user geared phones

Everything Android is now tooled for the hyper casual iPhone leaning demographic since they are the majority.

I miss the notification LED

Oh look, phones from circa 2017!

My Fairphone 3 ticks all these boxes lol

TIL: I am a cultist.

I think “discontinued after one year” would be a fun punchline here, like the “perfect r/cars car” being a “brown, manual transmission, V8 wagon that’s used from the factory”

My Xperia phone has all of these except the removable battery. I think the EU is legislating removable batteries be brought back to phones so given another year or two I'd expect to start seeing them again.

More than anything I want a hardware keyboard.

No, not Bluetooth, not tacked on, not in a case, not vibrating emulation of buttons, not a half kilo Linux phone for terminal use, just a regular vertical phone with a keypad ffs.

Don't tell me it's difficult, when we get a dozen new gaming handhelds a month. They have buttons and Android. Don't tell me it's too expensive if Chinese factories can make a phone or handheld under 100€. Don't tell me there are no suitable displays, when there clearly are displays of all shapes and sizes. Don't tell me there's no interest when there are thousands of phone models on the market and everyone is fighting to find any niche to squeeze into. It's clearly absolutely doable, it's been done both well and cheap, just the phone vendors are absolutely dense.

yeah maybe 6 or 7 years ago

Does apple phone not have a notification LED? I like it. I can tell whos messaging me from it. Blue is txt message (probably mum) purple is whatsapp, probably dank memes in the group chat, green is probaly my autistic cousin on instagram sending me cat pictures, white is signal, probably my dealer.

I had a different reaction to the notification led. I don't like my electronics glowing or blinking in the dark. I still liked my old android tablet, but it had to sleep face down because I could not turn the LED off.

where do I get one of these bad boys