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The "cult following" Android phone starter pack (lemdro.id)
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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I want my notification light back so badly!

[–] CandyPants@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree! And it flashed different colors for different notifications! Things were awesome!

[–] aesopjah@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't even realize the led was something that had been removed. Mine has it on the upper edge, which is fine, although I'd prefer it on the front face so it can be 'muted' by flipping the phone over

[–] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My android flashes around the edge of the screen when there's a notification, whether I'm using it or not.

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait, aren't most phones OLED? Wouldn't it be trivial to light up a few pixels in the corner of the screen when it's off? Do phones not do this (I'm still running my S7 into the ground so I have a dedicated LED)?

[–] DrM@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's not trivial. An LED only needs power to light up, an OLED Pixel always needs the GPU to be powered on and it would be a significant power loss to implement a pixel sadly

[–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The full Always On Display (which shows the clock + some notifications) uses less than 1% battery per hour on my ancient S7, are new phones not any better than that?

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't if the screen is connected directly to the frame buffer which can refresh independently. Whether that's actually implemented this way in hardware, well who knows, but I suspect it is as that's useful to display any static image. Then just power up the display driver for a microsecond to refresh the image if needed.

[–] fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I mean there's a ton of phones that have always on displays (AOD)

[–] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I have my always on display which gives me icons of the notifications in a predictable place on screen all the time.

My battery still lasts a full day so power concerns not an issue

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

yeah samsung has a feature for this in good look

[–] AaronMaria@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

The Xperia Z2 had a notification light bar, I miss that one especially.

[–] eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I saw a comment on lemmy some time ago about a foss app that mostly brings it back, but I can't find it anymore.

It's not the one I saw, but a quick google search led to this: https://github.com/Chainfire/HoleyLight

[–] Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I just use the camera notification circle. It works just fine. I can set it to use a notification dot but the circle is cooler

[–] runjun@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] brlemworld@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd rather have an IR blaster than a headphone jack

[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You can have an IR blaster as an accessory for the headphone jack.

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a Poco X3 Pro and I have both + an sd slot

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

And a notification LED too.

[–] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] Carobu@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Opafi@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which current Xperia is small? They dropped the compact line years ago.

[–] SGHFan@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

Either the 5 series or the entry-level Ace series (Japan only).