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For me its the 'Knock Code' that LG had on their phones (I really wish LG still made at least the V series phones)

Basically there was a four-square area and you set up a sequence of where you would tap to unlock the phone. That set of squares was only shown when you set up the code

Then, to unlock your phone, you would tap those areas in the sequence you set up (even with the screen off).

Fingerprint readers are nice, but I really do miss the knock code

Edit: did find this article with a way to do the knock code, but if done wrong, could brick your phone I guess.

Plus, article is from 2014. When I looked at XDA's info on it (they also being the developers) it looks like development on it is over, but individual modules may or may not still be supported by their devs

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[–] KeavesSharpi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

:beep beep: Where you at? -nextel direct connect

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[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

my old phone, a samsung j7 i believe, had a live concert feature that would make the music sound much more like you were at a concert, it was a complete gamechanger in listening to live albums. my new one doesnt have that feature :(

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[–] Angular2575@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So basically a pin? But the screen can be off?

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[–] oxjox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I miss them being small and slim. I still use my iPhone SE everyday for a music player. It’s the perfect size for a cell phone.

  • Sent from my iPad.
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[–] Kobrah@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I would pay extra to have 3D Touch back

[–] HeavyRaptor@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

I think there were two issues with it.

They never really had a good UI indication of what elements are 3d touchable. This meant the average user never really used the feature too much and it was frustrating for some to try to find functionality that was "hidden" visually from the UI.

Also the phones with 3d touch had significantly worse battery life than in the following years. Apparently the pressure sensing hardware took up a lot of space in the phone. I'm sure they could have made them a bit thicker, but this is Apple we're talking about.

Force touch still exists on the mac, and it has kinda the same UI issue going on. I'm personally not a huge fan of it though as even if you know you want to force touch something, you can't really immediately do it. You first have to tap/click on the element and then apply more pressure, which makes the process a bit cumbersome.

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

There is no way to play CD audio in the background on an X Box anymore. It used to be in Groove Music, and then supposedly in Windows Media Player, but I can't find either of those in the store.

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[–] Tathas@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I liked the People Hub that Windows Phone 8 started with. But none of the social media platforms wanted you to be able to use their services without seeing their ads so ...

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[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I thought I missed actually having buttons for things, but recently I found out that no, touch screens are usually superior.

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

Squeeze to activate Google Assistant, from the Pixel 2 XL (and maybe others, I don't remember)

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