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sell me a phone with an all-glass body and no ports
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I want a phone made out of wood
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Apr 3, 2025 16:53
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Soul Glo posted:won't the eu measure mandating removable batteries dictate some smartphone design reassessment in the coming years? did that get called off? No, because it doesn't dictate a removable battery. It says that the battery must be easily replaceable without damaging the device or the battery without proprietary tools. Many smartphones meet that goal today. There's also this little nugget. quote:Mobile phones and tablets subject to disassembly and repair requirements under the Ecodesign Framework (Directive 2009/125/EC) should comply with those requirements, rather than the removability and replaceability requirements under the Batteries Regulation. Since that framework lays out things like cycle endurance and the ability to limit charge to 80%, I'm pretty certain that nearly all modern smartphones comply with this framework which means they are exempt from the battery replacement framework. So yes, the internet lied to you. The EU has no regulation requiring removable batteries in the future.
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Apr 3, 2025 16:55
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butt dickus posted:sell me a phone with an all-glass body and no ports I want a rigid frame, shock-mounted screen, and carbon fiber panels. - Sent from my Pixel 8 Pro with cracked screen and shattered back glass.
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Apr 3, 2025 17:24
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absolutely unhinged to use a phone without a case
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Apr 3, 2025 17:27
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CLAM DOWN posted:absolutely unhinged to use a phone without a case nah man I love it, I love my naked phone
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Apr 3, 2025 17:33
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they do away with larger batteries, sd card and audio ports for the primary design goal of thinness, which is what most everyone cares about more than those features. if you use a case you're adding a few mm and throwing away the killer feature of modern phones.
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Apr 3, 2025 18:28
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Next is Expanse style glass slab terminals with holographic UI that extends beyond the device. Bing bong simple.
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Apr 3, 2025 18:46
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Give me more bezels. More I say! MORE! Phone should be nothing but bezel
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Apr 3, 2025 18:50
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zhar posted:they do away with larger batteries Batteries have been getting larger with almost every generation.
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Apr 3, 2025 18:52
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CLAM DOWN posted:absolutely unhinged to use a phone without a case
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Apr 3, 2025 19:20
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butt dickus posted:imo it's unhinged to spend money on something that makes something that goes in my pocket bulkier and harder to use. i instead opt to not drop my pocket computer, a strategy that's served me well for over a decade you're going to drop you're computer :mrgw
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Apr 3, 2025 19:29
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you all keep saying "unhinged" and what i'm hearing is that you want more hinges on your phones
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CLAM DOWN posted:I want a phone made out of wood I may be misremembering, but wasn't it possible to order the original Moto X with a wood back?
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Apr 3, 2025 22:44
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Pretty sure it was bamboo
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isndl posted:The next innovation in peak smartphone is going to be, uh.... *rolls dice* integrated earbud storage? glueing my linkbuds case to my phone with loctite like turtilicious
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Apr 3, 2025 23:17
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Literally would not care if my Pixel 7 was the same thickness top to bottom, instead of having the camera bump. Use the space for a bigger battery or whatever you want. I work in a service shop, so my phones all immediately go in a case for better grip with gloves/drop protection.
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Apr 4, 2025 02:46
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That's precisely what they did for the 9a and everyone is panning it for losing its identity.
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bull3964 posted:That's precisely what they did for the 9a and everyone is panning it for losing its identity. "Everyone" is doing some heavy lifting there. Most people do not care if their phone is identifiable as a specific brand/model.
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CLAM DOWN posted:absolutely unhinged to use a phone without a case coward
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smoobles posted:nah man I love it, I love my naked phone I miss not having to use a case. I find them too slippery these days (and big!). My last phone slipped out of my hand and broke after owning it a week. The repair cost more than just getting a used one. My current phone slipped out of my hand as I was taking it out of the box (onto my couch, thankfully). Internet Explorer posted:coward Yup! 
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Apr 4, 2025 17:33
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you're one drunk buttery hand slip away from dropping your phone on a hard floor and destroying it
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Apr 4, 2025 17:49
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OnePlus 13 feels really nice without a case with the blue plastic back though it does allow for more fantom touches. I'm actually trying to remember the last time I've actually been drunk so that's not really an issue. It may be pre-pandemic. Not saying that I don't drink, because I do, but you don't really get drunk on 1-3 beers a week. The penalty isn't worth the fun anymore at 45.
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Apr 4, 2025 18:08
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I'm too cowardly to go caseless but it is tempting. Now is definitely not the time to go caseless though, as tariffs will probably make phones $100-$200 more expensive in the near future. Definitely glad I bought a OP13 when I did!
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FistEnergy posted:I'm too cowardly to go caseless but it is tempting. Now is definitely not the time to go caseless though, as tariffs will probably make phones $100-$200 more expensive in the near future. Definitely glad I bought a OP13 when I did! Yeah, that's part of why I grabbed a Pixel 8 at a crazy discount a while back, so I have a stable of Pixel phones to provide some redundancy to me, my partner, and my dad - I have a 6, an 8, and an 8 Pro, she has an 8 Pro, and he has a 6a. If one of their phones goes down they can be up and running with an almost identical experience in minutes. Pixel to Pixel transfer has become slick as hell - when I set up the 8 from my 8 Pro it was almost eerie how fast it basically cloned the 8 Pro onto the 8. This must've been using wifi 6 over my router, which is something like 1.7gbps, and I swear it only took a few seconds. Come to think of it, every single one of those phones is in a Spigen case, too, so have at least somewhat decent protection.
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bull3964 posted:OnePlus 13 feels really nice without a case with the blue plastic back though it does allow for more fantom touches. You had a heart attack if I remember?
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I did, but that doesn't really factor into it. More that I'm at the point where I have a single drink just to enjoy that drink and. leave it at that. Wasn't really a conscious decision on my part , just something I gravitated away from.
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bull3964 posted:I did, but that doesn't really factor into it. More that I'm at the point where I have a single drink just to enjoy that drink and. leave it at that. Wasn't really a conscious decision on my part , just something I gravitated away from. Make sure you have some redundancy so we know if the worst happens dude. You're an SA staple and we need to know how you are.
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I just got a Nothing Phone 3a Pro and ditched AT&T for RedPocket, because AT&T refused to activate it and was convinced that the IMEI belonged to a 3g phone. I like the phone a lot! The UI is fun, it feels like a high quality device, and looks neat. anyway thanks for reading
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Make sure you have some redundancy so we know if the worst happens dude. You're an SA staple and we need to know how you are. Don't worry, we're going to die from WWIII or some other collapse of society long before that becomes an issue.
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bull3964 posted:Don't worry, we're going to die from WWIII or some other collapse of society long before that becomes an issue. I'm not looking forward to the Gemini rollout much, either.
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You all laughed at my phone hoarding, but who's going to be laughing when the cheapest flagship is $1500?
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bull3964 posted:You all laughed at my phone hoarding, but who's going to be laughing when the cheapest flagship is $1500? Nah, I'm right there with ya.  I personally have 3 Pixels and a Motorola that I hope to render usable by putting LineageOS on it since Motorola just flat abandoned the phone. And those are just the phones I consider viable.
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I put a spugen case on my OnePlus 13. It's a shame because it's a beautiful phone and I wanted it because of that fact but I walk my dog four times a day and I just know sooner or later it's going to drop. Not least of because of the size unbalancing it when used one handed (such as when walking a dog). Regarding earbud storage: not a phone but I think Dank pods once reviewed a nugget mp3 player that had that feature.
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Spigen didn't have a clear case for the oneplus 13?
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Sure they do. Or I should say, they at least have a clear case with black corners. So the corners won't yellow (which is important to me). But even then it sort of takes away from the look of the thing if you ask me.
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i stopped using spigen cases and car phone holders after i found out far cheaper chinese bargain basement had better quality ironically
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whats the deal with chargers, cables and fast chargers etc? id like a couple (usb c and usb a) for my pixel 8, but i feel like i remember there being some issues where certain non compliant cables or chargers would mess with the battery on your phone or something. am i good to grab some random chargers off aliexpress, or do i need to go to my local retailer and ask for the artisanal, organic free range chargers for 200 bucks each?
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I think the Caseology Parralax case was recommended itt a while ago and I liked mine a lot for my Pixel 7, and I'm considering getting the same for my Pixel 9... does anyone have strong feelings for/against for a thinner profile case?
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Kevin Bacon posted:whats the deal with chargers, cables and fast chargers etc? id like a couple (usb c and usb a) for my pixel 8, but i feel like i remember there being some issues where certain non compliant cables or chargers would mess with the battery on your phone or something. am i good to grab some random chargers off aliexpress, or do i need to go to my local retailer and ask for the artisanal, organic free range chargers for 200 bucks each? do not buy random chargers or cables off aliexpress unless you have a usb cable tester and a usb load tester. even cheap cables included with cheap things can be questionable on my testing. from being unshielded , from the cable cooking at barely its max rated current, to it just not working at max or having high resistance. as for chargers, random no name cheap chargers do make cool spiky graphs but I wouldn't actually use them on a device I don't want to murder. Celexi fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Apr 6, 2025 |
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