Owner_of_donky on Nostr: Phones have stoped evolving. There are almost no new samrtphones made in the last ...
Phones have stoped evolving.
There are almost no new samrtphones made in the last year that have sd card. The prices for mobile storage is at all time low while prices/gb that phone manufacturers offer is higher than what we had in the years before 2020/21. Most new phones that have sd cards are mid range or the ones that are the high end are china only. The only exception is Sony. But there is another problem:
Custom ROMs. They almost used to be the norm. Every other phone had a community of dedicated devs and users whose main thing was customizing and optimizing the experience. Where did those users go? Custom ROMs used to be easy and safe to install. Now you need a permission from the manufacturer, linux experience and God guiding you just to unlock the bootloader. And even if you can unlock the bootloader there are either no ROMs developped or the ones that are available die after few months because the sole maintainer decided that this is isn't for him anymore. What happened?
Now everything is proprietary. The most open mobile platform that is worth using is the Google Pixel. Excuse me? Google? The data harvester? YES, GOOGLE. That google that runs most of the internet and controls almost all data on the internet. And their phones are not even that good. Their battery isn't that longlasting, the phones is always hot for some reason.
Oh and last but not least. The headphone jack. C'mon guys. Are you really that greedy? Everybody already has bluetooth headphones and like thcomfort of them. I have one too and use them more than my wired headphones. Can we stop with this? Can we have the headphone jack back?
Fuck all phone manufacturers. There are no good phones anymore.
There are almost no new samrtphones made in the last year that have sd card. The prices for mobile storage is at all time low while prices/gb that phone manufacturers offer is higher than what we had in the years before 2020/21. Most new phones that have sd cards are mid range or the ones that are the high end are china only. The only exception is Sony. But there is another problem:
Custom ROMs. They almost used to be the norm. Every other phone had a community of dedicated devs and users whose main thing was customizing and optimizing the experience. Where did those users go? Custom ROMs used to be easy and safe to install. Now you need a permission from the manufacturer, linux experience and God guiding you just to unlock the bootloader. And even if you can unlock the bootloader there are either no ROMs developped or the ones that are available die after few months because the sole maintainer decided that this is isn't for him anymore. What happened?
Now everything is proprietary. The most open mobile platform that is worth using is the Google Pixel. Excuse me? Google? The data harvester? YES, GOOGLE. That google that runs most of the internet and controls almost all data on the internet. And their phones are not even that good. Their battery isn't that longlasting, the phones is always hot for some reason.
Oh and last but not least. The headphone jack. C'mon guys. Are you really that greedy? Everybody already has bluetooth headphones and like thcomfort of them. I have one too and use them more than my wired headphones. Can we stop with this? Can we have the headphone jack back?
Fuck all phone manufacturers. There are no good phones anymore.