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Folding Phones Are the Worst Thing to Happen to Smartphones
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The worst thing to happen was the boring black rectangle format winning and all other designs disappearing. You don't have to buy a foldable if you don't want to. It's next to impossible to buy anything that's doesn't look like every other phone on the market.
You can buy a modern reasonably powerful flipphone that runs android, there just aren't enough people interested in something that isn't the brick because the brick is, for most people, the optimal form factor for a phone.
I miss full slide-out qwerty keyboards.
Same 😢 I've been looking around for one for years but there's nothing that can run deGoogled android.
No slide out, but unihertz and clicks are both making a BlackBerry style form factor with android and physical keyboard :)
(Clicks one is called the clicks communicator. Figured I'd mention since that might be helpful to know if anyone wanted to look it up)
I'm familiar with both. I think it's possible to run LineageOS on some unihertz but the support is not solid enough for me to risk it. Clicks is fairly new, I think they open source some stuff but it's not supported by anything deGoogled yet.
Oops, I think I meant to reply to the same person you were replying to
I do think I saw clicks say they were talking to a custom ROM project, but I'm not positive I'm remembering that right
That was the peak of pre-iPhone cell phone tech imo
I loves those. No waterproofing though. That's how my last one got deatroyed
The worst thing to happen was the huge 6' screen. I just want a small phone with doesn't rip my jean's pockets and easy to handle with one hand.
that's one reason I use a Moto 50u flip, excellent pocketablity and the tiny outside screen is fine for message replies, reading short emails, time, day calender etc etc
A six foot screen will always rip your jeans unless you are a T-Rex.
Your 6' phone would look enormous next to an 18" replica of stonehenge
Aren't there plenty of those? They're just not flagship models.
Sadly no. unless it's some nameless knockoff brand.
I invite you to actually check, there's actually nothing modern below 6 inches, except those gimmicky 3" screen phones you can find on temu and such