cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/12741016
What about telecommunication companies conspiring with phone developers to force communication into the different buckets of data, voice, and text and then charge us for each?
This reminds me when cellphone companies used to charge for sms sent lmao
That's what I'm talking about, before cell phones were a thing, they weren't a thing. When they were becoming a thing they specifically conspired to segregate data into different streams so they could rip us off. And yeah 30 cents to send a 140 Byte chunk of data
I love modern phone cameras. My Pixel 10 pro takes pretty amazing pics and I'm on graphene so I don't worry about being watched. I do miss headphone jacks. I've been thinking about getting a portable DAC/amp and going back to wired headphones but I'm already carrying 2 devices because of my diabeetus, and I'm likely going to have a work phone soon as well.
DAC drains your battery like crazy. At least mine does when paired with Sennheiser HD6xx. You might want a battery powered one.
I lowkey kinda wish Fairphone would make a new phone that has an aux port for the craic. And an FM radio built in too. Use the aux port as an antenna like how older phones did before they stopped doing it.
I hate when people take away the freedom that people already have and claim it's in the name of improvement. This applies in technology or anything.
My BlackBerry had a notification LED that I could set to different colors and based on the type of notification. Made it super easy to see if there was something I needed to look at without picking it up. I miss that.
Early Android phones had that, too. A very neat feature they got rid of.
Something I “love” about my current phone is it has like a 60gb hard drive. This could hold all of the photos I will ever take for the rest of my life. But it keeps trying to put them on the cloud, and then it complains that I’m running out of space because my free 5 gigs on the cloud are full. I never wanted to save anything to the cloud in the first place… just save them into my phone… this is fucking stupid.
Syncing to the (i)cloud is a setting you can uncheck. You can ask chatgpt how to do that, or maybe your mom. Btw, a 60GB drive is not enough, by far. My fullframe camera disapproves of your lack of awareness... ;-)
Pardon me, we'd like to spy on you, but space is expensive, could you possibly be willing to pay for us to look through your photos?
Microsoft onedrive is the same shit. Don't you want to keep backups? It literally costs us pennies, how about $100 a year?
Disable backup in Google/Apple Photos then?
Forced age attestation on unlock. Camera always on.
Ooh, maybe a dedicated AI button right next to the power button that can't be turned off or used for any other function that you accidentally hit all of the time.
Superglue.
Better yet not to buy such a phone in the first place.
Take away your ability to install apps that aren't stamped approved.
Oh wait, one did it over a decade ago and the other is about to start enforcing it.
Oh, and there's pretty much only the two of them.
I miss the headphone jack so much.
Not sure why this is a "shit post." This actually happened.
I miss the IR blaster so much, I used it constantly
>they took your bootloader unlocking
>they took your sideloading(i think)
I wonder what the new XCover FR, which is assumed to be in development, will be like
Anyone got experience with the latest Fairphones, whether they are as glitchy as some report?
I have the FP6+, currently running iodeos and I'm very happy with it.
Fp6 user here. It was pretty buggy in the beginning but now everything seems fine (occassionaly something minor but could just be android).
Biggest disadvantage is a worse camera, battery power and compute power for the price, but it is all acceptable.
They remove the math-based image processing and replace it with AI, making all your photos invalid as any kind of evidence.
They are working hard on taking away SIM cards so that you can't move to another phone without your provider charging you and giving you an okay.
Yes in theory eSIM cards are better, but the way many providers handle issuing you an eSIM card is a nightmare. Whereas with a physical SIM I can just pull it out and put it in any phone that supports that provider without a problem.
I went as far as buying one of those physical SIM cards that holds e-sims on it so that I can swap that into a new phone. But newer phones are more frequently not coming with SIM slots at all.
With wireless charging existing, I wouldn't be surprised if they got rid of the USB port as well, and sold phones with no ports at all, just wireless everything.
They will try to discourage use of on-screen keyboards (making them dumber and less reliable) to force you to use AI dictation and sell you more headphones.
They're going to integrate AI and make it non-removable. "You need this."
Next thing to take: unlockable bootloaders so you can no longer install an alt OS.
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