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Next will be memory. They will say everything you meed should be stored online for a subscription fee.

They'll take away volume control (SW/HW buttons) and replace with dynamically adjusting "magic volume" so that you can't mute ads.

Don't forget the RGB notification led!

I switched to Chinese brand phones, they still have all this and they're dirt cheap, currently rocking an Ulephone power armor 18t, which also has a flir infrared camera and a microscope for some reason. No I'm not joking, they work surprisingly well and have come in handy more than I thought they would!

At least removable batteries will be mandatory in EU by 2027.

This goddamn camera built into my screen instead of above the screen pisses me off so fucking much. So often I have to move a picture down to read the top of it.

IT'S BLOCKING MY MEMES GOD FUCKING DAMMIT MY MEMES

THEY TOOK MY SLIDE OUT QWERTY KEYBOARD!

They removed my slide out keyboard, too.

The IR blaster needs to come back. They were mostly on phones pre-smart device where they had super limited usage. With a smart device, they could practically do anything. I wanna use my phone as a universal remote, damn it.

I want a 0hysical.keyboadd too. Touch screen sucks.

I still have an S9 with a notification LED.

From my cold, dead hands.

I love it when uninformed troglodytes complain about a hole in the screen. They didn't add a hold in the screen. The hole was already there. They just wrapped your screen around it for more screen. 😅

Smartphone manufacturers, if you're reading this:

I spent 6 hours on google to find a phone with a screen smaller than 6 inch. I did find none (except an old iPhone, but I want android), so I had to buy one 6 inch. It is too unwieldy. I am annoyed.

There is a serious market for people like me. Do not look away. Somebody will buy these phones.

Also, by the way, it's not bad if the phones are a bit thicker.

Do many people know that there is actually a patent for the idea of an advertisement that plays to a certain point... and then does not end, will not let you skip it, until you as the user, via a camera and microphone, can be verified to have assumed a pose, made a facial expression, and/or said a specific phrase?

The actual patent shows a smart tv 'owner' standing up and saying McDonalds! in order to like keep watching Netflix.

We quite literally have the tech and the legal framework for 'Drink Verification Mountain Dew Can' to actually be a thing.

The day I can't find a phone that has an headphone jack is the day I go feral and become a hermit in the woods.

You know what else they've taken from us? Actually unique designs for phones. When I look at modern day smartphones, for some reason they look like clones of each other. Where's all the spunk that these manufacturers used to put in their devices?

Fuck you, minimalism. Ever since you've ruined my iPhone back in 2013, my life has never been the same.

Physical keyboard? Notification LED?

Give me back my goddamed physical keyboard

I still remember the extended conversation I had with the cell phone man on the day I realized that time had moved on, and it wasn't even possible for me to buy a third-party phone that still had a keyboard and then hook it up to their network anymore. I was just going to have to poke haplessly at the glass and get letters wrong for the rest of my life.

IT'S MY MONEY, LET ME BUY THE KIND OF PHONE I WANT

For me it's the small size. They are so big now I can't fit them in my pocket or use them with one hand.

I miss the FM radio

Who doesn't use all the cameras on their phone? Is there like a specific focal length you never use? Or are you unaware that zooming in the camera app switches lenses?

I feel like this is just a ploy, by the phone company, to figure out what they should deprive us of next.

Stop giving them ideas!!!

that's what happens when a product is designed only for 95% of people.

Here's my take on what phone companies will do next: replaceable batteries are back! With an inkjet twist:

1- You have to buy them precharged

2- You can no longer recharge them

3- The phone will explode if it detects a 3rd party battery

They removed many useful features that benefited users but spyware only increases

They took the fingerprint scanner out and put a really bad one behind the screen...

Three years ago I predicted Apple would remove wifi from phones and call it a feature.

So far, I was wrong. Thank fuck.

DRM Battery, you can only refill it the X amount of times that is paid for. Don't worry you can have it serviced for an exorborant fee, that will become another subscription.