It is time for another phone revolution
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- Anonymous
- TfW
- 02 Jan 2022
I lost my excitement with the smartphone once it became a tool to track me and sell my data. If it wasn't for the convenience of browsing, I'd go back to a flip phone. "Anonymous" smartphones don't fix the problem either. The Internet and the entire communication network is broken.
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- God
- nDy
- 02 Jan 2022
Anonymous, 02 Jan 2022The punch hole needs to die. Can't believe people have... moreWow you whole reply is wrong
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- OfficialTRider
- ijb
- 02 Jan 2022
Some improvements that are necessary.
Battery: We need higher capacity battery in both phones and laptops. We should be aiming at 12+ hours of uninterrupted gaming on a phone or 12+ hours of uninterrupted video editing on battery using a laptop.
Less & more versatile cameras: 10 cameras on a phone is useless especially when apart from main sensor all the other sensors are of lower resolution and subpar quality, 2 cameras consisting of high quality sensors with multiple adjustable lenses is all that is needed.
New screen technology: maybe microLED or miniLED technology. transparent screens or flexible glass screen.
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- AnonD-909757
- pZV
- 02 Jan 2022
PartTimePhoner, 02 Jan 2022What should replace the punch hole camera?There is no replacing anything with anything, the only good solution is diversity :
Making a bit of everything.
Bezels, pop-up, flip-up, sliders, no front camera, punch holes, teardrop notches, large notches, etc.
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- Anonymous
- Sr{
- 02 Jan 2022
We need a revolution indeed. Both iOS and Android platforms have become mature to a point that I ask myself: what else is there to do? For iOS there is much. Floating windows for other apps than video comes to mind first. But we know how iOS evolves. As long as people are buying it, don't change it. Apple doesn't bother adding numbers to the top row of letters on the keyboard. But for some reason they're there on the iPad. And I'm an iOS user in case someone takes it personally. I would like at least those to be added to the software.
The industry has been busy for the last decade at making that bar faster, thinner, larger with improved cameras and working on software. More features and security, etc.
Those new fold designs turn a chunky phone into a tablet. Fine.
That bar is becoming more and more restrictive. Remove the headphone jack, remove the sim tray. Soon enough remove the charging port. Is that innovation? Or do we at least first need a new and faster way of interacting with the software. Maybe something that involves our eyes. With technology, the sky is the limit. But thanks to the nature of business and money making, it evolves slowly.
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- PartTimePhoner
- Jib
- 02 Jan 2022
Monesh Dedhia, 02 Jan 2022I m fine w/o headphone jack
It was a choice we had and liked. Even your bluetooth headset has one, so that you can switch to it if you need. We shouldnt be fine with them taking away our choices.
"I wasnt using it anyway." = "long live the snake that didnt bite me"
It will bite you eventually, that is for certain
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- Goshak
- IbE
- 02 Jan 2022
Yes, that is what we really need!
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- spY
- 02 Jan 2022
The smartphone market definitely needs a revolution, but I'm very worried it won't happen until Apple does it. Look at Samsung, they're already on a very solid third generation of foldables and their Z Flip series is also good (just needs a solid battery life) and their competitors are also catching on this trend... but I don't see customers lining up for this yet :(
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- Anonymous
- XjH
- 02 Jan 2022
Tony F, 02 Jan 2022Are we not seeing it with the "smart watch" now a... moreYeah. Next thing I want a phone is to be as powerful as early 2011 androids at everything else other than media consumption. That means the smartwatches should be able to handle calls, music and basic voice assistant commands and become a mobile phone. Once that is done, let's focus on AR glasses. Its time to ditch the slab for a watch and glasses.
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- Anonymous
- nmP
- 02 Jan 2022
Foldables and rollables are the future.
People want biggest screen that they can fit in their pocket.
In 2022 there will be more competition and in 2023 i expect we will get new phones with launch price under 1000 dollars.
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- PartTimePhoner
- Jib
- 02 Jan 2022
Anonymous, 02 Jan 2022The punch hole needs to die. Can't believe people have... moreWhat should replace the punch hole camera?
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- HairLover
- G6n
- 02 Jan 2022
Please, please and please. bring back compact smartphones, as for the design, you can design whatever the hell you want as long as it fits my small-sized palms :)
ALL smartphones have 6.0 inch and more, except for a few iphones. why is that -.-?
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- Anonymous
- MVm
- 02 Jan 2022
The punch hole needs to die. Can't believe people haven't rejected this abomination yet. Though I see people driving alone wearing a mask.
Headphone jack and expandable storage must return. They don't preclude any other features.
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- Anonymous
- Uis
- 02 Jan 2022
Monesh Dedhia, 02 Jan 2022I m fine w/o headphone jack Until wireless can offer the same sound quality as wired, I'm sticking with headphone jack.
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- Anonymous
- Uis
- 02 Jan 2022
The cost of sending people to space/moon etc. is astronomical and while it could be justified during the US/Soviet space race, it was harder to justify during peacetime. The US was reduced to fighting petty wars for decades afterwards. We'll see what happens now during the US manufactured US/China coldwar. China has plans of spacefaring and will build a moon base within the next 10 years. We'll see how they go and what the US response will be.
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- AnonD-909757
- pZV
- 02 Jan 2022
Except that whenever anything out of the ordinary is even on the glimpse of being started to come into one's mind as an idea, this awful community that is smartphone enthusiasts already put so much hate on it that it get send to oblivion without having even a chance.
Every market have diversity, you can't quote a single other product than smartphone who has so little diversity, every market one can think about also cover niches and other rarities, the only one who doesn't is smartphones, ironically it is, with the sheer number of options, designs and features available, one of the products that has the biggest diversity potential.
But when there are complains (not constructive or legitimate, just free hate for no reasons) and that people are so entitled they think if something isn't made for them, it shouldn't exist, to the point they can't imagine that, when you say, a phone with X or Y would be great, that you mean all phones have to have that/be like that, because they can't think about phones as something else than something made for them personally...
Well, the result is that it both become impossible to do market analysis, and it scares casuals customers from X or Y thing, so what the market do in this situation?
Simple, they all make the same product, and rather than making stuff that enthusiasts can like, like every other market, they ONLY focus on bringing casuals, which is why useless wars like camera number wars despite 2Mp useless sensors, camera resolution war despite 12Mp sensors being able to do almost as good as those 108Mp, and other useless things over and over again.
Not that they shouldn't exist, but they clearly shouldn't exist on ALL phones.
And since the community has yeeted themselves out of any validation process, ugly stuffs like removing the 3.5mm Jack, SD Card slot, soon the SIM card, USB port and other things are common occurrence.
One of the very rare example of something its community made worse and still haven't learned the lesson.
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- Monesh Dedhia
- 7k4
- 02 Jan 2022
Medalwinner, 02 Jan 2022The first thing to return should be the headphone jack. To ... moreI m fine w/o headphone jack
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- Alfarafakha
- wr4
- 02 Jan 2022
I want craziest design they can make. But with bigscreen+high refresh rate, camera on par with mirrorless, flagship chipset and ram, microsd slot, IP68 or even military grade protection and price not over $1000
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- Monesh Dedhia
- 7k4
- 02 Jan 2022
Yup, the glass bars are not that fun, media consumption. That's it. From processor to cameras to software optimisation all related to content creation & bing watching.
Phones were for calling & Nokia's / HMD Globals KAI OS sucks.