Weekly poll result: titanium emerges as the new material of choice for smartphones
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- 18 Feb 2024
People are dumb. When you have titanium frame most forces will go to the glass, aluminium will absorb some forces.
That is why s23ultra goes better in phonebuff test than s24ultra, and s23u even have edge display.
Harder the metal glass will break more.
Its better to have some straches on frame than go to replace screen.
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- Anonymous
- mp2
- 18 Feb 2024
DashF, 18 Feb 2024Poll is proof that consumers will eat anything up as long a... morePoll is proof that users prefer better metals
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- kmS
- 18 Feb 2024
Whats the point of poll like that when the metal is only on the sides.
I want a phone with metal back no glass... It can even have a wooden circle on the back to allow for QI2 wireless charging.
With that i could get rid of cases.
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- gMB
- 18 Feb 2024
[deleted post]Poll is proof that consumers will eat anything up as long as it's hyped and advertised
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- 18 Feb 2024
potato4k, 18 Feb 2024This is misleading. There's no phones using Titanium f... moreDidn't the Essential Phone use titanium for its frame back in 2017?
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- 6p6
- 18 Feb 2024
Can someone explain how holding a phone with an aluminum, steel or titanium frame is different?
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- potato4k
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- 18 Feb 2024
Tomio, 18 Feb 2024Come on its always the same, the most expensive option gets... moreThere's no phone with titanium frame. Those "titanium" phones are aluminum frames with titanium "paint" for cosmetic purposes.
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- vGJ
- 18 Feb 2024
I don't remember the essential phone having cloud gimmick. I think it was Nextbit Robin.
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- Anonymous
- vGR
- 18 Feb 2024
Plastic is still good enough for most intents and purposes. I'm looking at the screen. I'm not going to lick the titanium frame to get nutrition or something. This whole premium material bullshit is just nonsense spread by smartphone companies to make people pay more.
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- 18 Feb 2024
71% want Stainless Steel, Aluminium, Ceramic, Plastic
but only 29% want Titanium
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- Tomio
- nc0
- 18 Feb 2024
Come on its always the same, the most expensive option gets the most votes, but obviously the majority of those votes are not actually going to buy a phone with a titanium frame.
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- Chuck007
- 2Fy
- 18 Feb 2024
Let's face it folks. People want titanium because we're a little bit tired of the same thing year after year. Even a super minor thing can be marketed as "revolutionary".
Got to say the stainless steel is holding up perfectly on my iPhone 13 Pro though. No dents/scratches and still looks like new after 2+ years.
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- Anonymous
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- 18 Feb 2024
"aluminum phones can be quite rigid"
What are you saying? The titanium phones you listed are basically using an Aluminum frame only for the rigidity.
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- Anonymous
- fCE
- 18 Feb 2024
Surprisingly there's no mention of plastic anywhere despite almost a fifth of votes. Biased article
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- Anonymous
- 3SI
- 18 Feb 2024
>iPhone 15 and 15 Pro
Wrong, 15 uses aluminum. Only Pros use titanium
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- potato4k
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- 18 Feb 2024
This is misleading. There's no phones using Titanium frame. It's a poor material for that. So even the "titanium" iphone 15 Pro basically uses aluminum frame. The titanium is basically just an outer "paint" bonded to the aluminum frame. It's just for cosmetic.
The the majority of answer technically is aluminum. Stainless steel is solid, but considering the increasing weight of other components like camera modules and battery, it becomes a liability in usability.
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- rizki1
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- 18 Feb 2024
aluminum is still my choice, old phones like the iPhone 6s, 7, Xperia XZ1, Redmi Note 5 Pro still look premium compared to glass or plastic on most phones now.