@obsoletesony Plasticky with tiny buttons, a low-res screen, two big logos on its front, another on its side and a huge, proprietary port full of delicate pins? The progress of our portables since 2007 is undeniable.
The people who unleashed tech on us all might suck, but the devices don't.
Ok but modern phones:
Are made of brittle glass, have resolution higher than anyone could possibly see, wasting processing power and battery life, regularly _remove_ features we had for years just to sell another wireless option that doesn't actually work, and the only port anything has anymore is _THE WORST PORT IN THE HISTORY OF HUMAN KIND_
roughly '08 to '14 was the _only_ even _remotely_ good era for smartphones.
@OpenComputeDesign Respectfully disagree, but to each his or her own. USB-C is ambidextrous and omnipresent. Not sure how that qualifies as an all-caps WORST IN HISTORY. I'm thinking about for normals, not nerds. One cable for phone, laptop... whatever you need for a week's vacation.
Glass is better than ever and a reasonably responsible person doesn't break their phone.
Battery life is "all day." The phone recharges overnight, while most humans do.
I'll still take today.
@carmanjelo It's only "one cable" if you magically get the _right_ cable. It would honestly be easier if each function had a separate cable, then trying to make sure your cable has all the functions you need. It's also, by it's architecture, actively risky for your devices. Almost worse for "will this charger+cable blow up my device" than the old barrel plug days.
And even micro-usb was less prone to getting dirty and plugged
Glass is fine, I guess, if you aren't someone who does manual labour
@carmanjelo And one day battery life with charging at night would work a lot better if it wasn't for the fact that if your charger fails to charge your phone, it will actually _discharge_ it.
Besides, modern phone software is _beyond unusable_
i still have my N900
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The 2000s was a time of proprietary crap, but it was also a time of buttons being reasonably expected on phones.
Even today's 'gaming phones' don't have buttons and usually need to rely on Bluetooth controllers just for tactile controls, though the buttons on flip phones of the 2000s were never that great either.
But I miss being able to feel what you are typing, even if most of these phones are so small anyway, I've never been old enough to experience having a little Sidekick and feeling its little keys with my giant fingers.
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