• kirk781@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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    2 days ago

    Not all phones listed are equally bad though. Nokia Pureview suffered from bad camera quality but I can live with that. What probably is unlivable is exceptionally short battery life, like on the HTC one. Still, an interesting opinion piece, if nothing else.

    • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idM
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      2 days ago

      I had both HTC One’s and while the camera on both of them especially the m7 was dire purple durple shite, the battery life was never an issue for me and was when I first started seeing 6hr+ SOT constantly.

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          2 days ago

          Yes, I was referring to HTC Thunderbolt from the article. My current phone itself has relatively low battery life and it annoys me. One would have needed to charge the Thunderbolt phone probably twice a day

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      2 days ago

      This is really poor of the Nokia as well, though

      It also didn’t help that the phone’s in-display fingerprint sensor was bad. In fact, it was reported that the scanner could be spoofed with chewing gum.

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    I thought that Cyrcle phone sounded interesting but it appears to have never actually released. They also just used the normal Android UI so all kinds of stuff gets cut off in the corners of the display. So dumb.

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      23 hours ago

      2 headphone jacks, SD card expansion, USB-C, a micro USB port and removable battery.

      Sounds overkill but sounds great to me.

      i really don’t know how they would make other apps work with this though.

      Interesting to see if this design is better for one handed operations though.