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- Event Horizon
- XWe
There was a time when I used to change phones multiple times a year. For the last 3 years, I’m using a single phone because I didn’t find anything attractive so far. Diversity is dead and so is originality. People are okay with cancer trends that remove features and cause more inconveniences, but not okay with new ideas having minor flaws. A number of good companies went down with their original and interesting ideas only because of our hatred and traditional expectations.
So yes, we’re the problem. All of us. Only we can change it, because we’re also the change.
- Kangal
- D$j
I agree with the sentiments of most of the commenters here.
What can come next are:
(listed from easiest to accomplish to hardest)
– A new smartphone that has all the advantages of the latest luxury options, but none of their disadvantages (they re-add: SIM card tray, microSD slot, Headphone Jack, IrDa Blaster, Active Pen support, Unlockable Bootloader, Flat and Durable design).
– More environmentally friendly (it is completely fixable, modular and uses ethically sourced labour and parts, and does all of this without any drawbacks, Eg FrameWorks).
– A smartphone with a much larger camera sensor, and has the option for the user to replace the lenses (ie Fish-eye, Macro, Ultrawide, Regular Zoom, Ultra Zoom) just like on a DSLR.
– A new material is found, where we can have flexible glass that is as durable as the plastic on 2012 phones. And we adopt the design of the Huawei Mate Fold X. It needs to be a large phone/phablet that is pocketable, but can be folded out to make for a nice small tablet experience (better productivity and consumption comfort). It does all of this without being less durable than a standard phone, like a Samsung S10+.
– Phones with a more advanced wireless solution. So that it can act as a server, and become a powerful cloud solution for your smart-watch and smart-glasses. Want better AR implementation? Instead of a hot processor and thick battery on your glasses, it merely has a thin battery, small camera, full display, and streams everything from your pocket.
– We discover how to bend light. Suddenly holograms become a reality. We get rid of our gadgets completely. Now we have two bracelets on each hand, and a little light from inside our wrists shines the hologram into our palms. We can watch true-3D movies, games, and other tasks. And it acts as a smartwatch at the same time.
– The Matrix.
It’s all Ones and Zeros anyway. Or chemicals in the brain. We implant a chip into our mind, and we enter the Metaverse. Now YOU are the phone. Until the machine uprising, life is going to be so cool in the year 2222. Can’t wait.
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- afronoia
- XTk
PartTimePhoner, 1 hour agoWhat should replace the punch hole camera?There’s no need ro replace it, but it shouldn’t exist in the first place. Phone manufacturers are just lazy. They put the front camera inside a hole in the screen and call it innovation. While they can do a bit more R&D and have something great and clever like Meizu with their Meizu 16 series. Perhaps tech like that would cost more but why not? People are happy to pay 10-15k of dollar for a phone with less choice of features (no 3.5mm jack, no microsd slot, closed OS, less screen estate because of notch or punch hole, etc). Add a bit more price won’t hurt those people.
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- KondriX
- swf
Kaloyan you are right 1000%!!! As I said earlier, the mobile community took a wrong direction in the last few years. They are REMOVING essential features like microSD, 3.5mm jack, sealed batteries, xenon flash, no chargers and instead are adding gimmicks like punch-holes, virtual RAM, 2Mp cameras and others while the prices are going up every year. They are improving the speed but the phones are already fast enough to not make a difference. And ironically, there are people who still defend all these companies for their shady work.
K393168
- KondriX
- swf
PartTimePhoner, 1 hour agoWhat should replace the punch hole camera?A small bezel of course is hundred times better. And you have the space for stereo speakers, led notification light and many more. Look at the Sony, just a clean display without interruptions.
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- Anonymous
- uED
They’ll be back with physical qwerty that closed by a flap again ?
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- God
- nDy
Anonymous, 1 hour agoThe punch hole needs to die. Can’t believe people haven’t rejected this abomination … moreWow you whole reply is wrong
O15643
- OfficialTRider
- ijb
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.
- Demongornot
- pZV
PartTimePhoner, 1 hour agoWhat 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{
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
Monesh Dedhia, 2 hours agoI 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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- Z
- spY
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
- nmP
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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- Anonymous
- MVm
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
Monesh Dedhia, 2 hours agoI 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
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.
- Demongornot
- pZV
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
Medalwinner, 2 hours agoThe first thing to return should be the headphone jack. To hell with everything else.I m fine w/o headphone jack