• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 months ago

    It's time to stop thinking phones are anything but commodity hardware with variable degrees of shittiness. There are no such things as premium phones, just premium prices.

  • Luna@lemdro.id
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    3 months ago

    FINALLY someone gets this. I don't care about the "premium look" whatever that means, I just don't want my phone to break when I accidentally drop it. Which is why I always put a case on my phone

    In fact, I'm pretty sure phone manufacturers started putting glass on the back of phones specifically to make them less durable so that customers buy a new phone sooner

  • Dark_Dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    "Glass is glass, and glass breaks" I want a metal back phone. I don't care about wireless charging.

    • 8GB ram
    • 250 GB memory
    • ">6000 mah" battery. Thickness doesn't matter.
    • Fast charging
    • 120hz display

    Can anyone suggest me an Android that has all these?

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 months ago

      I want a metal back phone

      Steve Jobs did too, they still needed a plastic window for some antennae on the OG iPhone, then went to full plastic. It has become worse now, the back isn't just for wireless charging. It is also for NFC, UWB, and often cellular/gps/wifi/bluetooth may share antenna connections through the back.

      Right there with you though. NFC could probably be packed in a band at the top of a phone. UWB seems of dubious value thus far.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    I find the cheap phones are often the "premium" ones.

    Those are the ones with plastic backs, headphone jacks, multiple SIMs, smaller size, lighter weight, good physical fingerprint readers, etc.