Personally, I attached a lawnmower to the front of my murder machine so I can more easily shred my victims. Would recommend.

Really curious to see where this goes. It’s a real shame that they banned Huawei in the States. They are doing some wild things with foldables.

That’s great to hear! Makes sense that they would have worked them out eventually. I just never saw a reason to try to switch back. I tried out a bunch of different apps until I found one that I liked and worked well is all.

I’d love to rock my phone caseless, but yeah they are just too goddamn thin slippery for me. I know you can wrap the phone in a decal to make it less slippery, but at that point you’re still covering the look of the phone anyway.

Plus, due to the type of phone I have, I seem to require a particular case for reasons that other people don’t necessarily need. Ex: my phone case has this sort of ring attachment that is much smaller than a pop socket that has become essential for me. I don’t have a way to attach it to my phone directly.

Jerboa was the first app I tried when there were essentially no other Lemmy apps. It worked ok in the very beginning, but then went horribly jank and turned into an almost unusable, buggy mess. Voyager was being developed at the time (then wefwef) and switching to it was like a breath of fresh air. It actually just freaking worked and wasn’t a glitchy mess as opposed to the other apps in development at the time.

If Jerboa has improved a lot since then, then that’s great! But I’d wager that I’m probably not the only one who was deeply turned off by this during its nearly broken phase of development. Voyager just worked and continues to just work, so I haven’t had any reason to try to switch back.

Voyager is a fantastic experience imo. I tried other clients like Jerboa and a couple others I can’t remember the names of. The others were always a buggy mess whereas Voyager actually just worked. Dunno if the other apps eventually improved, but I wasn’t personally keen on sticking around through their significant growing pains when Voyager already existed.

I agree. I laughed at these phones long ago for many different reasons…one of them being the hideous crease.

The thing is that the crease is super noticeable to observers, but it essentially disappears when looking at it head on unless you’re in like bright sunlight or something. Angles are so important here. So I see why non folding phone users balk at the crease…it’s so prominent to them! Actually using it is a different story that you don’t realize until you hold one in your hand yourself!

Idk…glass has downsides too. You drop it and it can shatter. I remember when glass on phones first got big and I saw shattered iPhones everywhere. My brother’s iPhone has shattered back glass.

Still to this day, I kind of wish plastic would make a come back in phones. For some reason every phone nowadays has to be coated in glass on all sides to feel more premium for some reason. Even the backside of the phone has it on devices now. It’s odd to me. Plastic housing is just so much more durable.

I’ve been using my current foldable for 1.5 years and the inner screen is flawless. There are absolutely zero scratches. I wouldn’t say I baby the thing at all, although I also don’t use it like a gorilla. I just use it like a normal phone except I use some common sense things. Probably one of the biggest is just not having the soft screen exposed and unfolded while in a pocket or bag. I fold it up before I put it in a pocket.

Remember when we didn’t put cases on phones? I kind of wish that trend would come back. Some phones are absolutely gorgeous and slapping an ugly case on it just ruins it.

One of the problems is that phones are so goddamn thin and slippery nowadays that it’s hard to grip them without.

I see what you mean. I personally found the camera bump design they have on the Pixels pretty ugly tbh.

In general, whenever a phone has a huge camera bump, it seems to essentially require that you put a case on it. Otherwise it rocks all over the place when you try to lay it flat. Idk.

Wow, what phone is still working fine after 9 years???

I feel like 5 years is generally the upper limit of usage due to battery issues, spontaneous hardware failure, slowness due to advancing tech standards, etc. A user serviceable device would be able to help with some of these things but still…

Do you wirelessly charge your device?

Part of the reason the Z Flip 4 and 5 sold so well is that Samsung gave absolutely insane trade in deals to Americans. I think I paid something crazy like $50 or $100 for my Flip 5. I’m not entirely sure why they did this. I guess it was to help generate popularity, but it wasn’t exactly a sustainable business model. They did NOT do the crazy deals for the Flip 6, so it obviously sold significantly worse.

I’m going to be honest and say that I do not understand most of the technical jargon in that article or how it applies to the scenario. I don’t know what to tell you because both my and others real world experience have seen battery improvements when disabling 5G. Could just be where the towers are in my area or something, but that’s how it is for me and others.

When my phone is connected to a 5G signal, it is connected to “5G UC” which the forum user in the first article stated is a specific type of 5G signal which consumes more battery. I don’t know if that bit about it being a specific type of signal is true, but the battery effect I have noted in practice. I don’t have a Pixel phone, but I do use T-Mobile. I also often have a worse time trying to use data when my phone says “5G UC”…occasionally giving me a poor signal unless I disable it. I live in a very well populated, major metro area supposedly with good 5G coverage. I don’t live out in the sticks and I don’t live in an incredibly hyper dense urban center with excessive people crowding the cell towers. My phone is a flagship-level phone from 2023. So idk.

Edit: I feel like this is the 1080p vs 4k debacle all over again. I cannot for the life of me tell the difference between the two at a normal viewing distance. On a computer monitor? Sure. On a TV where you’re sitting across the room and not on top of the screen? Absolutely not. Same with 4G vs 5G for me. No discernible difference in speed for “normal” usage. I’m sure if I was cloud gaming or torrenting a file I’d notice, but the average person isn’t doing that.

5G utilizes more power than 4G.

Here are some random links when searching about the phenomenon :

https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/197006039/using-5g-network-drastically-reduces-battery

https://www.reddit.com/r/LGV60/comments/1asjta8/does_5g_consume_more_battery_and_if_so_how_much/

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/troubleshooting/TSG01201462/

https://www.androidauthority.com/does-5g-use-more-battery-3234940/

5G also does not seem to penetrate well in buildings, causing the phone to constantly be searching for a network under this circumstance.

5G causes crazy battery drain and I don’t at all notice a noticeable difference in speed with it with typical cell phone usage. Not sure what I would need to do to actually notice the speed difference. Torrent a file? I have 5G disabled on my phone. Every now and then, I get a text from my cell carrier saying that my phone is 5G capable and I should enable it for better speeds.

Ok but why is my browser doing this in incognito mode? Incognito mode isn’t a banking app. It’s me not wanting my browser to save my Facebook login info or history.

Seriously this reads like a sketch. Maybe a Seinfeld one where they all talk about it afterwards lol

I agree that modern smartphones are too big, but that’s what the vast majority of the options are nowadays. I don’t know if you can call it a “gimmick” anymore if literally all of them are like that. It’s getting harder and harder to find a reasonably sized phone. But believe me, if I didn’t have a folding phone, I’d be looking out for small phones like the Zen phone.

? Just because it’s not practical for everyone doesn’t mean it’s “just a gimmick”.

Modern smartphones are freaking gigantic. Women’s pants pockets are comically tiny. Modern smartphones physically would not fit in the majority of my pants. I bought a Z Flip so I could fit a modern phone in my pants and not be forced to carry around a purse.

The length is important for women’s pants pockets, not necessarily the thickness. It is practical for me. No, it’s not practical for everyone.