For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up
Actual keyboards, my Moto Droid was my favorite phone I’ve ever owned. Miss it so much. I’d give anything to have an updated version of it.
My 2001 flip phone could schedule sms messages to be sent and it took smartphones a decade ish to add that feature.
I don’t really miss 3.5mm, neither do I miss SD card slots. I don’t even miss replaceable batteries and all that stuff. But I do sincerely miss good devices with physical keyboards. Damn I wish Blackberry came back for a good flagship.
Everything apple and Samsung helped remove from phones to squeeze more pennies out of their customers. Headphone jack, micro SD card slot, ir blaster… etc
I too miss the LED notification light. If you have an amoled display, check this out:
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I also miss the little light
If anything, this thread kind of shows how much people fail to get informed about their smartphone before they buy one.
Literally every single one of these features is available on the market. Most of those phones are actually the quality stuff, like the German produced Gigaset/Volla, or the Dutch (assembled?) Fairphone. But no, you have to go out of your way to get the bottom of the barrel Iphone and Samsung made in China.
People gotta have their blue bubbles you know.
Ooh I’d have to say an IR blaster, before switching to an S23 Ultra, my Huawei P20 Pro had one and a notification light. Didn’t realise how much I used the IR blaster until it was gone.
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Small Flagship Android Phones. Im just not a big fan of phones which doesnt fit into pockets :(
I forget which Samsung galaxy model it was, maybe S6, but it had a universal IR blaster built into the phone which was super convenient for controlling all of my devices. I did however often abuse the shit out of it by flipping the channels on bar tvs or turning off the stereo receiver and nobody was ever suspecting it was me on my phone. I guess that’s probably why they removed it lol, but it was fun while it lasted.
IR blaster.
Ad-Hoc wireless networking. I miss it, was useful back in the day if you needed to share files with multiple people without a wireless router at a location. Most laptops don’t support this anymore. To be fair, I’ve only really wanted to use it maybe twice in the last 10 years.
Pixel phones and I believe Samsung phones just light up the OLED display to let you know that there is notification. An independent LED was only necessary because screens would have to light up the whole display to indicate notification,but now we have better screens so that isn’t necessary.
Privacy.
