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I think of the Porsche 911 as a good example, beautiful but boring in its design iteration. It’s considered the top of its class in so many fields.
That’s how I feel about many things such as the aforementioned hd600. Classic design and outstanding performance.
Take a scroll on their website.
https://us.nothing.tech/pages/phone-2?variant=42721597718680
Asus ROG Phone has an optional active cooling fan you can attach to the back of the phone, and side mounted USB port for maximum gaming. These don’t appeal to me like the Nothing, but it’s different and fun.
>Why today’s phones are so boooooring? Because the HW part of the UX has been commoditized to a giant screen where the big difference in style and UX is made by the SW and UI. In fairness LG has tried experimenting with different HW UX over the years to distinguish themselves[1], and they went bust doing it because consumer weren't into that and voted with their wallets to those making boring phones like everyone els…
I miss my LGs for exactly this reason. They were just about the only ones doing anything 'new' beyond "hey our camera is 12% better than last year!" My Pixel 7 Pro is great and all, but it doesn't do anything _interesting_
Planning to collect all dual screen but they are kind of run out of stock.
LG's dual screen implementation is amazing. Both screen can operate separately, that's true multi-tasking! Damn I wish I bought more back in the days.
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I miss my LGs for exactly this reason. They were just about the only ones doing anything 'new' beyond "hey our camera is 12% better than last year!" My Pixel 7 Pro is great and all, but it doesn't do anything _interesting_
Still using LG V50 for 3.5 years baby. Bought 2 more as spare. Planning to collect all dual screen but they are kind of run out of stock. LG's dual screen implementation is amazing. Both screen can operate separately, that's true multi-tasking! Damn I wish I bought more back in the days.
>Why today’s phones are so boooooring? Because the HW part of the UX has been commoditized to a giant screen where the big difference in style and UX is made by the SW and UI. In fairness LG has tried experimenting with different HW UX over the years to distinguish themselves[1], and they went bust doing it because consumer weren't into that and voted with their wallets to those making boring phones like everyone els…
Every time I got one for use as a main phone. Granted, in the last 15 years I first got Openmoko Neo Freerunner, then Nokia N900, then Librem 5 that I write this on; and before that I was a teenager in the era when getting a phone that had a camera was already cool... but they were all very exciting.
I remember the announcement of the first iPhone (somewhat exciting... but a complete disappointment as soon as it released) and Android (very exciting at first, but then slowly getting to iPhone level of disappointment).
Before the Librem 5 arrived I had to augment my N900 with an Android phone for about two years. That was annoying, but thankfully I could get excited again soon enough. I miss the keyboard though, capacitive screens still aren't great for writing.