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I doubt there are many users who still want a headphone jack.
I do. A phone without a headphone jack is like a car without an air conditioner.
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> One of my earliest smartphones was 4.2" The phone, or the screen? The Nexus 5S was the last phone I owned that I could comfortable hold and had a 4.9" screen (diagonal), but with a 70.8% screen-to-body ratio (5.43 inches tall). This Zenfone 9 has a 5.9 inches screen (diagonal) but is less than 1cm taller, and exactly as wide as the Nexus 5S.
This comparison makes me even more excited for the Zenfone 9 — I miss my Nexus 4 and 5 specifically for their one-hand-friendly usage.
I had an Asus Zenfone 8 for around a month, and really liked the design and small form-factor. I am a serial phone switcher, and due to the high'ish price ($700) and mediocre battery life, I returned it. Hoping this one does better!
For what it's worth, I use a Zenfone 8 and regularly get 2-3 days of battery life off it. I came from older, sanely-sized HTC phones, and am actually pretty happy with it - I was lucky to get a day off any of the prior three HTC phones (Sensation, M8, 10) that I had.
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>I honestly don't know what point you're making. My point is that I didn't get the most important new iPad OS features on my new-ish iPad. Apple simply didn't implement those features in a way that makes them work on relatively recent devices. >You realize the Gmail app is not the equivalent of the iOS Mail app right? Yes, but the differences are not relevant to the debate. I'm talking about OS features only, and I'm…
> My point is that I didn't get the most important new iPad OS features on my new-ish iPad. Apple simply didn't implement those features in a way that makes them work on relatively recent devices Like I said already: - there was no magical way to make this feature work on your "newish iPad". - You can even test it yourself: open Safari, open a few productivity apps, and watch the cold starts come flying. - Stage Mana…
I don't know how difficult it would have been to support a broader range of devices. There are always trade-offs involved, engineering trade-offs as well as economic ones. Neither of us is familiar with the technical details or with the options they discussed.
Fact is, this major new feature (and others) is not supported on very recent hardware they sold to me. That's disappointing irrespective of the reasons. And it raises the question how meaningful those X years of OS updates really are.
>So you're arbitrarily deciding which OS features count
I'm counting all OS features but not apps that are only linked to OS releases as a sales strategy. Of course they want to show off new OS APIs in their apps when the OS gets an update. That doesn't require syncronising release cycles the way they do. Many if not most new app features do not depend on new OS APIs at all.
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Except that could easily be achieved by making the phone slightly thicker, instead. When phones are so thin and fragile that a rigid case is practically mandatory, I don't know why "thin" is a selling point.
I completely agree with you. We could solve two problems at once: get rid of a camera bump and make the battery bigger at the same time by using the extra space of the camera bump to house a bigger battery. Not sure why it hasn't happened yet or if it has I don't know if it.
The only problem with Asus phones in general, which is also apparent in their ROG phones, is the lack of updates. Their hardware is top-notch, literally; I've never seen faster phones. But, they don't update them consistently enough, unlike Google and Samsung which have pledged multiple years of software support through Android releases.
It’s sad that no phone maker is playing the open and standard platform game. A brand like Asus would have everything to win with this : they already are recognized as a « geek » brand, they could ship updates with no effort and they could get free marketing from the word to mouth of the « geek of the family ». Instead of that, like any other Android manufacturer in the market, they ship great hardware with shitty or…
Since I have choose to use CalyxOS/any privacy focused ROM, I have been locked to pixels, because all the others have some crap in the system that devs don't want to deal with.
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My bet is always to see which phone is supported by LineageOS, or other alternatives. Typing this on a Moto G6 (2018). I also have a fully patched Nexus 7 tablet (2013). Technically, there's nothing wrong with them. It's just that the vendors can't bring themselves to do the work. Hopefully some legislation will come into place at some point to enforce this.
That's a community effort, and from previous experiences some pretty random things can be broken, but if the contributors don't care, they won't even look into it. It's fine, but it's not an alternative to actual updates. In the same way, mods for games aren't an alternative to the developer just fixing issues.
Unrelated: I want physical keys on my phone, and ideally Android. I have used a BlackBerry Key2 for the last few years, but it could break and it is discontinued I think. Is there any alternative?
https://www.unihertz.com/collections/smartphones/products/ti...
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Its sales was suspended due to certification issue, but is now sold again. Initial price was too expensive but finally it's available at $270. https://iosys.co.jp/items/smartphone/balmuda/softbank/balmud...
Interesting, do you know if one can buy it without a contract internationally? I live in the EU and would be very interested in one.
Here's supported bands https://tech.balmuda.com/jp/support/phone/faq/network/48/