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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by gambiting on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @08:49AM (#18864614)
Even though I am an extremely happy owner of a 5T, I won't buy another OnePlus device now that they have removed the headphone jack. That's the difficult part of voting with your wallet - your choices become more and more limited if the market isn't aligned with your personal preference.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by pmontra on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:06AM (#18864731)
Well said. I like small and light phones, not iOS. I'm typing this on an Xperia X Compact (2016). Follow up models weight more and maybe the product line will be discontinued. Even the iPhone SE is dead.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by ForHackernews on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:34AM (#18864901)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/atom-world-s...
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by pmontra on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:17AM (#18865890)
Wow, that's really small. Actually it's what phones used to be before 2007.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by int_19h on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @08:44PM (#18870822)
I have the original Jelly phone, and it's actually smaller than Nokia phones I used in pre-smartphone days.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/jelly-the-sm...

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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by ForHackernews on Friday January 11, 2019 @03:17AM (#18881769)
How's the battery life? I got the Atom even though it's uglier because I read bad reviews of the Jelly's battery.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by ForHackernews on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:26AM (#18865968)
I got one off the kickstarter, and it's a neat little gadget. It hasn't fully replaced my main smartphone, but it's great for outdoors activities, or if I'm wearing an outfit without big pockets and don't want to carry a bag.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by pmontra on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @03:48PM (#18868706)
Did get another SIM or move the one from your phone into the Atom?
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by ForHackernews on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @05:38PM (#18869732)
I swap my SIM when I want to use it, but it would be less hassle to get a separate one.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by pmontra on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:17AM (#18872339)
But then, how do people contact you? Anything tied to your phone number wouldn't work. Perhaps only Telegram, Skype, Messenger work cross device. Phone calls and WhatsApp don't.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by ForHackernews on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:49AM (#18872684)
If I'm out cycling or paddling, I probably don't want to be all that reachable, anyway.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by gambiting on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:35AM (#18872404)
For phone calls, good old call redirect is still a thing :P

No idea about whatsapp though.

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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by imrelaxed on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:55AM (#18865078)
This might be the greatest prison phone ever
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by ProAm on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:35AM (#18864905)
And that one small time they were caught spying on all their users interactions [1] I say that as a pretty happy OnePlus 3T user.

  [1] https://fossbytes.com/oneplus-spying-users-disable/
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by cyphar on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:15AM (#18864790)
Also the 5T camera is awful if you aren't using their proprietary vendor blobs. Custom ROMs like Lineage take absolutely shocking photos.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by secfirstmd on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @09:55AM (#18865087)
Can confirm. You are kinda forced into using their ROM.

I just want a good Android phone with at least some level of enhanced privacy. Its such a pity Copperhead went kinda weird.

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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by conradfr on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @10:08AM (#18865197)
I have the 5 and the photos are awful with the stock app...
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by Kiro on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:31AM (#18866015)
For me it was the opposite, the removal of the obnoxious and ancient headphone jack was one of the reason I bought a 6T.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by gambiting on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:32AM (#18866033)
I'm really curious why you think that. Obnoxious why? How?

And ancient = bad? Boy, do I have some bad news about power sockets you have at home.......

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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by simple_phrases on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:40AM (#18866134)
Audio over Bluetooth has been one of the most consistently terrible user experiences I've encountered, and I used Linux as my daily driver in the early 00's.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by Kiro on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:37AM (#18866090)
I want to embrace the future. The more phones to get rid of the headphone jack, the more headphone companies will realize they need to make wireless versions.
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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by gambiting on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @11:42AM (#18866160)
That's like saying you want petrol stations to start closing down, so that manufacturers hurry up with electric cars. The logic is sound, but in the meantime it would be just bloody inconvenient to drive miles to a nearest petrol station while you still haven't got an electric car.

I want wireless headphones too, but I don't want to use adapters with my existing(and very expensive) headphones that I have right now. More importantly, having a headphone jack does not stop bluetooth headphones from working.

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Re:Samsung Phone Users Perturbed to Find They Can't Delete F... by Fins on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:17PM (#18866536)
It would be nice if there were a way to deliver something resembling a quality audio to wireless headphones first. And a way to connect quality headphones to that magical wireless delivery system. Then you can get rid of a jack.
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