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Let's talk about smartphones

I would love to hear everyone's opinion on this subject. To get an idea, you can take a look at some of the questions below, or you can simply share whatever comes up first in your mind.

Here are some random questions to get the discussion started:

  • What kind of smartphone do you own?
  • What are you doing with your smartphone?
  • What are some smartphone specific killer features that you cannot live without?
  • If you could change one thing about smartphones what would it be?
  • Smartphones vs. PC's/laptops - Which one do you prefer and why?
  • What are your thoughts on people who say "I don't have a PC/laptop?"

Re: Let's talk about smartphones

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I would love to hear everyone's opinion on this subject. To get an idea, you can take a look at some of the questions below, or you can simply share whatever comes up first in your mind.

Here are some random questions to get the discussion started:

  • What kind of smartphone do you own?
I don't have a smartphone, even though every grandma and kid uses one in France.

Re: Let's talk about smartphones

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What kind of smartphone do you own?
Currently I have an iPhone 15. I don't like it. My last phone was a Pixel 4a. Didn't like that either.

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What are you doing with your smartphone?
  • Communication
    • Mostly Signal
    • Occasional IRC using Quassel Core
  • Notifications for things I might want to check out on a desktop
    • home server alerts
    • Artix package update notifications
    • email
    • Twitch live stream notifications
  • Music
    • FinAmp to stream from my Jellyfin server
    • My phone was considerably more useful as a music player when it had a headphone jack
  • GPS Navigation
  • Online dating
    • Only because nobody knows how to make a god damn website anymore. Otherwise I would use my desktop.

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If you could change one thing about smartphones what would it be?
Don't burn me at the stake for saying this, but I'd bring back Windows Phone. And not Windows Mobile 10 or whatever Microsoft's last attempt at a mobile OS was, but Windows Phone 7. The last phone I liked was my HTC 7 Pro. I found everything about it so intuitive in ways that Android and iOS have failed to match even in the last 10 years since I last used that phone.

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Smartphones vs. PC's/laptops - Which one do you prefer and why?
Desktop 100%. My desktop is configured exactly how I like it and has virtually no compromises. My phone, on the other hand, doesn't know what "I want autocorrect disabled" means. There's a setting for it but it doesn't respect it. Just as an example.

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What are your thoughts on people who say "I don't have a PC/laptop?"
Maybe this is harsh to say, but I think they're the reason smartphones peaked 10 years ago. I don't care to elaborate.

Re: Let's talk about smartphones

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I have a PinePhone with Artix (ARMtix).

Hardware is not the best...
And the cameras still do not work properly.

It would be nice to run something like the Fairphone 5 with mainline and full support.

Something is working https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone.