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[–] vogi@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Totally with you. For me a perfect phone consists of:

  • Big Ass Battery (BAB) (Also make it changeable, so i can bring one with me and "charge" it in a second)
  • Headphone Jack
  • USB-C (Obviously)
  • 60Hz Display (Once you look at 120Hz you can never go back so I dont want to, also it drains battery)
  • microSD-Card (You can change, maybe with support to up to 1 TB just for funsies)
  • 4G (It is more than enough. 5G also drains your battery)
  • One Camera (Honestly still not over how goofy those 2+ camera sets look, they are even on cheaper phones nowadays)
  • Latest Security Patches
  • Normal sized and light (Have to be able to reach the top with one hand.)

I just want phones to last longer than a day again :(

[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Once you look at 120Hz you can never go back so I dont want to

Too late for me. My current phone has 165 Hz (Motorola Edge 40 Pro) and I don't want to go back to a mere 120, let alone 60.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

My dream phone would be similar, but with 5G and the usual larger size (imo the tradeoff is worth it in my case).

It would also have a silicon carbon battery to have the huge capacity, and most importantly a CPU limiter in the OS to stop it from eating up power by constantly turboing.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I disagree with this one

4G (It is more than enough. 5G also drains your battery)

You'll need to upgrade again if/when the network support changes. I'd prefer that it was future proofed

[–] vogi@piefed.social 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I do not worry about that: I live in Germany. I'll be long dead before anything changes around here πŸ‘

[–] tehsYs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You will never get a phone likes this.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

...Unless you go for Fairphone 6 Plus.

[–] tehsYs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 14 hours ago

There are multiple points which the FP6+ does not meet.

[–] vogi@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Way to ruin somebodies hopes and dreams. :(((

Have the Pixel 3A which gets pretty close. Does not have swappable Storage and only the latest security patches as there are still, what feels like, two random people backporting security patches as its not officially supported by LineageOS. Not sure how long that will last.

[–] tehsYs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 20 hours ago

Sorry I meant as a new phone