I'm looking at new Android phones since the battery life on my 5-year-old phone is getting quite dismal and it seems to have a lot of issues running out of RAM lately.

There just don't seem to be very many phones with two sim slots AND a dedicated sd card slot these days. I need all of them since I have one sim for talking and texting and a separate limitless mobile broadband sim that can't make phone calls as well as a chunky SD card that I use for photos, video, media, game roms, etc. Unfortunately most lower-to-mid-range phones just have a hybrid slot at best (while high-end phones seem to have eliminated expandable storage completely.)

Basically, I'd have to ditch the internet, having extra storage or the phone's actual function as a fucking phone. The phones I found that do have the slots I need meanwhile somehow have worse specs than my current phone from 5 years ago agony

I guess I could always just carry two phones with me jokerfication

  • AstroStelar [he/him]
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    8 days ago

    If I thought like one of those companies I would say:

    • Making room for a bigger battery, bigger cameras and stuff like a wireless charging coil that reliably gets good reviews,
    • Not enough people using them, so "a sacrifice I'm willing to make" to lower costs of production and reducing phone variants,
    • Declaring those features outdated and deciding that now is the time to force people to "upgrade" to built-in storage or cloud services,
    • Upselling built-in storage and wireless devices, establishing a walled garden and creating a more steady source of revenue,
    • Dumb shit like wanting the sides to be as seamless as possible

    I find it ironic that AES gets lampooned for its lack of variety in consumer goods, meanwhile corporations are continuously killing off their more niche variants and reducing consumer choice.