I turned off ALL of my autocorrect functions a year ago, now my "i" is 8 most of the time and no punctuationn marks either, its joker time bby!
When's the last time you actually used T9? On-screen keyboards are way way faster
The rest of your criticisms are spot-on though
That is a real advantage, you can use T9 entirely by feel with some experience and you can't with a soft keyboard. That said I'm currently on an Alcatel Sparq II (a dog chewed up my smartphone) and T9 is dramatically slower for me than even a shitty OSK was, much less a modern one with haptic feedback and gesture typing. Luckily this phone also has a slide-out keyboard so I don't have to rely on it
You can get T9 keyboard apps on Android (with the T9 dictionary as well), but the main thing is losing that physical sense of touch.
Swipe typing is the fastest way on mobile, and really smooth if your phone has a high refresh rate screen.
Don't forget how you can't change the OS or pretty much anything about how the phone works beyond a very narrow set of google/apple approved settings.
And don't even get me started on the ways it is actively hostile to the user in this default state.
I'll use it when they make it so that double clicking your headphones skips ahead 30 seconds like every other podcast app.
Disable autocorrect lmao. how do people constantly complain about this but keep it on!?!? Also you can connect keyboards (the big kind) to your phone or use speech-to-text.
Best phone ever made was the Droid 4 which could slide out to reveal a full thumb keyboard. Unfortunately they killed it by updating the OS until it ran extremely slow.
Yeah, I miss the old droids with the physical keyboard and removable battery. Used mine so much all the keys fell off though lol
Idk if you still have your old phone, but as a weekend project you could put a custom rom and kernel on your old droid 4 to see if that lets it do what you need it to.
I feel like if my old phone's wifi/Bluetooth chips didn't stop working then i would be fine on my 2013 nexus 5. That phone was my favourite to hold, its bezels were the right size, it looked good. Phones are getting way too big, it's hard to find a one-handable one for a reasonable price.
Only the amoint of cameras on phones have gotten better but I barely use cameras so I don't care.
I remember when I could lock my phone into landscape mode. Now I can only lock it into portrait, which I have basically never wanted.
I remember when my phone didn't have a fucking dedicated button to bring up a voice assistant I have never wanted to use, but which gets activated half the time I put it in my pocket. I remember when my phone had a programable button that defaulted to take photos when in the photo app instead.
Oh, also got some rare bug where my phone's cpu usage monitor consistently uses too much of the cpu and warns me about it. There is no solution.
google decided to change the power button hold-down on android 12 and make it pull up google assistant by default
so fucking obnoxious
Got Google assistant telling at me whenever my headphones aren't plugged in just right despite disabling it as much as possible and Samsung's Bixby on the button. Such utlity.
It's ok the same people who brought you that janky bs are now going to try to build a VR world that you're forced to interact with and it'll be great
- fuck UI animations.
- how many years did OLED screens exist before they finally started poking at dark themes that are unfinished to this day?
- why do between 30% and 99% of notifications randomly disappear on reboot?
- why am i constantly being nagged to log into some bullshit account?
:rage-cry:
I don’t mean “being constantly connected with the world is A Bad Thing”
:I-was-saying:
The Nokia N900 was the only good phone, so of course they got bought by Microsoft and it was killed. There's a fascinating (if you're a nerd) lecture (link) about X11 and Wayland which was given by one of the guys who worked on it.
A pocket Debian machine with a pull-out keyboard, FM radio transmitter, NTSC/PAL video output though the headphone jack, and a kickstand. It could play YouTube videos when YouTube still relied on Adobe Flash. You could hijack the stereo at any party and pick from 32GB of music on the toilet. You could torrent movies and play them directly on a TV. You could also call people. It was incredible.
touchscreens are infinitely worse than buutons and I should be able to turn my phone off with just a button.
Also you can just buy a non-touchscreen burner phone for like $20
i think you got a buggy ass phone, my phone does literally none of those things
I feel like a boomer with this shit, but I swear to god too that modern smartphones are garbage for call quality. I don't know if it's that they all have overzealous noise cancellation, or shitty earpieces, or both, but damn, half the time I dread making calls on a phone it's because I'll sound like an idiot asking folks to repeat shit.
Whenever I switch between a phone call and a voip call through and app with someone, the difference is always a bit jarring.
The phone company is compressing your call to fit more calls through the same ancient infrastructure, more than likely.
Meh phones are fine. I only hate how you really can’t get anything fixed (only ever had iPhones tho lol). Usually it’s easier to get an entirely new phone when all I want to do is replace the fucking battery.
The old SE-series iPhones are reasonably easy to repair, I've done screen and battery replacements for some of my friends and it's a cinch as long as you've got the right screw driver (a dumb 5-point proprietary one, they're like $5)
