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[–] [email protected] 78 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What kind of sadistic shit bag would actually want those defective easily broken pieces of trash back???

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I want full size USB-B on all phones. Fight me

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Thicker Phone with a longer battery and durable. Sign me up.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Nope. It's aaaaaall camera bump.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Camera bump really pisses me off. Just make the phone thicker with a longer battery damnit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Your phone is now a cylinder behind the camera.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

God yes. I absolutely HATE that phones got slimmer and slimmer while also consuming more battery - which can’t be swapped like the good old days.

I’ve got giant hands. Give me a phone that’s AT LEAST twice as thick with a battery that lasts at least three days.

I’d absolutely carry a large Motorola brick phone style if those were still viable today. They do make retro gimmick phones like it, but you really do need a smartphone for a lot of specific apps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unihertz and Oukitel both make "rugged" phone models with giant batteries - aimed at weekend campers with giant hands. And Fairphone and Volla both have phones that still allow for easy battery swapping.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Neat, I've never heard of those. Unihertz makes one with a projector in it... that's wild. I'd be hesitant to buy a phone that's sold on AliExpress though, I'd assume OS support wouldn't be that great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, software support tends to be pretty bad for their devices, with few updates, and they are often bad with posting kernel source for their devices, so hard to get custom roms or flash alternative OS's on them too. But if you want a phone that has a battery that can last 3 days straight - they are indeed available for purchase

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

There are a ton of those in the market already

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Just give me an AGP slot on my phone. Hell, toss in a SCSI while you’re at it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If battery technology werenʼt still stuck in the Vietnam War era, 2-second rapid charging would require something like a thick boi USB-B cable to satisfy everyoneʼs desire to also use their phone as a tazer/hand grenade/flying drone/cardiac defibrillator/space heater.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I've had 400% more failures of USB C than of micro. Keep in mind I've only had C for a couple years, and micro for 14 across numerous devices.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

That's got to be something you're doing. Cause I've had exactly zero problems. In fact I don't think I've actually met a person who's ever had a problem with USB - C. But I have boxes (plural) of dead micro USB cables and, on top of that, I have so many devices that have been rendered useless by the fact that the micro USB port has been blown or damaged in some way it's not even funny.

Edit, these are not all mine. They are from multiple people.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm with you. Those spring-latch-things on the micro just give up on life and the whole thing becomes useless or tears apart the port you try to plug them into. I say leave them in the past

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I love the counter argument of "oh, the USB - C gets dirt in it". As though that hasn't been an issue with every port ever conceived. 😒

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Was a lot less of an issue with lightning than with other connectors, but I realize that people hate the lightning for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People hate lightning because it's proprietary

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

And because of the little metal piece that would break off and prevent your phone from charging. You could just weasel it out with tweezers but most people would think their port was broken because they didn't know it was even an issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

LG phones were notoriously bad...the v60 especially had a defective port.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what you're doing because I've had 0 failures with it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Type-C ports are a lot more sensitive to dirt in my experience. I can keep it working if I clean the port every couple weeks, but at this point I just pretend phones don't have charging ports.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Sounds like you need to invest in some port covers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

They are, but it hasn't been a problem for me. I clean the port on my phone maybe twice a year

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Me too, first two phones I had with USB C both developed issues with the port, one shorted in the port, the other for some reason could only be charged with one specific cable, oriented in only one direction. Never had any issues with the ports on any previous USB micro phones.

The current one works alright though, and its capable of detecting water and dirt in the port, so probably won't short itself. So I think the technology is improving.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

In my experience, that's what tends to happen with a dirty port/cable. Cleaning it out solves the problem 99% of the time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

My anecdotal experience is the complete opposite of you two lol. Tons of issues with micro-b and a few broken connectors. No issues thus far with C.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Do not taunt micro USB adapter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Failures of ports or cables?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Definitely user error.