I feel sorry for phone reviewers, trying to type out five thousand words without breaking down and gibbering "It's a black rectangle! Just like your last phone! My job is pointless!"
@ifixcoinops nothing is a more perfect encapsulation of this than the the thing where they won't stop trying to make foldable screens happen so you can have... a black square, i guess?
just give me a fucking keyboard, you cowards!!!
@brennen Foldable means another thing to wear out even faster than the battery, so manufacturers are ALL IN ON THAT
@ifixcoinops a billion person hours of engineering time getting rid of headphone jacks and buttons because, they assure you, patting your head like you're a recalcitrant toddler, water might get inside your black rectangle.
meanwhile: i know what if we put a hinge down the middle of the combo display and only allowed input device?
@brennen who are all these people who dunk their phones in water anyway, I've never done that
@ifixcoinops @brennen I’m a firefighter so water resistance is something i care a lot about lmao. Nothings worse than kneeling in 2 feet of water and then realizing that your phone is in your pocket
@Jetengineweasel @ifixcoinops i grant the salience of the use case - i myself, though i serve no similarly useful function in society, *have* spent a lot of time biking through deluges, wading through muck, and falling into small rivers.
on the other hand, in 20 years of having mobile phones, i have somehow managed to lose 0 (zero) devices to water infiltration. i think i'm running at like 70% lost to planned obsolescence. (the other 30% is dead batteries and cracked screens.)