• CaptPretentious@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I miss those days. Back then, cell phones were far more affordable and there was real innovation. Back then there were so many different vendors and so many OS’s, things were actually exciting.

    Now it’s just Apple or Android prices are out of control, features get removed so they can sell you something, and there’s no innovation.

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      9 months ago

      No innovation?

      Over the last few years they’ve innovated ways to do away with removable/replaceable batteries, headphone ports, and SD card slots while also making the phone entirely out of glass and sticking the front facing camera obnoxiously right in the middle of the top of my screen. If that isn’t progress, what is?

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      9 months ago

      I don’t know about more affordable. I’ve paid around the same price for like 15 years and while cheap smartphones used to be total shit now even the cheaper ones do a fine job. I think the price on “adequate” stuff has gone down but the upper tiers have just gotten more expensive.

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        9 months ago

        Yea people forget you don’t have to buy the latest more expensive phone. I have a nord, about 300 to 400 bucks. It’s great. My mom has the latest Samsung, paid a grand and she doesn’t use 90 percent of the features. It’s ridiculous.

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          9 months ago

          I got a Pixel 7 for $400 last year. There are tons of deals to be had

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            9 months ago

            I got a Pixel 6pro for €280 the year before. That will be fine for many years to come.

            I stopped buying flagship phones when they went above €500 or so. And these days I wonder why I ever wanted them.