“Virtually no one I know carried around multiple batteries or needed more storage”

Removable batteries are less about being able to Cary multiple and more about being able to swap them out with ease when they go bad. People that keep their phones for longer then a year or two will notice the decrease in battery life that can only be fixed with a new battery.

Phone storage has improved a lot and I kindof agree with you on this one, though having the option would still be nice. I also often used them for rooting phones and flashing an OS. That’s edge case though.

Bluetooth costs more and is another thing that you need to charge. I’m so tired of needing to charge everything.

There is absolutely no sense here. We should remove options for all people based on what your experience is? It’s almost like giving options is painful? And I’d carry batteries if it was an option, and I did when it was an option a looooooong time ago. I have a bunch of storage on my phone and and sd card and google drive and my own nas. I’d use a headphone jack every single day if I had one, but I don’t have one.

You speak as if giving people options would take something away from you. Wouldn’t it be best if we could all get what we want? Anyway, this is all done so apple and android manufacturers can make more money. Literally none of these changes were done so you could live a better life

Yes, but batteries break, so do headphones. You shouldn’t advocate for less options, just makes you seem like a shill.

Battery: I don’t want to carry around a spare bit I want to be able to easily replace one at the and off is life. I bought an ifixit replacement kit for my S10+ and still didn’t find the courage to try it.

Storage: I don’t want to use cloud storage for my pictures so I have a large SD card just for images and videos. If I switch phones I just switch the card.

Headphone jack: I lose bt earpieces. Had three pairs up to now and all I have left is one piece of each. I lose wired headphones sometimes to but not as frequent and they are way cheaper. Also ease of use I think bt never really matured, yes it got way better but still had it’s quirks. Wired headphones, just plug then in.

Why not just get a “lensless” camera and pair it to your phone? Imo smartphones still have a way to go to be as fast as they need to be.

Still, if you’re dead set, it seems a number of phones with 1 inch sensors are coming out, although it doesn’t look like they’re compatible with attachable lenses.

Agreed. I want someone to step up and build a photography-centric phone like the Nokia Lumia 1020 again. I know lots of flagships can take good pictures nowadays, but that’s something different from building an actual camera first phone.

Nexus One

:(

Galaxy S5 + it also has an IR blaster and heart rate reader.

LGV60.

Some of my fav features:

• 5AH Battery + 25W QC (100% in 2hrs) + WC, battery isn’t removable but phone is easy to repair

• Expandable Storage

• Headphone Jack with a HiRes 32Bit DAC

• Loud stereo speakers that don’t suck

• 1080P/60Hz/HDR10+ P-OLED

• Wacom Stylus compatible

• Desktop Mode

• Dual Screen Case - LG mirrored the display into a case that the phone can easily drop in.

• USB C 3.1 OTG

• Still receiving quarterly security updates 3.5 years after launch to include A13 even after LG shutdown their mobile division in 2021

• 5G, Wifi 6, BT 5.1

• FM Radio

• Rootable with community tool on XDA

The only things I wish I could change are:

• Cameras for better resolution for macro/landscape shots. Anything further than 10 feet from the camera loses detail extremely quickly. Camera can record 4k60FPS but the second you crop or zoom in on anything, all the details are blury. It’s baffling to me.

• Higher refresh rate display even if it was only 90hz.

The only phone that can beat this in features is the Sony Xperia line at ~ 5x the price. Broke my first one and immediately grabbed a second one off swappa.

They had amazing keyboards. I could type sooo fast on my curve.

I think it is useful when you don’t have an OLED screen. Else you can just have an AOD

I remember mentioning the LED on a reply, then one person replied to that saying that they miss the LED. Several people upvoted that.

Aren’t there phones which still have led? Though I guess you can’t test it

Still got one on my Sony Xperia 1 IV

Unfortunately, 1080p 60fps LCD display is way too bad for me to consider it.

man, i wish i had one

I wanted a FairPhone, but they have yet to sell officially in the US and I couldn’t afford to deal with the potential difficulties involved with not having the right bands.

Oh yea. Even has Android 13!

Just ordered the 5 despite them removing the audio jack… Yeah I’m a bit salty about that

Custom ROMs should be first on the list

Come on, don’t leave us hanging

LG v20 was the pinnacle IMO. I’m still on mine because I can’t find anything that isn’t a downgrade in functionality.

Ugh I hate how true this comment was.
Honorary commendation for the lg v20 as well.

Oneplus one. Hands down. It was as good as S5 with exynos that was thrice the price, allowed custom roms (came with inbuilt cyanogen os) and the sandstone finish was amazing.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 made me a meme at my local network provider store between 2013 and 2015. That model just kept on breaking for no discernible reason.

My first S4 (S4 0), the one that I actually bought with my new service plan, held up nicely for about half a year. Then, it started to randomly power off. Using my phone as my alarm in the morning, I overslept several times due to this. It also just randomly turned off in my pocket, and later even in my hand. I was able to replicate the error in the store. They replaced the phone with a new one (S4 1).

The entirely brand-new phone had a swelling battery after three months, which I replaced out of pocket with a new original one. This one, too, bulged up soon. A third, off-brand battery did the same. Back to the shop I went. Of course, they told me it ought to be user error, which I couldn’t disprove on the spot. So I offered to insert one of their brand new batteries and leave my phone with them for two weeks, using a loaner. They accepted and, lo and behold, the phone inflated that battery, too, just lying in their shop drawer being charged. This got me my second replacement device (S4 2).

This phone had no electronic problems. The screen, however, sat visibly snuck between the bezels. I applied a then-novel glass screen protector to the screen instead of the usual adhesive films. The screen developed tension cracks below the screen protector. Back in I went and got the screen replaced under warranty (to my own surprise). I even had them apply a new protector screen which had a little bubble around a speck of dust at the bottom. We were on first name basis at this point, so we laughed about it, arguing that the bubble needn’t annoy me too, since I’d be back soon anyway.

I was back soon, anyway. The screen cracked again. They remembered the bubble, saw I hadn’t dabbled with the protector, and surmised that the fault needed to be this phones faulty manufacturing. I got the third replacement (S4 3). It’d be my last one, too.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 was a great phone, in and of itself. It had great features at a competitive price point, was really slim and offered good performance while not entirely buying into the whole phablet trend. I liked it, in concept. The people at “my” cellular shop assured me that it was, in fact, freaky how often I had problems with the model. They were said to be as reliable as the current iPhones.

My last Galaxy S4 started to show the known power-off issue a few months shy of 2 years since my original purchase, meaning the EU-mandated warranty was about to run out. I sold it as partly defect and got a different brand phone.

Truly a legendary phone, just like the Nexus 6P

I like the distinction, nice