Comment on Touchscreen smartphones aren't even fun or novel anymore, they're just necessities for daily life
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 months agoI was selling phones back when most people thought that Internet on a cell phone was a crazy idea. Phones were advancing by leaps and bounds. The difference between a 1MP and 5MP camera was amazing.(mostly) Every year, the new version had features that last year’s wouldn’t dream of.
Now, I’m running a five year old flagship Android, because there still won’t be much of a difference when I finally do upgrade.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 7 months ago
That was insane. I remember reading that 1mp cameras on phones are just years away. I was pretty excited and couldn't believe it. Not two months later they released the first 1mp phone. And that was just the beginning.
The only reason i buy new phones is because it gets really dusty and abused because of work and stuff. So speakers give up, too many cracks to handle and charging port malfunction. It's nice to have a new battery as well. But these super high resolution panels with ridiculous framerates are pretty pointless. I sometimes watch halfeay through a YouTube video and don't realize that it's 480p. And i'm pretty picky with my computer monitor. I want my 2k and my 165fps.
squaresinger@feddit.de 7 months ago
That was a crazy time.
I still have my HTC Universal, which was an absolute flagship in 2005.
My next phone was a Motorola Droid 3, a mit-ranger from 2011.
If you put both of them side by side, these phones could be from different planets.