They’ll take away volume control (SW/HW buttons) and replace with dynamically adjusting “magic volume” so that you can’t mute ads.
Anon notices what they've taken from us
Submitted 11 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Snapz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Oh Christ. You’ve just triggered a premonition in me–the Galaxy S32 Ultra will be the first smartphone with no physical buttons or ports. You can turn it “off,” but that will only turn on a sort of extreme power saving mode. It will still ping your location once every few minutes, and will keep the fingerprint scanner active. You will “turn on” the device by holding your finger on the fingerprint scanner for four seconds. They will advertise the “quick startup” as a new feature. Volume will be controlled by sliding your finger along the right edge of the phone, which the screen will wrap around all the way to the back. It will be impossible to hold the phone without touching some part of the screen.
It will only allow wireless charging. You will not be able to connect it directly to a computer. In marketing, this will be to meet rigorous water safety standards. In reality, this will be to prevent you from using ADB to remove apps that come with the phone. You cannot turn off mobile data. You cannot turn off location. You cannot use a third party SMS application. You cannot choose your own wallpaper. You cannot set a private DNS. You cannot install applications that haven’t been approved by Samsung. You cannot block ads. This is all covered on page 74 of subsection 32(a) of section G8 of the terms and conditions that you agreed to when you set up the phone.
They will meet the physical limitations of how well a small lens can focus light. Zoom will cap out at 150x. Nevertheless, there will be seven cameras.
Xanvial@lemmy.world 11 months ago
correction a bit, you can use adb via wifi. That’s what I do to sideload an app to my Android TV
nicerdicer2@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You will not be able to connect it directly to a computer. In marketing, this will be to meet rigorous water safety standards.
Making devices water-proof is also a marketing scheme to avoid replaceable batteries :
Some manufacturers are already eyeing an exemption for batteries used in “wet conditions” to opt out electric toothbrushes and possibly wearables like earbuds and smartwatches. The exemption is “based on unfounded safety claims,” states Thomas Opsomer, policy engineer for iFixit, in Repair.EU’s post.
Despite the coming up regulation on batteries and waste batteries by the EU Council batteries in water-proof devices will probably be exempt from being replceable, because the water proof feature of the device cannot be guaranteed. This undermines the right to repair and manufacturers can hope that customers replace their entire devices soon. Making phones water-proof is a loophole to seal off the device so that it is not to be repaired, at least without keeping the water-proof features after repairing.
shneancy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
nahhh you’ll be able to choose your own wallpaper, the average user will eat up all of those “feautres” but god forbid Keighleeeigh can’t put her little baby Xaileeyn as her screen saver
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is when I go back to having a “dumb” phone 🫡
CharAhNalaar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why are people up voting this? This is such ridiculous FUD that I can’t take it seriously.
UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That’s when I go flip
BluesF@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh jesus christ I think you’re right
Mango@lemmy.world 11 months ago
These people need stabbed.
Endlessvoid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t forget the RGB notification led!
I switched to Chinese brand phones, they still have all this and they’re dirt cheap, currently rocking an Ulephone power armor 18t, which also has a flir infrared camera and a microscope for some reason. No I’m not joking, they work surprisingly well and have come in handy more than I thought they would!
BluesF@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not sure I’d consider £600 “dirt cheap” but the thermal camera is definitely cool.
Endlessvoid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They have frequent sales, i got it for under 300
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
That was the first thing I missed when I went to a Galaxy S22. But aodNotify works great as replacement (you can make your own notification light this way and customize it, not a lot of battery drain either due to the OLED screen). But yeah, removing the notification light sucked.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
All except the IR blaster, right?
And optional microscope connects to the phone, looks like.
Endlessvoid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, missing the IR blaster unfortunately! It does have an accessory port for microscope/endoscope, I just got an endoscope but haven’t tried it yet.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 months ago
What do you use the IR blaster for? Controlling TVs?
thehatfox@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t forget the RGB notification led!
The Nexus One had this, the trackball had an RGB LED inside it. With custom ROMs it could be customised to flash different colours and patterns for just about anything.
mathematicalMagpie@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The notification LED became a bit obsolete with AOD. I don’t need a bright flashing light, the notification being visible when the screen is off is enough.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How did you buy this? It pretty much had everything I want! Big battery, good screen, SD card, waterproof. Any bugs on it day to day? It does seem to have some shitty Chinese android skin.
Endlessvoid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Aliexpress, or Amazon if you want to pay a bit more but get it faster. I’ve had it a few months, no bugs i’ve noticed, it runs essentially stock Android.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I never had one of those, that I can recall.
aulin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There are different categories of removable.
With my old Note, I had an extra battery that came with case/charger combination. If my battery on my phone died, I could swap the battery in 10 seconds.
Scribbd@feddit.nl 11 months ago
It states that any battery should be removable and replaceable by the user. So this slap on tactic will only work if your device has no internal battery.
I also noticed this is for all batteries. Not just phones, but also cars etc.
aulin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I agree. I used to carry a spare at all times as well. So nice to be able to swap as soon as you get close to empty. I’m hoping we’ll get back there eventually.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No. This law keeps being misquoted, and people are going to be disappointed if they go into 2027 thinking we’ll be able to pop out batteries like the good ol’ days.
It does not necessitate battery removal like that. Only that it not be too difficult to change out for a repair (i.e. stuff like gluing it in place with a strong glue, or necessitating removing the display before the battery).
It also doesn’t apply at all for batteries over a certain capacity, or so long as the battery retains 63% capacity or more (presumably this means throughout the warranty period) from 2027, or 73% from 2030.
There’s also a 2 year grace period after the law comes into effect where it won’t really be applied.
aulin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No. This law keeps being misquoted, and people are going to be disappointed if they go into 2027 thinking we’ll be able to pop out batteries like the good ol’ days.
I know. While I didn’t read the full legal text, tech news sources are saying it needs to be replaceable by an independent third party or the customer themselves with regularly available tools. I’d love to have easy slide in/out batteries, but I know this is not that.
It also doesn’t apply at all for batteries over a certain capacity, or so long as the battery retains 63% capacity or more (presumably this means throughout the warranty period) from 2027, or 73% from 2030.
I didn’t know about this clause. That’s too bad. :(
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This goddamn camera built into my screen instead of above the screen pisses me off so fucking much. So often I have to move a picture down to read the top of it.
IT’S BLOCKING MY MEMES GOD FUCKING DAMMIT MY MEMES
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
People look at me like I’m fucking insane when I get as upset about the blighted notch on my screen as I do. This screen technically has more real estate than my Razer Phone 2 back in 2018 did, but between the obnoxiously tall aspect ratio and the fucking notch, it has like 75% of the usable screen space. You know what was really nice? Watching TV shows on my RP2, with the 6" screen, all of which was used for the video. You know what sucks? Having a half inch of black bars on either side of the screen so that the 16:9 aspect ratio video can fit on the 18:9 aspect ratio screen. And it’s even more ass than that, because the top and bottom of the video look like shit because the screen wraps around the fucking sides.
If the FBI could hear what I have to say about the engineers at samsung, I would have been arrested years ago
AeroNaut@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hey man, I know this is a rant, but in case you didn’t know there should be a setting to resize things to make a black bar at the top. Google it for your phone, but for samsung it’s something like “full sceeen apps”.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just looked. Not a thing for pixel 6A :(
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
- the home button now being a part of my screen instead of… a button.
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You don’t need a navbar if you switch to gesture controls
Wanderer@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I drift through this world in a mood of indifference requently moving into disgust.
But at times I read a comment like this and see that there is still beauty in the world. I love you.
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m sorry but I think we should just be friends
Lojcs@lemm.ee 11 months ago
How often do you come across tall pictures? Most pictures sit well below the camera for me
EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 11 months ago
At least a couple times a day
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
THEY TOOK MY SLIDE OUT QWERTY KEYBOARD!
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re going to bring back an ABCDEF keyboard instead!
coaxil@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Bringing back the t9 typing perhaps?
buzz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah I disagree with cut a hole in your screen and slideout keyboards.
Noone cares about slideout keyboards.But I really miss replaceable battery and 3.5 jack and SD card
IndiBrony@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is indeed the biggest crime. I miss my HTC One!
FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I use Colemak, so I kinda welcome the on-screen keyboard, as the layouts can be switched.
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I love it when uninformed troglodytes complain about a hole in the screen. They didn’t add a hold in the screen. The hole was already there. They just wrapped your screen around it for more screen. 😅
mySFWaccount@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Haha, that’s a pretty good point.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s really infuriating seeing the downvoted on some other replies that point this out. The time/notifications/battery bar along the top used up screen space. Now those notifications are in the formerly dead space with the camera. It is objectively better. It’s not debatable because there is measurably more useable screen space without making the phone larger.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s nothing. Wait until manufacturers figure out that the optimal place for that “hole” is 1-2 inches lower than that. People are going to have a fit about dead pixels in the middle of the screen, even though they can now facetime with “eye contact”.
fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
That’s been solved already by apple and nvidia: Just correct your eye direction with ai.
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
They removed my slide out keyboard, too.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just want my physical keyboard back, damnit!
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They should include a slide out controller now instead
Ummdustry@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
how to reinvent the ninetendo DS in five easy steps.
lichtmetzger@feddit.de 11 months ago
Fxtec still builds phones with slideout keyboards. And Unihertz embraces the old Blackberry form factor.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
The IR blaster needs to come back. They were mostly on phones pre-smart device where they had super limited usage. With a smart device, they could practically do anything. I wanna use my phone as a universal remote, damn it.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I had it on my Xiaomi around 5 years ago, amazing stuff. Could turn on-off air conditioning anywhere, great party trick
DampCanary@lemmy.world 11 months ago
my PICO has it, one remote is great feature, and it’s easier to find when it can be pinged.
vexikron@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Do many people know that there is actually a patent for the idea of an advertisement that plays to a certain point… and then does not end, will not let you skip it, until you as the user, via a camera and microphone, can be verified to have assumed a pose, made a facial expression, and/or said a specific phrase?
The actual patent shows a smart tv ‘owner’ standing up and saying McDonalds! in order to like keep watching Netflix.
We quite literally have the tech and the legal framework for ‘Drink Verification Mountain Dew Can’ to actually be a thing.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Smartphone manufacturers, if you’re reading this:
I spent 6 hours on google to find a phone with a screen smaller than 6 inch. I didn find none (except an old iPhone, but I want android), so I had to buy one 6 inch. It is too unwieldy. I am annoyed.
There is a serious market for people like me. Do not look away. Somebody will buy these phones.
Also, by the way, it’s not bad if the phones are a bit thicker.
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I still have an S9 with a notification LED.
From my cold, dead hands.
CharlesReed@kbin.social 11 months ago
The day I can't find a phone that has an headphone jack is the day I go feral and become a hermit in the woods.
Resol@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You know what else they’ve taken from us? Actually unique designs for phones. When I look at modern day smartphones, for some reason they look like clones of each other. Where’s all the spunk that these manufacturers used to put in their devices?
Fuck you, minimalism. Ever since you’ve ruined my iPhone back in 2013, my life has never been the same.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Physical keyboard? Notification LED?
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 11 months ago
Give me back my goddamed physical keyboard
I still remember the extended conversation I had with the cell phone man on the day I realized that time had moved on, and it wasn't even possible for me to buy a third-party phone that still had a keyboard and then hook it up to their network anymore. I was just going to have to poke haplessly at the glass and get letters wrong for the rest of my life.
IT'S MY MONEY, LET ME BUY THE KIND OF PHONE I WANT
Trollception@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who doesn’t use all the cameras on their phone? Is there like a specific focal length you never use? Or are you unaware that zooming in the camera app switches lenses?
Professorozone@lemmy.world 11 months ago
For me it’s the small size. They are so big now I can’t fit them in my pocket or use them with one hand.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I miss the FM radio
shalva97@lemmy.world 11 months ago
that’s what happens when a product is designed only for 95% of people.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They removed 3 ways water could get inside the phone
FarFarAway@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I feel like this is just a ploy, by the phone company, to figure out what they should deprive us of next.
Stop giving them ideas!!!
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
They removed many useful features that benefited users but spyware only increases
Blackmist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They took the fingerprint scanner out and put a really bad one behind the screen…
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
Here’s my take on what phone companies will do next: replaceable batteries are back! With an inkjet twist:
1- You have to buy them precharged
2- You can no longer recharge them
3- The phone will explode if it detects a 3rd party battery
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Three years ago I predicted Apple would remove wifi from phones and call it a feature.
So far, I was wrong. Thank fuck.
Lemonparty@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Who tf used an IR blaster? And what sane person misses the flimsy plastic back on phones with removable batteries? They didn’t cut a hole in your screen, they removed a half inch of dead useless space at the top and bottom and gave you more usable real estate while also cranking the resolution and refresh rate to 11. Buttons? WHAT BUTTONS EXACTLY? The single enormous one that ate up nearly 25% of the phone and all it did was GO BACK?! And don’t even mention the cameras. Your five cameras you didn’t ask for are why you can film yourself in 4K doing whatever brain dead tiktok fad you saw on your enormous HD screen, and why you can pretend you had front row seats to a concert you sat in the nosebleeds for.
Headphone jack is fair, no argument. I use Bluetooth headphones but I get the rationale. Everything else is stupid.
FunkyMonk@kbin.social 11 months ago
DRM Battery, you can only refill it the X amount of times that is paid for. Don't worry you can have it serviced for an exorborant fee, that will become another subscription.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
I must be a fkn weirdo because I just don’t care about any of these things.
Replaceable battery is an exception - but that’s coming back anyway.
I don’t have any devices that use infra red
I don’t need a microsd because the on board memory is so much I don’t even have to think about capacity any more
I much prefer bluetooth
I much prefer a larger screen instead of buttons.
They didn’t really cut a hole in my screen, they expanded my screen around my front facing camera. You can disable that expanded portion of the screen on most phones ?
I use the rear camera on my phone all. the. time.
neonred@lemmy.world 11 months ago
*laughs in Fairphone 3
Doorbook@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Next will be memory. They will say everything you meed should be stored online for a subscription fee.
littlecolt@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Microsoft is already trying hard. My poor mom did not notice all her files are on OneDrive. Now she has two laptops with everything remote on OneDrive. It’s has some advantages, but it’s annoying in so many more ways.
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
There’s a setting in Onedrive to keep a copy of everything on the device. It will still get stored in the cloud too, but it means that everything will be available if the internet goes down.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I fell victim to that :(
umulu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not annoying at all. It’s peace of mind. People are just not used to it
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Drake in the first picture: marketing.
Drake in the second picture: surprise, we signed you up without asking. You’re welcome.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google keeps trying to back up my non existent photos. It’s annoying.
max_adam@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Google photos made it difficult to download or delete your pictures on purpose. You have to manually select them. There is still a way to get them and it was because of GDPR, when you ask google for the whole data of your account they include the pictures and video from google photos.
Coasting0942@reddthat.com 11 months ago
This is Apple already.
Oh. You can only afford 4GB iPhone? Not to worry, for only $10 a month we can store stuff for you.
AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Also we got rid of photo stream and if you delete the file from the cloud then we remove it from every device