cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/12741016
I miss the slide out qwerty keyboard my old HTC Inspire had.
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I wonder what the new XCover FR, which is assumed to be in development, will be like
Anyone got experience with the latest Fairphones, whether they are as glitchy as some report?
I have the FP6+, currently running iodeos and I'm very happy with it.
Fp6 user here. It was pretty buggy in the beginning but now everything seems fine (occassionaly something minor but could just be android).
Biggest disadvantage is a worse camera, battery power and compute power for the price, but it is all acceptable.
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They took your removable battery
So you'd have to buy a new phone instead of replacing it with a better battery off Amazon
They took your IR blaster
Not sure where this is or what it's supposed to do
They took your microsd slot
So you'd have to pay for cloud storage
They took your headphone jack
So you'd have to buy wireless headphones
They took your buttons
Because they think they know what you want better than you do
They cut a hole in your screen
Because bigger screens sell
They added 5 cameras you don't use
Because better cameras sell
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Just because they don't know what the cameras are for doesn't mean they don't use them
The cameras are for different light and motion conditions. It happens automatically
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I had idiots argue with me you can easily pop out and replace batteries. There's a reason why it's a big selling point on the Fairphone.
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I always wanted a phone with an IR blaster, especially after smartphones became a thing, so I could just use my phone as a universal remote for my TV and stereo.
I used to wrote mobile apps for a large cable company whose named rhymes with "bombast". At one point I got the gig writing their TV guide-type app for Blackberry. Nobody else at the entire company had any idea of how to do it since none of the built-in controls for Blackberry development (called "fields") could do anything like what was needed. I had a lot of experience with animation so I was able to do everything with custom-drawn graphics. I had a great time since I had zero interference from managers and I made the app do everything I always wanted a guide app to do. It could even change the channel for you on your own TV, not using IR (which Blackberrys did have) but sending the control signals through wifi to the Bombast servers. At one point, executives from RIM visited the office trying to convince large clients to continue developing apps for their platform; we showed them my app and they were blown away, saying "how is this even possible on a Blackberry?"
The punchline, of course, is that this was 2011 and Blackberry was plummeting rapidly to its doom. My guide was on the market for just a few months but nobody ever really downloaded Bombast apps (even for iPhone or Android -- their numbers were essentially faked for a bunch of reasons) so it died. I did continue using it myself for my own TV until Bombast sunsetted the API it used. That was a sad day for me.
It is insane to me that today, in 2026, the channel guide on my parents' cable box is so much fucking worse -- and slower -- of an experience than an app I wrote 15 years ago for mobile devices that were almost 10 years old themselves at that time.
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I've been dipping my toes into entry-level audiophile stuff, and I know the 4.4 mm jack is unnecessary for most use cases, but still I think a dap/phone combo with that built in and open bootloader for custom roms would be pretty neat.
Edit: and before anyone comments, yes I know my best bet in that direction right now would be to get an LG V20, put LineageOS on it, and use a dongle. I have a dongle. Just saying, a thing with it built in would be fun.
Also, what can I do with all these lenses in cameras now?
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Don't need a phone if you never leave your house.
Galaxy brain
But how are you going to rot in bed then?
The old fashioned way, I'll cry and wank
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My phone has an ir blaster, but the software is awful so I'm not going to call it out as a success here. It is a flagship, though.
Can't the Fairphone do some of these things still?
The new 6 has everything but aux. That one I do miss like once a year where I randomly need to interface with something, for home stuff I bought two adapters and got no problem.