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I think the phone industry is trying very hard to look interesting but it's been a while since anybody cared? Or is it really just me?
It's more jjust a lackof reporting. If Apple came out with something new people would lose their minds. But if some no name Chinese company does it, no one cares.
What kind of innovation do you have in mind?
It's now just pure hype and keeping up with the Joneses.
I feel the same. I think they got to a point where there's nothing else left to improve, no interesting features to add.
The only feature I am really looking forward to is the return of removable batteries.
Phones are like 💻 now. The year-to-year improvements are tiny. Some factors related to this –
At least for folks like me who sometimes read re chips, chip improvements are 👍. But big year-to-year improvements are probably hard. If it was easy, Apple or Qualcomm may have already made a chip that was 2 or 3 times faster than the old 1.
So hard to have a clean implementation of under-screen cam and face recognition sensors. Hence, hole punch. Samsung fold has an under-screen front cam but the implemention wasn't clean and the pic quality is below average.
So hard to make a 🔋 that's 2 or 3 times better than the old 🔋. The tech world has been so hungry for a 🔋 innovation for a long time. There was optimism re graphene. Idk if it'll succeed in mass production.
Answering from my Fairphone 3 & its brand new battery 😎
The improvement on cameras is nice though, but I think it's been nice enough for anyone for a while and people are just comparing color balance now.
Unfortunately, Fairphone is not available in my country. I'd buy it in a heartbeat if it was :(
I just looked. Do they not ship to the U.S.?