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[–] [email protected] 176 points 7 months ago (32 children)

This is an April Fools, right?

No way a fancy top end smartphone in 2024 doesn't have this extremely basic feature from over a decade ago that everything has....

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Are they letting you guys keep your screens on yet? Or is that something that's being saved for 19? Probably not a big deal for most, but an always on display for time, calendar, and alerts without having to do anything to active my phone is clutch for me. When I see other peoples phones with blank black screens they look so dead.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They have actually introduced AOD, but only from the iPhone 15.

Their reasoning for not backporting the feature (unless phone is charging) is that the older models don't have LTPO displays that go down to the 1hz they do in AOD on the 15. A stupid reason imo.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 7 months ago (22 children)

RIP in peace Windows Phone 10. Still the best home screen setup ever.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Say what you will about Microsoft, lemmys, but Windows Phone 10 had great performance and battery life. It's a shame that it was nuked because MS couldn't bring themselves to go all the way on the Android bridge.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They also messed up Nokia before killing Windows Phone. Nokia's Symbian used to be a serious competition to android.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Symbian was a fantastic OS, but it never competed with Android in any meaningful way. Nokia was already circling the drain when Microsoft bought them and first Windows phones (Lumias) were fucking awesome. And then fucking moron Nadella killed Windows Phone.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nokia's Symbian was shit and you're the only person I've ever heard saying anything positive about it. To be a serious competitor to Android or IOS you need to have as much apps on the store and Symbian had very few.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Apple fan boi here.

I also love to shit on Apple.

Some of the big reveals are so dumb. They just give things a different name to blow your mind.

“Omg! They invited spatial computing!!!”

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Believe it or not: Straight to jailbreak.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There is a tweak, which I don't recall even having on Android, that lets you select tons of apps and move them around, you know, like you could in a desktop environment... I wonder how much time will take to have that.

(Probably some 3rd party launchers or Android skins allow this, but I can't do it with Pixel Launcher).

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Well this is good news. I never owned an Apple product until my recent purchase of an iPad Mini.

I was nervous about switching from an Android tablet, but everything went great until I tried to move my home screen icons where I wanted them, and resize a weather widget the way I wanted it. Neither worked, and I had to laugh at how ridiculous it was.

I'm very much looking forward to version 18 now.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (7 children)

...I thought we all just stopped having apps the Home Screen when we could put them in the library and unclutter everything.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's what I do. My home screen only has the time and weather on it. The next two screens have folders.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, I thought I was nuts for a minute.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

I mean you still could be. I'm not a professional.

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