• weedazz@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The 90s kid in me yearns for a phone with Fm radio, headphone jack, IR blaster, stylus, memory card slot, slide out keyboard and one of those click on projectors the Motorola phones used to have. I would call it the Donatello and it would be radical.

  • Tygr@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No thanks. I listened to radio the other day (not in my car) and it was all ads and a shortened version of a song so they can do more ads.

    I didn’t realize radio got so bad.

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    1 year ago

    In 2017, Mexico passed regulation that required all smartphones with FM chips to enable them

    Now I’ve got in my head “I’m on a Mexican, radio…”

  • HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’ve come to the realization that the phone I want is a Nokia 3310 “brick”.

    • Infinite battery life
    • compact size
    • headphone jack
    • indestructible
    • no spyware
    • no social media
    • T9 texting
    • no software updates
    • Snake
    • Brick Breaker
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      1 year ago

      Some of these I get, but I don’t get the T9 thing. T9 was so bad! It took ages to type many words. Today’s predictive keyboards are miles better.

      Also, no software updates? Sure, every now and then there’s a shitty update, but most updates are great. New features and especially bug fixes are amazing. Used to be that if something had a bug, you just had to deal with it. There’s no guarantees it’ll be fixed today, but many companies do fix their bugs at least eventually. The ability to iteratively develop is huge for software quality. These days, unless you’re developing something that absolutely cannot fail (like a mars prober or radiation therapy machine), it’s widely agreed upon that iterative design is superior to “waterfall” design of trying to plan it out all ahead of time. Part of why is so you can get feedback continuously instead of only after you’ve committed to months of tech debt.

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        1 year ago

        When T9 was all we had, we got real good at it.

        No software updates mean they have to get it right the first time, which they always seemed to manage.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    My phone has an FM radio.

    I’ve listened to it in long international flights just to see how things change.

    other than that it serves no purpose whatsoever.

    I suppose it could be useful in an emergency but I’d bet just having cell seryqould fair better.