Our poll results show that only a minority of you want the thinner phones that Apple and Samsung are promising.
I don’t fucking care of having an even slimmer addictive machine in my pockets. Give me a phone that weights 400g but that has a fucking replaceable battery (that lasts 2/3 days), a good OS, doesn’t track me and I can set up as I want.
I like my fat Pixel 9. The edges are satisfyingly grippy!
I use 2 phones. Far better than foldables, can upgrade independently.
I absolutely would want the lightest/thinnest phone possible that is god enough for phone calls/texting, and then my other phone is gaming, and mostly home phone stuff.
I just got a new phone on Friday. There were like 50 kinds, various sizes and thicknesses, foldable, not foldable. The one I got is pretty slim but I’m guessing if people want thick phones someone will keep selling them.
Also. Stop doing fucking sloped edge screens…
Yup just what I want: giant, wafer thin, easily cracked garbage phones that cost $1600. /S
I’ve seen the light and I’m not going back. From now on I don’t care how chunky the phone is, I don’t want it to not fit in my pocket due to its stupid phablet dimensions.
Iphone 6 “Bend-Gate” 2: Electric Boogaloo
My phone is already slim. Most of it is a quarter inch thick. It makes it hard to hold already.
I want something between ‘feature phones’ and smartphones. A little bit like what Nokia had to offer with Symbian and Maemo but more modern. If you want a rectangle of glass that requires wireless proprietary everything and replacing every time the battery starts packing up, more power to you, I’m a fan of choice and options.
But I want to be able to buy a music phone with great speakers and toys like FM transmitters thrown in. Or a gaming phone with a d-pad, a, b, x, y and shoulder buttons. But like, with Firefox instead of Opera Mini. And social media apps and shit.
The E63 was the peak.
I don’t need a paper thin phone. I need a phone with a battery that lasts all day when actively using my phone non-stop with everything on and the screen at maximum brightness.
I would also like a phone that doesn’t fall out of my hand because there’s not enough of it to actually hold on to, and what there is is polished completely smooth.
and (I’d like to add) the ability to change said battery when it, inevitably dies, and the I also want a minimum of 6 years of security update.
Also, I absolutely do not need the newest shiniest hardware. I want something that can handle WhatsApp/Signal encryption. YouTube playback would be nice, doesn’t need to be 1080, 720p is absolutely enough on a phone. And frigging security updates for more than a few years. Can we please figure this shit out.
Apparently the Galaxy A16 5G gets 6 years of updates.
So do some of the pixel series phones, and those you can install a privacy respecting OS (GrapheneOS or CalyxOS, for example).
Yeah pixels are great in that regard. But they are flagship phones with latest and greatest hardware costing a ton of money.
New, yes. But used, they can cost about the same as the Galaxy A series.
Agreed. Make the phones ⅛ in - ¼ (3.18mm - 6.35mm) thicker and use all the extra space for a bigger battery! Virtually everyone throws a case on their phone anyways, so it’s not going to be a very noticeable size difference anyways.
I want a small screen (about 5"), headphone jack, and unlockable bootloader. That’s all.
SD Card also. dont forget the SD Card.
Hotswappable batteries and an option for a keyboard would be nice too. Virtual keyboards seem like they’re getting shittier (at least on Android) and they never matched the accuracy of a regular keyboard.
I agree with you but also have you tried Heliboard, FlorisBoard, or FUTOKeyboard, Theyre all very decent FOSS* keyboard projects. I like HeliBoard myself.
*FUTOKb is Source available
I use Heliboard myself and can second that recommend.
I just started using FUTO and it seems pretty solid
Florisboard is pretty great
I have not. Thanks for the suggestions!
And removable battery. This will be coming for EU soon, hoping for the rest of us too.
Absolutely bonkers that a company can claim to be environmentally friendly despite their phones being practically disposable once the battery gets under 70% health.
For my own use, I don’t care much, but I agree in theory. My 128gb Pixel 4A has 32gb free and I do not actively manage space on it. Android’s handling of SD cards is kind of terrible, making them mostly useful for media files. If I did much photography or videography with my phone, I’d want this more.
And a material you can actually grip. Pixel 9 be slippery af
Almost all the modern flagships have this garbage glass panel on the back that’s slippery and can break when dropped. I just don’t get it.
I bought the dbrand grip for the last 3 phones I’ve had, and it’s always been a great choice for me, highly recommend; but I shouldn’t have to spend $60 and increase the thickness of the phone by nealy 20% just to be able to hold on to the damn thing.
Yeah it became luxury products so basically fragile and not daily-use friendly
Replaceable screen and battery. Actually being able to drop in a new radio would be nice too. I only gave up my op7t because no 5g.
What benefits are you seeing from 5g? It’s obviously faster, but I rarely find myself bandwidth constrained on my phone.
Let’s see, decreased durability, decreased battery life…what are the advantages again?
That being said AA should (and probably does) know better. Their audience is not representative of the typical consumer.
I want a phone that stops falling out of my hands man…
True. Everytime I get a new phone I go through around 6 different cases trying to find one that’s somewhat comfortable to hold.
This here! 🤣 😅 😆
Not very impressive when you also make it longer and wider. You’re just pancaking the phones.
Were in desperate need of a small thick, emovable battery / sdcard pocket rocket.
My Oneplus 6, Oneplus 9, and Pixel 8 Pro are all around the same size. The best one from feel alone is the OP6 because it feels solid and it’s a bit heavier. Lighter and thinner are way less interesting to me compared to the possibility of 3 day battery life, a headphone jack, or modular construction.
True. I want a bulky ass phone with more power, more storage, more battery life, and more accessory compatibility. I want a BRICK
