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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While we’re at it, let’s get back to all metal phones! Screw this glass back shit.

  For the “Wireless” charging people:

  It’s a gimmick, nothing of value is lost

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wireless charging rocks, dude

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True wireless charging would definitely, the kind where your phone being in the mere vicinity of the “base station” allows it to start charging. From an actual distance larger than a handful of centimeters. That would be a feature worthy of the sacrifice of a metal body and being stuck with glass

      The “Wireless” charging marketing gimmick is just as bad as the “Hoverboard” gimmick vs a real Hoverboard a la Back to the Future.

      Its basically just a plug shifted from a socket to the back of the phone. It’s almost always slower and saves a second or 2 at most from having to plug/unplug it. Some minor pros, but not worth having to be saddled with annoying and fragile glass backs.

      It’s a gimmick so companies could say their phones totally have wireless charging so they didn’t have to spend the R&D money to develop actual wireless charging and you bought into it hook, line and sinker.

      There were some promising developments on real wireless charging, but ever since the fake gimmick caught hold it’s been awfully quiet. Another victim of marketing I suppose.

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      • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What a weird think to insult someone over. It does what it says it does and I don’t get why you’re drawing the line on what “true” wireless charging is when I’m not plugging a wire into my phone. You think I “fell for a marketing gimmick” despite using the feature almost exclusively for the past 12 years? How is it a gimmick if I get value out of it?

        I like having a clean desk and not accidentally yoinking my phone off. I like not adding wear and tear to the USB port because it sucks when they break. I like that I’ve had a dozen or USB cords for but never once had to toss a wireless charger.

        You aren’t the arbiter of what’s useful. You not finding value in wireless charging doesn’t mean it’s a useless gimmick. Get off damn your high horse

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I use a magsafe charger in both the vehicles I drive on a regular basis, and a charging mat at home, both are extremely useful.

        You’re talking absolute nonsense.

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “All right team this is the single most dropped item in the history of mankind we need to make this thing tough what are we gonna manufacture the backing out of?”

    “Glass?”

    “…….Brilliant!! You’ve got upper management written all over you, Jacobs!”

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  • pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know it’s counter to what the thread is saying but I really miss plastic phones. They allowed for wireless charging and don’t shatter so easily. Lumias had amazing designs and were built like a brick.

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