Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones?

• nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  my Chinese tiny phone has a name, it’s the Unihertz Jelly Star. they even have a subreddit, not sure what makes you think it’s a “no name” they make a lot of phones for niches in today’s world including one with a physical qwerty keyboard.

  now the fact that they’re the only company filling those niches sucks, but it’s better than nobody doing it.

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  • kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, how’s it supported? This is usually what kills these phones. Even brand like Xiaomi dump their non-flagship model really soon. I have one, bought as a new model, was officially supported for like a year. Great.

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    • nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m not really sure. what happened when it was no longer officially supported?

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      • kurcatovium@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It just stopped receiving updates, even security ones.

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  • RecallMadness@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But can it run a degoogled Android rom well?

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    • nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      not sure. stacking niches means there’s a good chance the answer is no though.

      if it’s just a matter of specs it should be up to it, the hardware is pretty beefy for a phone, but I figure there’s more to it than that.

      personally I don’t have the spoons to pour in the effort required to degoogle. the fact that the algs and few ads I see are completely irrelevant to me suggest that I have thoroughly confused them by how non-standard my internet usage is. I’m not overly concerned about the data they do get or what they do with it.

      there are enough Man-Made Horrors Beyond My Comprehension™️ keeping me up at night but you do you

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      • ilmagico@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The old jelly pro had a decent modding community, and I definitely was able to unlock the bootloader and root it, though not sure about degoogling.

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Seems to not be supported by Lineage… I wonder if a more privacy-preserving OS can be installed at all? I don’t teust stock ones.

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• TheRealKuni@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There was the iPhone 13 Mini. It’s adorably small. But it didn’t sell well so they stopped making the Mini line.

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  • bluesheep@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve got a 12 mini and bought it just because it was small. Had nothing else from the apple ecosystem (altho I did but airpods with the phone cause it had no 3.5mm jack), and still bought it just because it was small. People like to point out and laugh at how tiny the phone is, but I don’t care cause at least I don’t have to carry around half a tablet everyday. Sad to hear they discontinued the mini line, even tho I wasn’t planning on buying apple again.

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    • TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’ll use my 13 mini until I literally can’t anymore. Sadly it seems like maybe Apple will release a clamshell to get back to the pocketable size but never a mini phone again. Wish the 16e used a mini chasis

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• MellowYellow13@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Still using mine too and it’s awesome, all my coworkers also notice and compliment it.

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