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Camera is probably the first obstacle. I’ve got a kid, and I really want to have good documentation of her growing up. If there were a dumbphone with a legit camera, that’d be a big deal for me.

After that, probably maps is the next most important thing that I want an actual smart phone for. I remember getting my first smart phone, and probably the main thing I was excited about was always being able to navigate directly to where I wanted to go.

Almost everything else is tertiary to my needs.

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atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I highly recommend just getting a real camera. The pictures I took with my camera 11 years ago are still better quality than an iPhone can manage today. Modern cameras are far far better.

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- GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  But then I start to feel like
  
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  this guy, with the “real” camera and the phone camera, but the phone camera is the one I’ve most consistently got on me, because I can’t lug a whole additional piece of hardware around in a camera bag, meanwhile the phone camera pictures are grainy and shitty, and I’d just as soon have a Pixel in my pocket at all times that can take fairly good pictures at all times.
  
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  - atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Fair enough, though modern cameras are much smaller:
    
    Dimensions of a recent Sony mirrorless camera, shown without lens.
    
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    JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Without the lens, exactly.
    Realistically, cameras can be put into two categories - they either effortlessly fit in your pocket, or don’t, and any that don’t tend to get left home unless you intend to specifically go take photos.
    
    And if you have a high end smartphone, you probably can’t get a camera that fits in your pocket that would be significantly better.
    
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    kazzz7420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    this won’t fit into a pocket though.
    
    maybe you can reasonably throw a handbag. but it quickly became a logistical nightmare, with how you’re essentially stuck with cheap kit lens and humidity is also a deal breaker.
    
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