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Comment on Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans

Personally, I would like to see miniaturization become the the trend again.

I haven’t been interested in a new release since phablets became the standard. I don’t need my phone to replace my PC. It just needs to be able to run a web-search in a pinch.

I was really hoping the Apple Watch was going to be the next leap forward, but they were very careful about making sure most people didn’t replace their phones with them.

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SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Interesting. Personally I was planning to buy a phablet for my next phone but they’ve gone out of style it seems and been replaced with folding phones.

I would be interesting to see something with a rolled up slide out display like the Global communicator from Earth: Final Conflict, basically a slim stick of a phone with a larger display rolled up inside that can be pulled out as much as necessary for the desired screen size.

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- Nahvi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sci-fi phones are the best. I like the slide ones alright, but I was always a huge fan of the mid-air projections. Seems like we are decent way off from either right now.
  
  Also, I keep hoping we get a short term pair of glasses or ultra light weight VR/AR goggles before we figure out projection anywhere tech.
  
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  - SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Very cool idea. Yeah real holographic projection is still a ways off, especially from a portable emitter. AR however is much closer. There’s an increasing focus on AR tech and making it smaller and cheaper- I saw a glasses the other day for $400 that projects a real 1080p screen onto your field of view and can talk to a phone. That stuff will only get better. The key is making it lightweight, have a long battery life, and fashionable. You also need some kind of separate input device, if you assume the phone remains in the pocket as a compute module. Or for those willing to accept a larger watch, perhaps the watch becomes the phone rather than an accessory to one. There’s of course issues of size, weight, battery life, etc; but as tech improves those will get better. And in theory, the main reason you don’t have the watch as the main phone is lack of screen size; if an external AR display was common that problem goes away.
    
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    Nahvi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    perhaps the watch becomes the phone rather than an accessory to one.
    
    I was hoping for something like this when the Apple Watch came out, but they were clearly very against the idea.
    
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