Personally speaking, requirements for a phone now include a high resolution camera, NFC payments, some sort of screen mirroring for cars.
I had to revert from gOS because two of those were not working.
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muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 days agoSome of next years linux phones look quite compelling. Lora radios and powerful enough to pull off what canonical and Microsoft failed to do years ago.
If they succeed, it will be absolutely devastating to an industry that absolutely deserves to be slapped around. One device that transforms to full multiple demands beaded on what you plug it into. It’s the continuum concept without Microsoft tripping over its own dick.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
greybeard@feddit.online 2 days ago
NFC payments are nice, but honestly I could use a case with a credit card shoved in it to get the same effect. A good camera is important, but the “screen mirroring” of Android Auto and Apple Car Play are hard to go without.
Especially since most modern cars don’t allow you to replace the stereo. I’ve got a double-din, I could mount a tablet or raspberry pi, setup some sort of a system to automatically turn on hotspot on bluetooth connect, sync my podcasts between phone and car, and I’d have something about 80% of the way there and about 90% more janky.
Bitswap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Can you link to some of the Linux phones you are talking about. My next phone will be a linux phone and it’s 9+ months out.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
I don’t remember. There were 2 I recently saw, one with interchangeable gable bottom face plates and the other…I don’t remember. I don’t save them anymore since half of these damn things never materialize but there’s so much effort in that space now and literally the entire world fucking hates the techbros now so it’s going to happen.