Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017

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• randomaccount43543@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There were 500 smartphone brand to begin with?

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  • shashi154263@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably small brands. There are lots of them. They mostly import from China with just their company name printed on them.

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  • Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would have never guessed it was that high. I would have said maybe 50-100 brands.

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• madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because they all follow Apple / Samsung shittery, while being shitter versions of said shittines.

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• ik5pvx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I miss HTC

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  • suodrazah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They still exist…?

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    • Pissnpink@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just went to their website and it’s looks very very cheesy. It does not look like a major company or even a serious one tbh. Sad because the One M8 was probably the best phone I’d ever owned.

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  • ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • nathris@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Google didn’t buy HTC. They bought the parts of the company responsible for making the first Pixel phone.

      HTC is still a separate entity. They just don’t release 25 phones/year now, and all of their stuff is mid-range garbage.

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• MyFairJulia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wish LG was still on the market. I would have loved to buy the LG Velvet plus the second screen case. However no carrier offered the phone with a contract.

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  • flossdaily@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The LG V20 was the just great flagship phone that had a removable battery. I miss those.

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    • JokklMaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mine was a piece of junk. It would crash whenever I tried to open snapchat. Super slow in general. Completely stopped working after like a year and had to be replaced.

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    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      All the v line phones were at least still pretty easy to replace the battery on with minimal effort, even if they weren’t quick access. The problem became finding new oem batteries.

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  • dmalteseknight@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have the LG wing and it’s great. I am going to really miss it when I have to do the inevitable change…

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    • MyFairJulia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I had the LG G3, which was the first phone with a 2K display. It was also my first android phone that had a lot of power.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I dislike that such an enclosed and anti consumer company like apple has completely taken over the cell phone market in the US, and I also hate that it’s left me with almost no viable high end android devices besides Samsung. Can’t even have a damned micro sd card slot anymore and curves glass edges on phones are stupid and pointless. I’ve heard they’re at least getting rid of that, finally.

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