Nearly 500 Brands Exited Smartphone Market During 2017-2023

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• Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Honestly miss LG and their weird gimmicks. They were kinda refreshing

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  • HidingCat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yea, they'd be the last holdouts for a headphone jack too, I'm sure.

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  • JCreazy@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve always wanted to play around with an LG Wing.

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• simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  99% of phones are extremely similar, I don’t think anybody needed that many brands. Even now it sort of boils down to Apple vs Samsung vs Chinese brands for most people.

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• foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s almost like wealth is consolidating.

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• Eonandahalf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There were more than 500 brands of smartphones? 🙃

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• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I miss HTC. To this day, I’ve not heard a better speaker than the HTC One M8.

  Everywhere I went people who heard me play music on it were amazed that a mobile phone could sound as good as a proper iPod dock/Bluetooth speaker.

  Phone speakers since then have regressed, it sucks :-(

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  • PlatinumSf@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    …? My iPhone speaker blows my old m8 speaker out of the water by a long shot. This might just be nostalgia or your current pocket pal might just have a trash speaker.

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• macallik@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think part of the reason is that because phones are now in the 'matured' part of the marketing cycle. There's a smaller and smaller noticeable difference in performance between a $200 phone and a $1000 phone, and so companies need to compete on smaller and smaller profit margins, and against very inexpensive import brands.

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