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Why can't we go back to small phones? (www.spacebar.news)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Here's what I want, roughly in order of priority:

  1. long term OS support
  2. repairable
  3. privacy friendly
  4. small

I currently have a Pixel 8:

  1. 7 years software support, maybe more
  2. 6/10 on ifixit score; not great, but better than many
  3. supports GrapheneOS
  4. on the smaller end of "normal" today

A community-supported Linux phone would be awesome, since I'd get 1 and 3 by default and 2 by convention, but they don't meet my minimum needs from a phone: reliable basic feature support. Hopefully we get there by the time my Pixel dies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

And notably the pixel 8 is significantly smaller than the 7

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