For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up
Buttons.
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IR blaster.
Ad-Hoc wireless networking. I miss it, was useful back in the day if you needed to share files with multiple people without a wireless router at a location. Most laptops don't support this anymore. To be fair, I've only really wanted to use it maybe twice in the last 10 years.
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I miss tether points. We have these super expensive, slippery devices and we have to stick something like a pop socket onto them to be able to get a good grip on them. I used to have these little dangly thumb loops that if I dropped my phone, it would just dangle there instead of slamming into the ground. It's very minor, but I don't understand why they don't have them anymore.
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ITT are many middle aged nerds
~~ITT~~ On this platform are many middle aged nerds
We must keep the stories of the old ways alive. Help the younglings to remember what was lost.
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Replaceable battery, micro SD card slots are hard to come by these days, too.
What happened to the notification light?
My Orbic Myra 5G has one, and I got it for free.
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My phone is 4 years old and this sounds like a horror story to me. I have no idea what I'm going to do next.
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Durability, battery life, repairability.
I want a IR blaster again and a front notification light.
Or at least let me easily simulate the notification light without a third part app.
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I still require all my phones to have a SD card slot since the higher capacity versions are way more expensive than even a UHS card.
Yes it's getting harder to find newer phones that have it above entry level models.
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Physical buttons.
Aren't notification LEDs somewhat obsolete now that we have always on displays? One advantage could be that they are less power hungry than keeping the screen / touch panel alive all the time. But in theory one could just create a permanent "notification LED" with an always on display, then it's the same thing from a user's perspective.
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That crackling sound you had on your calls back in the analogic era. Not sure is a feature but made calls more warm.
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