They'll take away volume control (SW/HW buttons) and replace with dynamically adjusting "magic volume" so that you can't mute ads.
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Oh Christ. You've just triggered a premonition in me–the Galaxy S32 Ultra will be the first smartphone with no physical buttons or ports. You can turn it "off," but that will only turn on a sort of extreme power saving mode. It will still ping your location once every few minutes, and will keep the fingerprint scanner active. You will "turn on" the device by holding your finger on the fingerprint scanner for four seconds. They will advertise the "quick startup" as a new feature. Volume will be controlled by sliding your finger along the right edge of the phone, which the screen will wrap around all the way to the back. It will be impossible to hold the phone without touching some part of the screen.
It will only allow wireless charging. You will not be able to connect it directly to a computer. In marketing, this will be to meet rigorous water safety standards. In reality, this will be to prevent you from using ADB to remove apps that come with the phone. You cannot turn off mobile data. You cannot turn off location. You cannot use a third party SMS application. You cannot choose your own wallpaper. You cannot set a private DNS. You cannot install applications that haven't been approved by Samsung. You cannot block ads. This is all covered on page 74 of subsection 32(a) of section G8 of the terms and conditions that you agreed to when you set up the phone.
They will meet the physical limitations of how well a small lens can focus light. Zoom will cap out at 150x. Nevertheless, there will be seven cameras.
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When they actually introduce all these fantastic new features, we will know who to blame for the idea.
Next will be memory. They will say everything you meed should be stored online for a subscription fee.
Google keeps trying to back up my non existent photos. It's annoying.
Here's my take on what phone companies will do next: replaceable batteries are back! With an inkjet twist:
1- You have to buy them precharged
2- You can no longer recharge them
3- The phone will explode if it detects a 3rd party battery
Making them increasingly difficult to hold ("but design!" They cry) so you "accidently" have to buy a new one again.
I bought a Sony Xperia 1 V mostly because of this. No hole on the screen, it has a 3.5mm jack and tooless access to its SD/Sim card tray
Sony does a lot of things right, but I'm not spending €1200 on a phone that gets a measly 2 years of updates. With that hardware and that price tag there's no excuse for that bullshit.
80 cameras and nothing to do and no where to go
THEY TOOK MY SLIDE OUT QWERTY KEYBOARD!
For me it's the small size. They are so big now I can't fit them in my pocket or use them with one hand.
Physical keyboard? Notification LED?
Controversial: it was much easier and safer to text while driving with a physical keyboard. You could type with one hand, hold the steering wheel with the other, all while still looking at the road because you could feel where the buttons were.
I'd still prefer you didn't do that
They also gave us those things before they took them away.
Remember: you're beholden to the whims of capitalism until it's gone.
The manufacturer giveth and the manufacturer taketh away.
we need to make open source wireless communications infrastructure.
how?
idk the FCC is the major block as long as it's funded by telecom
HAM radio have been around for decades.
They removed 3 ways water could get inside the phone
They made it a thin piece of glass that slips out of your hand.
still better than plastic
Subscription to the camera on your own phone, capped # of photos per week and only basic adjustment/editing features for the entry tier.
Google is already doing this with their photo editor app. All the new features require a subscription.
Who doesn't use all the cameras on their phone? Is there like a specific focal length you never use? Or are you unaware that zooming in the camera app switches lenses?
I rarely use the camera at all.
Then buy a smartphone that doesn't prioritize the camera
Name one
One must recognize that if those changes were truly not popular they would not have stuck.
Not necessarily true. Sometimes a corporation is willing to continue with a bad choice in order to achieve some strange goal. Just look at Facebook absolutely going all in on Meta or Disney going ham on strange starwars choices.