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Glaurung: When Apple upgraded the camera on the 6S to include optical stabilization, that meant a bigger camera, which meant the jigsaw had to be redone. And many manufacturers / retailers understand...
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howard: It’s not obvious to me why people are so in love with cords. They sound better than individual music notes? Oh, not chords? Read full topic
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To get stock Android. Samsung phones run Android in name only, they pile so much extra garbage onto their phones, even their flagships, that they’re practically useless to me. The only time I liked a...
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nungesser: though consumers keep saying that they want their phones Bigger, Thinner, and Lighter for reasons I do not understand I guess it’s my turn to trot out the probably-apocryphal “if I had...
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To me part of the issue is the quest for the ultimate thin phone. This makes things infinitely more complicated to manufacture phones, guess why removable batteries were phased out? Thinner phones....
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This is a computer port discussion, folks, lets try and keep the tempers moderated appropriately. Won’t stop me telling my grandkids about how I used to moderate epic debates on computer peripheral...
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orenwolf: computer peripheral ports Its srsbsns Read full topic
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I’ve already written a lengthy technical treatise on why analog headphone jacks are inherently better than Bluetooth, though it was probably months ago. The long and short of it is, Bluetooth has...
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orenwolf: Won’t stop me telling my grandkids about how I used to moderate epic debates on computer peripheral ports , mind you. Ah, the good ol’ days… Read full topic
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Glaurung: Don’t think of the phone as a shape of certain volume, think of it as a collection of parts of a certain size that you have to fit together inside a given volume, like a 3-d jigsaw puzzle....
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What is the risk exposure of the headphone jack compared to an active bluetooth stack? Read full topic
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57Lh7m5gq2f04iR: That, and, I never have to charge my headphones. So much this. Bluetooth can be good in short listening situations. But in the back of my head, I’m always giving a sliver of passive...
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anothernewbbaccount: Facts about things that I am not in the least concerned about, I totally understand that none of those things are meaningful to you. Frankly, since I use a chunky Otterbox case...
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alahmnat: Also stop calling the 3.5mm jack a “legacy port”. It’s old , but it’s not legacy . VGA is a legacy port. SCSI is a legacy port. The 3.5mm jack still has millions and millions of pieces of...
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nungesser: I’m just pointing out that making phones thinner, giving designers more internal space to work with, better audio capabilities, and better water/dirt resistance are good things for a whole...
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nungesser: super-thin bodies was causing serious bending issues Oh, come now, only blithering incompetents would build consumer electronics so thin that they’d bend… Right, Apple? Read full topic
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57Lh7m5gq2f04iR: To get stock Android. Samsung phones run Android in name only, There is now Android One, which is bloat free and similar to what you’d get on the pixel. Several manufacturers have...
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I’m in agreement, headphone jacks are a great thing. In fact I will go as far to say analog is superior to digital, simply because we interface with the world in analog terms. I think it is a fallacy...
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Neovison.vison: A lot of people here are arguing over whether Bluetooth or cabled headphones are better. But isn’t the point that the damn phone should have both, so we can use what works best for...
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bcsizemo: I’m in agreement, headphone jacks are a great thing. In fact I will go as far to say analog is superior to digital, simply because we interface with the world in analog terms. This is a...
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