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Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017
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Somebody pls come along and make a phone with headphone jack, micro sd slot, and fingerprint sensor.
That's just a Thinkpad. If they keep making them smaller eventually it will fit in your pocket.
If you make it all, and in a small frame, I'm buying right away.
I bought this a few days ago and it arrives next week: https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_10_iv-11522.php.
It's not iPhone or Zenfone small and it's only midrange spec but it's pretty compact. Plus SD card slot, 3.5mm jack...
Its a bit funny how I find that model to be too big. People like me have definitely been abandoned from the market.
But thanks for the recommendation. I ended up grabbing an older model that still works as a low end phone, but I wonder for how long I will be able to use older phones...
It's definitely larger than I'd like but damned if the manufacturers haven't heard our demands and realised that, once again, compactness is a premium feature. You can get an itty bitty iPhone or S23 but fuck all in the mid range. Thanks again, The Market!
Fairphone?
I thought the newest one ditched the headphone jack?
Yo, if they ditched the headphone jack, that's wack.
They had to, I'm guessing. At this point nobody is manufacturing headphone jack hardware for smartphones.
I'm pretty sure that DACs and 3.5mm jacks are still being manufactured
Then it's likely cheaper to make a bluetooth headphones phone than include a 3.5mm jack? Or they could just be greedy, although I would hope FairPhone won't turn to the dark side so soon.
Excuse me, this is meant to be an admin account for c/OpenTTD@lemmy.zip so I'll have to return to whence I came.
I'm thinking Fairphone saw the trend and decided to make a profit. I don't see how removing headphone jacks is beneficial for the consumer.
You're probably right, there are reasons stopping them, it's not necessarily a conspiracy of phone makers.
Just got the notification for a post you made 10 minutes after mine...
It did? Sad to see even fairphone did it
They already got rid of it with their previous model years ago.
Every non-Samsung and non-iphone.