A keyboard.
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Yes, that one right there in the picture.
My HTC ChaCha had a full qwerty keyboard. Now I'm lucky if the on-screen one bothers to show up in some apps.
mass storage mode
I had a Google pixel 3a which had squeeze sensors, with lineageOS I had it assigned to my flashlight which was super handy. Also I enjoyed the heart-rate sensor on my GS5. Also really liked the DAC in my LGV20.
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Wish it was ranked choice voting. For me the list is: removable battery, expandable storage, ir blaster, headphone jack. I think repairablity is the most important and i never use the headphone jack but do use ir sometimes so thats the only reason its last. On phones with oled screens notification light is a software feature and fm requires the headphone jack.
Animated and spanning backgrounds.
My Motorola Moto Z had a shake shake flashlight feature. Not sure if this was Android or Motorola but it was very useful.
Itβs a Motorola gesture. I donβt have a Motorola anymore, but I think shaking is the best gesture for turning on the flashlight.
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Software festure, but I miss being able to turn on and off wifi and Bluetooth in the drop-down menu with one click. Latest android replaced it with another sub menu to select network or device, requiring another action to enable/disable.
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Notification led that is separate from the display. Custom per-app colour and blink pattern.
I bought a modern off brand with an audio jack and micro SD, because why would I spend 3 times more for less features?
Removable battery is #1. My old Galaxy S3 (not even my first phone-yes I'm old) has absolutely godawful battery life but I had I think 4 total batteries around to make sure I could always have it even on a heavy use day. That sucked, but at least it was doable with a really easy process (peel off plastic back, pull out and swap battery, snap the backplate back on).
I keep an old phone around and sometimes use it to play like a video for my cats to watch if they're laying on my bed when I'm not in there. But it has to stay plugged in because it loses the first 20% in about 15 minutes.
And that phone in particular (a pixel 2) is particularly a pain to replace the battery in the first place.
Screens without holes in them.
I'm a Xperia weirdo because the one I have still rocks a 3.5mm jack, expandable storage and a camera outside the screen. Not only are some of those gone from this year's equivalent, but it is 1500 bucks now, which is absurd. I went to a phone search engine and looked up that exact feature set and it turns out there are exactly zero phones that include those now.
I genuinely don't understand why people think the way to compete with Samsung is doing a worse version of their exact product. It's so dumb. Or maybe it's true and it's the people who are dumb. Because everybody says these things, but people seem to buy candybars with puncholes and no physical headphne support or expandable storage or IR blasters.
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