'I Want An iPhone Mini-Sized Android Phone!' (smallandroidphone.com) 167
Eric Migicovsky, founder of smartwatch company Pebble and lover of small Android phones, decided to take matters into his own hands and "rally other fans of small phones together" to put pressure on phone manufacturers to consider making a small Android phone -- complete with all the premium features one could expect to find in a larger device. Essentially, what he wants is an iPhone Mini-sized phone running Android. Is that too much to ask?
Here's an excerpt from his manifesto (via smallandroidphone.com): My Dream Small Android phone Optimizes for only 3 things:
- Sub 6" display, matching size and design of iPhone 13 Mini
- Great cameras
- Stock Android OS
If you can hit these three bullets, you've built the perfect phone. Currently there are ZERO premium Android phones with less than 6" displays. No amount of money can buy one right now. Focus on these three bullets, all other specs are flexible.
Price: $700-800 (again, we have no alternatives so we should be willing to pay a bit more!) In a call-to-action, Migicovsky asks readers who agree with him to sign up on this page to help "convince a manufacturer to build us our dream phone." He adds: "If no one else makes one I guess I will be forced to make it myself, but I really really don't want it to come to that!"
Here's an excerpt from his manifesto (via smallandroidphone.com): My Dream Small Android phone Optimizes for only 3 things:
- Sub 6" display, matching size and design of iPhone 13 Mini
- Great cameras
- Stock Android OS
If you can hit these three bullets, you've built the perfect phone. Currently there are ZERO premium Android phones with less than 6" displays. No amount of money can buy one right now. Focus on these three bullets, all other specs are flexible.
Price: $700-800 (again, we have no alternatives so we should be willing to pay a bit more!) In a call-to-action, Migicovsky asks readers who agree with him to sign up on this page to help "convince a manufacturer to build us our dream phone." He adds: "If no one else makes one I guess I will be forced to make it myself, but I really really don't want it to come to that!"
Samsung Galaxy S YP-GS1 (Score:3)
Its ancient tech, and didn't even have cellular but its probably about the right size/form factor. Just build one using the current technology and everything should fit inside. I still have one of these but it probably has not had a software update in 15 years. With enough customers I'm sure Samsung could do it again.
https://usermanual.wiki/Samsun... [usermanual.wiki]
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Why are you using some old Samsung iPod wannabe from over a decade ago as an example device, when the Sony Xperia Compact phones are actually cited by the author in his own "manifesto" and are only 4 years past?
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Re:Has he considered looking? (Score:4, Informative)
Android really is crap these days isn't it?
My phone always does what I want it to do, 24/7/365. As a pocket sized computer it is super reliable.
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So you're an iPhone user?
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I have a high-low-end ;) Moto phone (Moto G Power 2021) and the camera is pretty mediocre. It's fine for well-lit snapshots and the macro is decent, otherwise it's not great. It's also huge so it isn't what he's talking about, but I'm just talking about the cam.
On the other hand it was very affordable even with a breakage plan.
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What are you talking about? Motorola hasn't released a smartphone in the last two years that has less width than 70 mm.
(according to a search in a model database [gsmarena.com])
That is what this is about: width. So that people with smaller hands can hold it comfortably and securely.
People with smaller hands, such as children and women.
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He lists these reasons for wanting a smaller phone:
1. fits nicely in pocket
2. are much lighter
3. are easy to use one-handed without dropping
4. won't fall out of my pocket while bicycling
1 and 4 are the same thing, solution is to wear more functional clothes with decent pockets that stuff doesn't fall out of. 2 is nonsense, we are talking such a small difference most people would be hard pushed to notice. 3 is partly down to how good the phone's software is, e.g. the Pixel 5 is easy to use one handed.
He also
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Using one handed is a function of your hand size. Unless you have a magical way for large sections of the adult population to increase their hand size (you don't) then you are an ignorant twit.
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I guess you have never tried the one handed mode accessibility options. You can do things like make the keyboard smaller and offset to one side, and use gestures to pull down the notification shade without having to reach all the way to the top of the screen.
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Small phones aren't automatically lighter. My old iPhone SE (original SE, not the new ones) wasn't especially light because Apple gave it a bigger battery instead. And a big long-lasting batter is a useful feature in a phone, so #2 can be very useful if done right.
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solution is to wear more functional clothes with decent pockets that stuff doesn't fall out of. /.
Obviously. Reminds me to the advertizement I saw on youtube and
"Tactical pant" - some kind of pant (trouser) made from a kind of "plastic" with velcro closed pockets.
Wearing such pants is an absolute must in business meetings. Were I do business, we usually have a "tactical flash light" as well, and wear bullet proof wests.
Oh ... it was about small and hand fitting long battery life lasting phones? Not about cl
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Uniqlo. Clothes for all occasions, big pockets.
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https://www.google.com/search?... [google.com]
Best pair of pants ever made.
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You can put all sorts of other useful stuff in the pockets too.
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what we, the users, actually want
Don't speak for others. What you want is not the same as what other people want. You can tell that by the sales. Devices that you mention exist, and don't sell well. Ask yourself why that is, and in the future I suggest you take your own advice and "consider looking".
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Score: -1, Troll
You don't list your model. Others below you say Moto hasn't put out the spec you describe in a while. As a former moto owner, the camera sucks. I bet your phone doesn't have 90hz. All you can do is curse and literally claim the world is worse because some person wants a smaller, high quality Android. What a completely dumb take. On brand for /. trolling.
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You aren’t wrong. The new iPhone SE had the same processor as the 12 and cost $350. It stomped on $1200 Android flagship models for a while.
Kodak D60LX (Score:3)
The physical camera in a modern phone is junk, but still requires space, both for lens and sensor. Also it requires enough computing power to process the junk image into what the user expects which also requires a matched battery and heat dissipation
In iPhone 13 mini is actually less that 6 inches. Who knows the engineering trade offs to get down to that size. Many consumers do want a small phone, but stuff needs to be it that consumers also want.
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There clearly is however a market for a decent specified compact phone. However Sony's marketing was rubbish. I listened to a lady on Radio 4 here in the UK about 4 years ago complaining about the size of phones and her Samsung was too big for her hands. At the time the XZ2 Compact had just been released.
Sony needed to firstly actually market the line, and secondly drop the model rate to ~18 months and they would have had a winner. However sales of any device that is not market properly is going to be awful
Used/Refurb Galaxy S10e? (Score:2)
6" is still too large (Score:3)
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And you could drop it repeatedly without hurting it.
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I had the HTC Wildfire 3.2" and loved it, was perfect size for this time, 2010 https://www.gsmarena.com/htc_w... [gsmarena.com]
But now 13 years later i prefer a phablet phone, no way in hell ill go back to 3" displays on current uses.
So, a Pixel 4a? (Score:3)
I believe the Pixel 4a would have met those requirements when released. Other options exist.
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And the Pixel 4a is a great device.
Re:So, a Pixel 4a? (Score:4, Informative)
Agreed, it's my current device. If it had a removable battery, I'd probably keep it for a very long time.
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Bad fingerprint sensor, weak WiFi reception and it has a reputation of the camera breaking after a while - but that last thing hasn't happened to mine yet.
Top durability though.
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The fingerprint sensor is fantastic on mine, no issues at all. Camera has been fine on mine. No complaints on wifi either. You may have gotten a bad one?
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I've deployed many of them in a corporate environment. They have been really good. Had one outright die under warranty, like the CPU or memory just died. Otherwise they have been rock solid and popular with staff.
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Well since they said "Stock Android OS", that basically limits you to a Pixel or Nexus, doesn't it? Or can you jailbreak, say, a Samsung phone and run Stock Android on it?
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Yea, especially with the "stock Android" and decent camera requirements probably just Pixel 4a (and maybe 5) match (otherwise there are 98 phones on GsmArena filtered by up to 6" screen and from 2020). But especially the 4a certainly matches his requirements so what's the whole deal?
Ah, "If no one else makes one I guess I will be forced to make it myself", I guess he's looking for outraged people to do a bit of free marketing, based as often marketing is on bending the truth?
Samsung Galaxy s10e (Score:2)
Samsung Galaxy s10e. Flagship-level phone, 5.8 inches high.
https://www.phonearena.com/pho... [phonearena.com]
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It's a flagship from 3 years ago. They're great value when bought second hand. I'd go for Pixel 4, tho.
"A BIT more?" (Score:5, Insightful)
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And that's why there are no premium phones available. They'll just toss whatever cheap crap parts they can to make a phone for that price.
Want a small phone? There are lots out there. But you'll give up the screen, camera, processor and memory for it.
Want a good phone with decent specs? You either have to go with the gigantic ones because they don't make 'em with small screens.
Want so
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That's 3 to four times what I'm willing to spend on pocket annoyer device.
I agree. If all it did was annoy me I wouldn't want to spend on it either. On the other hand I happy spend more for the single most important device in my personal inventory which doubles as entertainment, computer, etc.
I like big phones (Score:2)
Not fucking happening (Score:2)
With the sorry state of mobile apps today, especially those that can't match up with their basic desktop counterparts (Google Earth, I'm fucking looking SQUARE at YOU with your lacking networked-KML capability,) there's no point in building a shitty small smartphone like some whiny designer fucking wants.
Until you can give me fucking desktop-parity program-wise, shut the fuck up, Eric Migikovsky. That's the REAL smartphone edge, and all of you ignorant fucks don't have a clue - including GOOGLE.
Won't that compete with the Samsung Galaxy S22? (Score:2)
Samsung shrunk down their smallest Galaxy from last year's smallest, the S21.
The screen is 6.1", but the bezels are rather minimal.
S22:
146 mm (5.7 in) H
70.6 mm (2.78 in) W
7.6 mm (0.30 in) D
I have the Google Pixel 3 XL, And the Moto G5+, both known for being pretty stock Android, and my Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra isn't much different, and arguably the UI is subtly improved over stock Android.
Buy it on sale or with the frequent discounts Samsung offers, and the S22 is around the sought after price point.
It's cu
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S22 is great attempt to keep sane form factor of a flagship, but suffers from a problem common to sub-6" phones - tiny battery life. Modern high spec phones with 4000mAh+ and sub-6" OLED are very few and between.
Galaxy S4 Mini (Score:2)
I miss my Galaxy S4 Mini something fierce, but it's not even supported by Cyanogenmod any more, so no point getting a new display etc for it.
They don't make them because they don't sell (Score:2)
what chances will an android mini have?
also, the list of things this guy wants are subjective. I don't care about the phone's camera at all and would much rather have a large battery instead. I taped both front and back-facing cameras on my phone because I never use them and wouldn't want a malicious entity activating them at will.
Sony Made Them, Few Bought Them at Full Price (Score:2)
Sony had its "compact" versions of its Experia Z and then X series of phones that had the same guts, but just a smaller, lower resolution screen in the early to mid 2010's. They didn't sell. Most people didn't want to pay almost full sized phone prices for a small phone.
Experia Z1 Compact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Experia Z3 Compact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Experia Z5 Compact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Experia X Compact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Companies would make them
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There was the XZ1 Compact and XZ2 Compact too.
They probably didn't sell that well (I had a Z1 Compact which I replaced with an XZ1 compact which I still have) because they where very very badly marketed. Like not at all. I met plenty of people who complained about phone size but simply didn't know a premium compact model existed.
Ah to be young again (Score:2)
Pro tip for pissing off potential customers who are over 40: Try and redirect them from using their web browser, on a decent size screen on a PC, to using an app on their phone.
Re: Ah to be young again (Score:2)
If my maths is right he is 35. Give him another 10 years and he with find those tiny 6" screens really annoying because you have to get out reading glasses to find out what Google has deemed is so world breaking important that it has to notify you about it.
I'm getting close to 50, but I've always just gone into the display settings and selected the display and font size to make things readable. I usually just drop the display size by one notch to make things fit better on the screen, but if you have vision problems, maybe do the opposite. If you want to be more precise, "wm density" and "wm size" work well, but might need root nowadays.
Pro tip for pissing off potential customers who are over 40: Try and redirect them from using their web browser, on a decent size screen on a PC, to using an app on their phone.
I've never seen that on my desktop, but on my phone websites do that occasionally. Of course I always ignore it. I'm not inst
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I've never seen that on my desktop, but on my phone websites do that occasionally. Of course I always ignore it. I'm not installing some fucking app for a website.
Same, especially since on the browser my DNS blacklists and client plugins (ublock origin especially, of course) have the most impact. Those "apps" are always shit anyway, it's not like the offer anything YOU want only what THEY want.
push for more Linux based phones please (Score:2)
Current linux based phones target enthusiasts and developers, and are not suitable for your average user. Why not push this kind of enthusiasm into the linux based phone space? More interest and wider adoption of nix phones will drive innovation, adding a healthy alternative to a market saturated with only two other options.
Totally agree (Score:2)
BTW, I'm writing this on a ChromeOS tablet with a physical keyboard for browsing the interwebs pipes.
Why the price tag? (Score:2)
Small phone should be cheap!
My ideal phone (Score:2)
I'd rather a small screenless brick for the phone (Score:2)
How mini is mini? (Score:2)
I liked my Lumia 635. Easy to fit in most normal pockets, and the Win8/Win10 phone interface was easy to read and use. We all know what happened to that ... though I did keep it going for 5 years with benefit of some minor registry hacking, until a hardware failure killed it.
Replacement was a Nokia 6.1. Beautiful phone, well designed, solidly built, largish for me but usable - better pocket fit than recent models like the Pixel 5a that replaced it, much more durable than the operating system (Android 8 on r
Re:Just buy an iPhone Mini (Score:5, Informative)
For the regular person I don't see what an Android phone gets you over an iPhone. Please educate me.
Biggest thing I miss is the ability to sideload. I know there are convoluted ways of doing it under iOS using paid developer certificates, re-signing with the free certificate every X days, or using a paid service (which are all using leaked enterprise certificates that occasionally go *poof*). On Android, you can just check that "Allow unknown apps from sources" tickbox and you're permanently good to go.
Now, you might think this is of no use to an "average" person, but my mother has experienced app updates that broke some sort of functionality and I've attempted to help, but there's no way to roll back an app to its previous version on iOS. You used to be able to sync apps through iTunes and backup older apps to your computer, but that functionality has been depreciated for years.
The other benefit that Android gives you over iOS is increased customization. While iOS has improved in this regard, you're still locked out of quite a bit of aspects of the user experience which should be user customizable. My partner still isn't a fan of not being able to easily use custom icons on his iPhone 13 Pro Max. Again, that's something there is an extremely convoluted workaround for, involving creating user-defined shortcuts, but on Android you can just install a 3rd party launcher.
Also, since everyone seems to bitch about it in every single discussion involving iPhones: that damn lightning port, instead of a standard USB C connection.
Re:Just buy an iPhone Mini (Score:5, Informative)
There are more advantages on Android, I'd like to add my 2 cents here.
On iPhone there are no call recording apps, on Android there are, and they're essential apps for me.
In my country they're perfectly legal as long as you are a part in the conversation. My recorded calls already saved me of some serious trouble, including one where I was risking lose a property which I bought with all of my lifetime savings at the time. Long story.
Sure, Google never fails in being a d1ck and is blocking them soon on Play Store, but you can still sideload.
Another, sure, is P2 connector. Specially important if you hate anything Bluetooth like me. The few things that works are much more expensive than their wired counterpart. I have a $15 wired phone that sounds better than my $150 BT phone.
Speaking of money, any peripheral for iPhone cost much more than their Android counterpart. Some stuff necessarily are for iPhone and for iPhone only. But in Android some stuff just works sometimes out of the box (if it plugs it works), at most some need a cheap, generic adapter, like input (mouse/keyboard/joystick for PC), storage (thumbdrives, external HD), even video output (HDMI).
Not to mention the cost of an iPhone itself, at least in my country they cost 3x to 5x more than an Android phone with similar or even better specs.
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My recorded calls already saved me of some serious trouble, including one where I was risking lose a property which I bought with all of my lifetime savings at the time. Long story.
One way around this is to jot down the important points then send the other party a letter with your take-away. "Today we talked on the phone about this and this and this, these were the outcomes." If they disagree they have to say so. It's a bit more work but is much less brittle and dependent on techie crap. And good to sum up for yourself as well.
I usually insist on writing letters, and I do so mindful that a judge might read them later. Doesn't stop me from being forceful and often not very polite at a
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My recorded calls already saved me of some serious trouble, including one where I was risking lose a property which I bought with all of my lifetime savings at the time. Long story.In my country they're perfectly legal as long as you are a part in the conversation.
Must be a fucked up country then. Ever considered to move to a sane country?
Re:Just buy an iPhone Mini (Score:4, Insightful)
For the regular person I don't see what an Android phone gets you over an iPhone. Please educate me.
Less nannying. Regular person might not care though, or indeed like even more. Thus the market.
Re:Just buy an iPhone Mini (Score:5, Informative)
Less nannying.
* About $500 difference in purchase price plus reasonably priced accessories.
* Not being locked into Apple forever via cloud/proprietary accessories/etc.
* The ability to program it without bring forced to switch every other computer in the house to Apple.
* The ability to exchange data with it easily without switching every other computer in the house to Apple.
* A USB-C port that I can use ordinary chargers.
* Software and APIs won't be "deprecated" at the whim of Apple marketing.
The list goes on and on.
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But you will get iOS updates for 5 years or more, and have them roll out at the same time everyone else gets them.
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* Software and APIs won't be "deprecated" at the whim of Apple marketing.
You don't get this one. Google make breaking changes to APIs constantly relying on app developers to update their apps to the latest API level.
This I should note is good news. I don't need a long term stagnant feature stable device. I have a PC for that. Breaking APIs is what allowed phones to develop so quickly and honestly apps are dime a dozen so if one breaks I'll move to another.
It does suck for developers though and is largely why Apple and Google are both going on an outdated app purge. Too much shit
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Google make breaking changes to APIs constantly relying on app developers to update their apps to the latest API level.
If I have software on a phone, it is linked to the API on that phone. AKA to the libraries I used to link it with.
There can nothing break. It is impossible.
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I just looked up retail prices of phones my cell company's web site. (Verizon in the United States, fwiw.) The iPhone 13 ranges from $800 to $1100 depending on options. That's in line with the prices listed on Apple's site, so I'm pretty sure that's not subsidized by service contract bullshit. Android phones have a much greater variation, all the way from $150 on the low e
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I exchange data with my Windows PC all the time, mostly via Google Drive.
The simplest thing, if you do not want to go into Google Drive, Windows Drive, Apple Drive (I do not know all the names), is to have a chat app, like Telegram, and either message it to yourself, or have a personal channel and post it there.
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But, you are aware that basically every point you made: is false?
The only thing you (might? not sure actually) an Apple computer for is for uploading an App into the Apple App-Store. Everything else is completely wrong. Typical Appel Hater Android Fanboi.
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from the FAQ in the article:
Why don’t you just use an iPhone Mini?
I actually do now! I switched from Android back to iPhone in late 2021 because the Pixel 6 was too ridiculously large. This was my first iPhone since the OG iPhone.
But only 5% of all iPhones sold are Minis (roughly 10m phones per year). This means that Apple may decide to kill the Mini. For Apple, 10m phones is peanuts. But for an independent company 10m units per year would be spectacular.
If Apple kills the Mini, those people will need
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An Android phone (with Beeper for iMessage) might be an adequate alternative.
It may be a little sus that he just also happens to be the same guy who created the Beeper service, which he could be attempting to get free press for. In case you're wondering, it's a $10/mo paid service. $120/yr seems a bit on the spendy side, since iMessage is free on iOS. Also, most people I know have multiple messaging clients installed, regardless of whether they're on iOS or Android.
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Also, personally, after 6 months of iOS I am itching to get back to Android. Why? The notification system SUCKS on iOS compared to Android. It’s impossible to move files between apps.
Web Push is in Beta right now. Other than that, Notifications are fine (and easier to control) in iOS.
As for "Moving Files", if you can't just "Share" a File out to another App using the "Sharing" Button (looks like a square with an arrow pointing out of it), you can almost always "Bounce" a File from App to App through the "Files" App. Heck, (something I didn't know) you can even Share files to an SMB share using the Files App:
https://osxdaily.com/2019/11/0... [osxdaily.com]
What particular Files are you trying to "Move"
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iOS doesn't have game console emulators. (Well technically it does, but only for self-contained bundles of an emulator and matching ROM sold by a publisher still in business with a valid Apple Developer Program membership, not for ROMs that you developed using the homebrew devkit, nor for ROMs that you dumped from an authentic cartridge pursuant to 17 USC 117(a)(1) and foreign counterparts.)
iOS doesn't have notifications from web applications. Apple steadfastly refuses to implement the standard Push API in
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iOS doesn't have notifications from web applications. Apple steadfastly refuses to implement the standard Push API in WebKit for iOS. Progress delayed is progress denied [infrequently.org].
Good News Everyone!
As of iOS 15.4, Apple seems to be serious about adding Web Push Notifications. It is currently in Beta; but very likely to come sometime this year:
https://www.macrumors.com/2022... [macrumors.com]
Re:Just buy an iPhone Mini (Score:5, Insightful)
Please educate me.
The same reason you don't buy Oracle products. Vendor lock-in.
You may LOVE everything about your current iOS / iPhone device. But if you don't like it next year, you either bend over with a healthy-dose of stockholm syndrome -or take all of your app purchases, movie purchases, facetime / imessage contacts, etc. and throw them in a fiery pit. Once you buy in, there's a ton of tiny shit they purposefully do to make moving back out difficult.
If I don't like the choices my android manufacturer makes, then I just buy another brand next year, log in with my google account, and move on with life (e.g. I've seamlessly moved between nexus/pixel, smasung, and oneplus phones as each has made, IMHO, terrible choices)
Now while some of this may seem abstract, consider where you would be if you were happy with Mac Pro Towers before they released the trash can. Or if you were happy with X-Servers before they cancelled them outright. Or if you liked an escape key on your Mac Pro laptop circa 2017ish? Or hell, if you wanted any usable keyboard whatsoever on your mac pro laptop 1-2 generations ago when the brittle AF butterfly crap they had to repeatedly RMA for everyone was all the rage.
Most of apple's decisions are good, but like every company they do have a long history of stinkers, and once you are in the ecosystem you have to eat from their trough.
ALSO, for the slashdot crowd, I can download Android Studio on any PC on ANY OS, code up an app in Java, Kotlin, Native C/C++, Flutter, etc, and then have it running on my phone a few seconds later. I don't need a recent Macbook Pro + Xcode. I don't need a dev account + signing key, etc. I can push an ADB out to anywhere I want (including some free stores like F-droid) on my terms like I can with any other PC that I own. The iPhone solution isn't as great if you value that kind of freedom, even theoretically (i.e. even if you don't plan on writing your own stuff, do you really want to support a platform that purposefully makes that process difficult?)
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ALSO, for the slashdot crowd, I can download Android Studio on any PC on ANY OS, code up an app in (Java, Kotlin), Native C/C++, Flutter, etc, and then have it running on my phone a few seconds later.
You can do that on an iPhone, too. Except for the Java/Kotlin part.
I don't need a recent Macbook Pro you don't. And never did. My Mac I use for Android/Flutter development is from 2011 ...
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Why doesn't the guy just do himself a favor and buy an iPhone mini. (...) Please educate me.
because what he really seems to want is throwing big bullshit projects around: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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Or get one of the vast number of compact Android phones that Chinese companies make for markets like India and Brazil. How many containerloads would the OP like, and in what colour?
As an aside, when did ./ become an outsourced Google for lazy people?
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As an aside, when did ./ become an outsourced Google for lazy people?
I believe it was 8/17/2006
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For about $200, you can get a new unlocked Android that's pretty decent. So if it has the features needed, why pay more?
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For the regular person I don't see what an Android phone gets you over an iPhone. Please educate me.
For me, it's that I just plug it into my Windows PC and it mounts as a volume. Wanna copy an MP4 or MP3 over? Just drag it across. Want to navigate the Android file system to the WhatsApp image library or a podcast library? Just click click click and you're there.
The amount of time I have wasted cursing the bloated garbage that is iTunes for windows just so I can put a file on an iPhone or iPad is unbe
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What's an "iPhone Mini". A small version of the iPhone?
It's actually a normal sized iPhone, but the TikTok generation isn't happy unless they're carrying around a Black Friday doorbuster special in their pockets, so phone sizes are all out of whack.
Re: iPhone Mini? (Score:3)
I would imagine most of Slashdot's audience is of the generation that will soon need to get glasses and/or magnifying glass to be able to read anything on a screen smaller than 6".
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This dude is an arsehole.
"My tastes are just so specialized and refined, that no phone on the market is good enough for me!"
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There is a college across the street where I live, I can't stop laughing seeing I would say 50% of the students walk around with what looks almost with a tablet in their hands. 75% of that 50% even constantly look at it like it was giving them instructions about where they should step next.
They seem to be completely oblivious of the environment around them and to be mentally somewhere else.
Re:I want an iPad Mini-Sized Android Phone! (Score:5, Insightful)
Non-techies prefer phablets because their phone is their computer.
As a techie, I spend my time staring at my computer monitor, not my phone. I only use my phone as a phone and alarm clock, so I prefer mini-size since it takes up less room in my pocket.
UniHerz will build you one, via kickstarter (Score:3)
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I've been using the Jelly2 for about a year now. It's my third tiny phone, and pretty well the best.
What's the biggest thing in your pants?
The correct answer is: your wallet.
It's a ~$200, android phone, 1.5", with perfectly great cameras, a headphone jack, and all of the modern-day useless features -- like face unlock that doesn't work in the dark, and a fingerprint scanner that doesn't work with big fingers.
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The correct answer is: your wallet. ...
I'm male, mate
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I 'graduated' from a 5.something incher with big bezels to a 6.something incher with minimal bezels. The extra size felt excessive at first - and not worth the extra weight, plus having a device that barely fits in my pocket. I'm used to it now, but I'd prefer to have a device the size of my old 5-incher but without the bezels. Is that so hard to imagine? I do appreciate the all-day battery life of my big phone, but I don't really care so much about having a 'flagship-level' processor. The processor in
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Unlike say 10 years ago, the tables have turned, where most Apps are now designed for Mobile Devices, and often do more then say normal web page on a desktop. So often we have to use a Phone to do tasks because they never coded it to work on a PC.
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Well the Nokia 6310i model was likely the best phone I ever had as a phone.
Unfortunately I meed the occasional quick internet search and such and I am too lazy to pull out the laptop every time so need a "Smart" phone.
Then few comments:
>My nokia 6310* does fine as a phone
You will soon face problems with that as 2g services are being turned of slowly worldwide.
>On that note, "normies" are happy with their "intertube-tv" "phablet", because it is their computer? Bit of a complete fail to provide them wit
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>Do you need that, or are you simply being lazy? There is a difference, even though American English likes to paper over it by using "I need" for "I want".
Was that part of my message unclear? Both.
As I said in the thing: I need to do the searches but I could do them with a laptop, but lazy part comes in the fact that I would need to go to my bag, pull out the laptop, turn it on and then I would need to get an internet connection to it and so on.. So just much easier to do with the phone.
>Over here, 3G
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2G is supposed to go away here in Britain around 2031. There's a lot of remote instruments and devices which use 2G phone tech to transmit small amounts of data, things like water level meters in reservoirs, rural weather stations etc. that have replacement cycles measured in decades and no budget anyway. Upgrading these devices to 4G or 5G isn't going to happen in a hurry, hence the delay in shutting down the 2G networks.
The amount of radio spectrum bandwidth taken up by 2G isn't that much compared to 4G a
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There's a lot of remote instruments and devices which use 2G phone tech to transmit small amounts of data, things like water level meters in reservoirs, rural weather stations etc. that have replacement cycles measured in decades and no budget anyway
I used to work in mobile telematics for public utilities (gas / water / electric).
Even 2-3 years ago they knew 2G was going dark and they were upgrading their gear to LTE. Heck, 3G is doing dark as well.
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Yea kids today are SOOO SUPID! Back in my day, they would just walk around smoking, and the other students were inside a building because a full size desktop PC or even a "Small" laptop of the time would be impractical to walk around outside and use.
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