Post by mcc / Redsky

The orb is an important part of the aesthetic

sep 9, 2025, 6:44 pm • 2 0 • view

not only is the humble 3.5mm jack being repackaged as a rare luxury, but it's somehow too much to ask that cameras not encroach upon the screen. displays with rounded corners should also be illegal, if you're selling me "X by Y resolution" it must be a real rectangle with that many pixels

sep 9, 2025, 7:08 pm • 1 0 • view

All I want out of a phone is the 2017 Cat S41 that I still have that is still in good working condition and is still the best phone I've ever used by a serious margin to be able to connect to mobile networks again

sep 11, 2025, 8:20 am • 0 0 • view

These days I use the Cat S42. It's ok, but a strict downgrade in that it does not have physical home/etc buttons. I do not understand why we stopped having these. There is zero advantage putting these buttons on the touchscreen, where apps can fuck with them and it's easier to tap them accidentally.

sep 11, 2025, 8:24 am • 0 0 • view

my X Compact was the last phone that didn't feel like I was biting a bullet re: hugeness but its square corners kept rubbing holes in my jeans, so I have to go all the way back to the Nexus S

sep 9, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view

I have a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact that once ran FirefoxOS. It was my favorite little gadget for awhile. It runs some Android variant now, but only connects to wifi, which makes me sad.

sep 9, 2025, 7:40 pm • 2 0 • view

Oh that sounds incredible

sep 9, 2025, 8:14 pm • 1 0 • view

There was this fun little window where smart phone design had more or less locked in to a standard and that standard involved , at least in part, being pleasant to hold and look at while being fully accessible by the average human hand.

sep 9, 2025, 6:51 pm • 15 1 • view

This feels exactly wrong in a niche way.

sep 9, 2025, 8:26 pm • 0 0 • view

I bought the last xperia model that was released in the US, because it STILL HAS A HEADPHONE JACK It kinda makes sense that Sony would be the last holdout on that :V

sep 9, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view

similarly i kind of miss my xperia 5 mark III. if you've gotta have a big screen, narrow + tall felt much more ergonomic than the aspect ratio everyone else has decided on. dual SIM or SIM + microSD was pretty cool. had a headphone jack. shame the camera was a potato.

sep 9, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view

Oh I'm uh. I'm typing this on one of those right now. Sony did keep updating the line…

sep 9, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view

Camera is more than a bit weird admittedly… I think it might be a good camera that expects you to control it manually.

sep 9, 2025, 6:53 pm • 1 0 • view

yeah maybe "potato" was unfair - it was certainly better than, say, my old iphone 5S or original xaiomi Mi Mix. It just didn't seem to effortlessly snap good pictures the way my friend's Pixel phones were doing at the time.

sep 9, 2025, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view

maybe i should revisit it, it might come off more favorably now that iphones automatically HDR all your pictures to hell and there's no way to turn it off.

sep 9, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view

check out adobe indigo, it actually lives up to what they claim it does

sep 9, 2025, 10:43 pm • 0 0 • view

This seems to be iPhone exclusive?

sep 9, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view

yes

sep 9, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view

2020: Xperia gives worse photos than an iPhone or Pixel because the Xperia has less machine learning 2025: The same Xperia gives better photos than an iPhone or Pixel because now the iPhone and Pixel have too much machine learning

sep 9, 2025, 8:15 pm • 4 1 • view

the xperia 1 vi having a whole ass 85-170mm optical power zoom made that debacle about the pixels using ai shit for """extra zoom range""" so much funnier

sep 10, 2025, 1:17 am • 2 0 • view

My sister-in-law let me borrow hers for a while... and wanted it back. Yeah. Yeah I can see why she loved it and why you love it. Super satisfying form factor, and solid software really!

sep 9, 2025, 7:36 pm • 1 0 • view

Yes, please

sep 9, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view

It doesn't quite fit the rectangular aspect, but have you looked at Unihertz' Jelly Star?

sep 9, 2025, 7:00 pm • 1 0 • view

I almost bought their keyboard phone in the Kickstarter… … I don't want a physical keyboard tho lol

sep 9, 2025, 8:16 pm • 0 0 • view

They do more than physical keyboard phones! The Jelly Star's main gimmick is that it's very small (Tho while I've seen good reviews about it I don't own one so I can't say how it holds up as a daily phone) www.unihertz.com/products/jel...

sep 9, 2025, 9:27 pm • 1 0 • view

I daily the Unihertz Tank Mini it works well and it has a great battery life. It's a bit heavy for such a small phone though.

sep 11, 2025, 6:53 am • 0 0 • view

It's weird that there's a gap where you can get "small novelty phone" or "oversized mainstream phone" but if you want "about the size of an original iphone" that's just not an option.

sep 9, 2025, 9:39 pm • 1 0 • view

Yes, but it's too small, i've seen them in person. The physical keyboard phone seemed closer to something i'd use

sep 9, 2025, 9:38 pm • 1 0 • view

god yeah I had the XZ (same shape, slightly different model) and it's absolutely the best phone I've ever owned. Also one of the last phones without a Camera Tumour sprouting from the back, so it would actually lie flat on a desk instead of rattling all over the place

sep 9, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view

Looks like the only current phone that kinda fits the criteria these days is the Xperia 10 VI?

sep 9, 2025, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view

the 5 and 10 lines are super fricking tall :(

sep 9, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view

yeah basically no one makes phones with less than a 19:9 aspect ratio anymore :/

sep 9, 2025, 11:15 pm • 0 0 • view

I miss having some area on the front of my phone where I can hold the phone, but also not touch things on my phone. Even a centimetre would be nice! Maybe a big knob or something somewhere too.

sep 9, 2025, 8:32 pm • 0 0 • view

Or a crank like the Playdate!!!

sep 9, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view

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