For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up
Buttons.
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I miss tether points. We have these super expensive, slippery devices and we have to stick something like a pop socket onto them to be able to get a good grip on them. I used to have these little dangly thumb loops that if I dropped my phone, it would just dangle there instead of slamming into the ground. It's very minor, but I don't understand why they don't have them anymore.
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IR blaster.
Ad-Hoc wireless networking. I miss it, was useful back in the day if you needed to share files with multiple people without a wireless router at a location. Most laptops don't support this anymore. To be fair, I've only really wanted to use it maybe twice in the last 10 years.
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Replaceable battery, micro SD card slots are hard to come by these days, too.
My phone is 4 years old and this sounds like a horror story to me. I have no idea what I'm going to do next.
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Durability, battery life, repairability.
ITT are many middle aged nerds
~~ITT~~ On this platform are many middle aged nerds
We must keep the stories of the old ways alive. Help the younglings to remember what was lost.
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Pixel phones and I believe Samsung phones just light up the OLED display to let you know that there is notification. An independent LED was only necessary because screens would have to light up the whole display to indicate notification,but now we have better screens so that isn't necessary.
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I miss the home phisical button and back/menu touch 'button' on tablet and phones. Having to swipe down from the top, then press the right symbol at the bottom before they disappear again is a mess.
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What happened to the notification light?
My Orbic Myra 5G has one, and I got it for free.
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I want a IR blaster again and a front notification light.
Or at least let me easily simulate the notification light without a third part app.
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That crackling sound you had on your calls back in the analogic era. Not sure is a feature but made calls more warm.
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I still require all my phones to have a SD card slot since the higher capacity versions are way more expensive than even a UHS card.
Yes it's getting harder to find newer phones that have it above entry level models.
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Physical buttons.