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Rohansi 2 hours ago

Why did you buy it then? There are systems on the market still that have none of these issues.

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watwut 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Which ones? I would happily use the phone I had 10 years ago. It was smaller, fit into a pocket better and literally the only meaningful thing that got better in between is camera.

And if I go further into history, I loved my phone with physical querty keyboard (nokia). There is no such thing on the market now, but I would love physical keyboard again.

	▲	xethos an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> I would happily use the phone I had 10 years ago > There is no such thing on the market now Good news, the ~12-year-old BlackBerry Q20 is back, and shipping, [0] with an updated motherboard. It's a real product, not vaporware; I have two. It has a headphone jack, a small form-factor, removable micro-SD card slot, and a battery that takes little more than a guitar pick and #0 Philips screwdriver to replace. Parts are cheap as hell as well, with a new screen costing under $25USD, and replacement keyboards under $30. There's multiple clean sheet designs [1,2] of similar devices as well. Though I expect them to be treated like fun little runabout cars: made for (typically young) people that can't justify the cost, leaving nobody to buy them, who then bemoan their discontinuation... due to poor sales [0] https://zinwa.com/product/q25-full-device/ [1] https://zinwa.com/product/p26-full-device-pre-order/ [2] https://www.clicksphone.com/ca/communicator