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Manufacturers don’t make displays under 6 inches available for purchase, with special cases (such as the iPhone Mini) being made under exclusive contracts. The best lead they have so far is to try to use displays designed for the front part of a foldable phone, but they’re yet to strike an agreement.

TIL that display manufacturers are also part of the reason why we aren't getting small phones and why it's probably even harder for manufacturers like Fairphone to make them.

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[–] joemo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I like having the options and agree it's pretty shitty to remove those features, how do you use up all your storage? I upgraded to 256GB and am no where near filling it.

I've seen people argue they need to store a ton of media, but I'd argue you don't need to keep a backup of everything in your phone. Rotate media out after you watched it or whatever.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've nearly 40 gigabytes of FLACs as well as commissioned art (much smaller in size than my music collection) stored on a 256 gigglebyte card in my phone. While the 128 gigs built into my phone is more than enough, when it's time to get a new phone all I gotta do is slap it into the new phone and boom, gucci. That convenience, on top of only needing to remove the card to add stuff to it, is why an SD card slot is non negotiable for me.

[–] joemo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you're telling me if a perfect phone existed but did not have removable storage, you wouldn't get it?

You can just transfer those things. This doesn't make any sense to me, I'm sorry.

I would rather have any of the features that are part of the non-removeable storage, which I'm guessing is related to better water/dust resistance and a larger battery or other internals which I would use every day.

[–] LucasWaffyWaf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In fairness I'm not too picky outside of an SD card slot and 3.5mm jack. I ain't a power user, so as long as I can chat with my buddies, reply to emails, enjoy my media, and it does all that just fast enough, I'll take anything with an SD card slot and headphone jack. I'm not the average user lol