Sony Xperia 5 V review(www.gsmarena.com)

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SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml

11 points

1 year ago

I think it’s just the culmination of removing things from phones and increasing prices. We keep paying exorbitant prices and they keep cheaping out. Smartphones used to be one device for everything and now they are glorified cameras with internet where you need a heat gun to replace a freaking camera. So to me it feels insulting that they would remove a charger.

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WhoRoger@lemmy.world

1 point

1 year ago

And all of that sucks, except not including a charger.

It’s complaining about the one thing that actually makes sense, and letting everything else slide.

Pack-in chargers and cables always suck. I don’t get how people use them, especially those cheap rubber 1m long cables. Utterly useless.

And chargers with one port? Who shells out 1 grand for a phone and has just one device? You can get an excellent charger with 4 ports and support for all the stupid proprietary protocols for like 30 bucks. Why would I use a pack-in one?

Complain about lack of replaceable batteries, headphone jacks, expandable storage, complain about Google’s monopoly and data harvesting in phones, not that they don’t give you some useless extra crap.

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Amju Wolf@pawb.social

1 point

1 year ago

Pack-in chargers and cables always suck. I don’t get how people use them, especially those cheap rubber 1m long cables. Utterly useless.

Any decent company will give you a high-spec charger and a decent cable with your fucking $1000+ phone.

Deciding to ditch the charger is only to inflate their bottom line, especially if you look at what they then sell the charger for separately.

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WhoRoger@lemmy.world

1 point

1 year ago

None ever does or has. Only boutique brands like Razer may give you a braided cable, but nobody ever gives you a cable longer than 1 metre, never mind a charger with more ports.

But let’s say they do. Let’s say they include a selection of 3 good cables, and a charger with 4 ports that supports all the competing protocols, and throw in wireless charger too. Well congrats, now every phone, tablet, watch, camera and speaker is 50 $€£ more expensive, comes in a box twice as large, and we’re back to the problem of having too many useless chargers that stay in boxes.

Btw I use magnetic cables anyway. So whatever they include cable-wise is useless waste for me.

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Amju Wolf@pawb.social

1 point

1 year ago

I think your definition of decent charger&cable is just different from me then I guess.

I expect to get a charger that has the fast charging for the phone (not necessarily the top spec, but high enough) and a usable cable, let’s say a 0.5 to 1 meter, that can also do basic data transfer.

If I wanted a charger with 4 ports I’d buy it. If I wanted a braided cable I’d buy it. I don’t want either - but I want a charger that I know works fast enough with my phone, and it becomes my travel charger. Everything else I can manage.

This will be less of a problem as power delivery becomes the norm, but most people probably don’t have a decent PD charger several times over at home. Worst case you’ll have an extra charger where an old one dies, which seems to be common especially with some peoples’ cables.

Or, you know, alternatively do actually discount the phone by $60 or however much they act like it costs (it’s obviously way less than that, but chargers are still a significant expense largely because they need to have many different SKUs for different regions so the logistics are more complicated).

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WhoRoger@lemmy.world

1 point

1 year ago

If I wanted a charger with 4 ports I’d buy it. If I wanted a braided cable I’d buy it.

You really should try it. People don’t know what they’re missing until they use it.

I have the same experience with lots of pack-in products. One that comes to mind are camera (DSLR) neck straps. They’re absolutely dreadful, and shiny advertisements to boot. At some point I tested a bunch of 3rd party ones and found how much better they are. Yet people kept acting like I’m the weird one for paying 20-50 $€£ for something that improves the experience so much.

Same thing here. If for nothing else, not including those crappy accessories just makes people think about the alternatives.

There’s a reason why accessory brands even exist. OEMs actually rarely know how to do accessories well.

let’s say a 0.5 to 1 meter

So FYI standard length is 1 metre, which tends to be a surprise to people when I tell them… 0.5m is super short for anything but a PC connection or powerbank. Again I suggest you try a good, soft, braided 2m cable if you charge using a power brick.

that can also do basic data transfer

What’s “basic”? You know, with most phones you only get a USB2 cable (if it does data transfer at all), again showing how useful they are.

People rarely do data transfer via cable these days, and a really good USB3 cable doesn’t cost 5 cents, so again to me it makes sense to just get one to your liking.

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SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml

2 points

1 year ago

We need to force them to improve on that front then not excuse them for cutting costs.

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