Just thinking back to the iPhone 6 which is 10 years old this year. I’m trying to work out if there are any features people use that weren’t available 10 years ago?
My dad still uses my old iPhone 6, and it really highlighted for me that innovation has stagnated in the last 10 years, unless I’m missing something.
Find my, down to the centimeter
Measure
Fast autofocus
Much much better camera
Many software improvements but I won’t list because you’ll have gotten many of them
Photo album with object recognition to create virtual albums
5g
USB-C, including much faster charging, 10gbps data
Wireless charging
Screen is always on
Thread
Satellite emergency texting
They hawe much better cameras today, much better battery life. Much better processors and graphic processors for much better gamming. More ram and more storage 🙂 Better quality video, and much brighter displayes for using in sunlight. Louder speakers for music. And 120Hz displayes for smoooooooth everything 🙂 Good enough if you ask me 🤷♂️
More of a problem if you ask me is that most of that software is “closed source” and they are spying on us all the time. We need more of “open source” software for good privacy and to have control in our hands. But education about those things is the cay. Because there are alredy a lot of open source programs, apps, and even games. But becayse people are litle edycated about all that, those apps are not recognised as the best, and small amount of people are using them. And that means not wery much money for developing new open source apps and games… Instead, most people are using “close source” apps and games that are directly spying on them all, and tracking every single move… But we need freedom, and thats why i try to educate people around me, about stuff that i know, and learn from them some things that i dont know.
I mostly use my phone for maps, and modern Google Maps is a lot better than maps a decade ago. It’d probably run on a decade old phone still, though.
Last 2 days on a charge…
my phone? not a thing. I really wish it could act a mobile hotspot as well as make phone calls but they just don’t make feature phones like that.
my ‘feature’ phone can act as a mobile hotspot and connect to wifi networks (it does have a mobile browser and email client), but i have never used it for anything other than taking and making voice calls (don’t even use sms).
whats the make and model is it? I would love to connect my laptop to cellular data without a smartphone. Its like my dream phone!
it’s some cheap no-name pos from verizon. i wouldn’t wish it on anyone (not verizon, either, for that matter).
it’s getting replaced, hopefully tomorrow. it’s the first phone i’ve never dropped… not even once. and it’s cracked, literally in pieces, and the hinge basically disintegrated. shortest time a phone has lasted me (by far); barely a year and a half. my previous ones all went 5+ years each.