Touch is valid. Touch has its place. Touch on a phone is okay. Not great, okay. Better than buttons in some use cases, worse than buttons in some use cases. Modern phones are massive compromises and lifestyle gadgets. I like them, but wish they were different and would evolve in different ways, not all the same way. Where’s the milspec chonker phone? Like a big pack of cigarettes and with modularity and built to last. Like a mouse-atx format where I can shop for components and at home I have a phone workbench where I can repair and work on my phone that has a nice lens and a sweet hearsink and two giant batteries and a custom sealed port bay with the ports that I want, and it runs straight up linux. This baby is a custom analog camera and holds a roll of 35mm film in a module, has laser radar autofocus, front facing, nice sounding speakers, and can last for a two weeks on one battery charge, but I have a couple extra batteries that I can swap out to either battery port if one gets low without turning it off.
I want that phone too. But if I’m honest and someone created it, it would cost more than flagship phones do now, and I already don’t spend money on expensive phones.
Touch is valid. Touch has its place. Touch on a phone is okay. Not great, okay. Better than buttons in some use cases, worse than buttons in some use cases. Modern phones are massive compromises and lifestyle gadgets. I like them, but wish they were different and would evolve in different ways, not all the same way. Where’s the milspec chonker phone? Like a big pack of cigarettes and with modularity and built to last. Like a mouse-atx format where I can shop for components and at home I have a phone workbench where I can repair and work on my phone that has a nice lens and a sweet hearsink and two giant batteries and a custom sealed port bay with the ports that I want, and it runs straight up linux. This baby is a custom analog camera and holds a roll of 35mm film in a module, has laser radar autofocus, front facing, nice sounding speakers, and can last for a two weeks on one battery charge, but I have a couple extra batteries that I can swap out to either battery port if one gets low without turning it off.
Microphone.
I want that phone too. But if I’m honest and someone created it, it would cost more than flagship phones do now, and I already don’t spend money on expensive phones.