Remember when Google owned Motorola and they released two of the best Android phones that had ever been made (Moto X)?
Man, that was great. I miss my Moto X 2014. I wish Motorola still made phones that good. I have a G30 spare phone, and it’s… well it’s a phone.
The Moto X (2014)/(2nd gen) was such an awesome phone with a solid build.
I bought it in 2015 at a huge discount instead of the One Plus 1. I used it till the end of 2019 until the battery gave in & the USB port became useless.
Except for the smaller battery size & ok-ish camera, everyone had praises for that phone. My favourite part was it’s shape & software.
It received the Android 5 & 6 updates even before summer Nexus phones. And the updates were stable. Times were wild back then.
I really wish we had something like u/amputatorbot for Lemmy
I wish lemmy would block amp links flat out.
sorry was unaware of what an amp link is till now.
Same here, just learning about it now
no problem, you always learn something. :)
Just add back the headphone jack and SD card slot if you want to take on the Pixel
Is there something special about an audio jack that USB-C can’t do? And my past experience with SD cards has been consistently poor; prone to corruption and slow-ass writes.
Is there something special about an audio jack that USB-C can’t do?
You can use your headphones without carrying around another adapter.
And my past experience with SD cards has been consistently poor
Get better SD cards?
In addition to what others have mentioned, you also can’t use USBC adapter for the headphones and charge it the same time, without getting another weird, likely flaky, and definitely more bulky adapter.
Slow writes are generally true, I suspect for similar reasons that most usb sticks suck: trade off between price, capacity, longevity, and thermals. I’ve used a 1TB sd card for years withoutany issues, but now have everything on a NAS instead, so the slot sits unused.
USB-C audio isn’t simple. Does the phone have built in DAC with usb pass through (most dont or its poor quality), or do you need usb DAC? Also, not all usb DACs will work on every device.
Sure, yeah, taking on the Pixel without specifying the number of years of OS and feature updates and without GrapheneOS support. Pretty good title for the post
Taking on the pixel 8 without actual software support or hardware features like expandable storage to back them up. Why would you not get the pixel 8, which would get 7 years of support and replacement parts, unlike Motorola. Not wise of the author to make the comparison to the pixel.
I had a motorola phone once and it didn’t have a compass. Yes, I mean the type that shows you where North is. It was a Moto G4. A lot of apps just had seizures because what phone lacks a compass
Curious what apps? Aside from mapping applications. What else do you need a compass for?
One thing I really missed was Star Chart, an astronomy app. Some games like Pokémon Go and Ingress also needed it.
And lineage will support it for the next few-… And they dropped support.
How do you compete with the pixel if Google locks you out of features.
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Grow up bro. You can’t store apps on SD cards anyways, get an external SSD for photos. Headphone jacks usually sounds worse than most external USB dongle DACs anyways.
