I don’t and I wish I had known about them when they were still a thing.

What other forgotten accessory or innovation in Android history do you wish had taken off or would come back?

  • zeekaran@sopuli.xyz
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    I still have mine! In a drawer. Somewhere.

    Home screen widgets are basically the same thing. The issue with these is NFC doesn’t work unless the phone is unlocked, or you rooted it to allow NFC all the time.

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      1 year ago

      I dislike the hassle rooting has become. I have to weigh the benefits vs. managing my banking apps, etc.

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        Plus, honestly, there’s not as much benefit as there used to be. I used to root so I could install that app that red-tinted the display. That’s been built into stock Android for a while now. I also liked making the navigation buttons smaller and trying different gesture systems, but imo stock Android gestures leave everything else I tried in the dust. Theming? I only ever used OLED themes, and most Android phones and applications have an option for that now. One by one over the last few years almost every justification I had for rooting was rendered moot. Then Android phones started doing that a/b partition thing and it was just too much of a pita for not much benefit