I’ve used Xperias for years, they definitely make high end ones. Wish they would bring back flagship compacts though, the Z3c was probably my favorite.
didnt HTC latest phone got sd card and 3,5mm back?
I guess you could edit it to have them crawling out of the grave? Though a bit of a stretch to call that phone high end.
I also think Mordechai and Rigby should be HTC abd Google, given they sold (most) of their phone team to Google to help with the Pixel phones (and to highlight that Google also removed SD slots… RIP Nexus)
Only issue I have is the curved glass screen. My butterfingers would not get along. That and I want to see how long their software support lasts since I’ve heard it was spotty in the past.
There needs to be a law mandating expandable storage in phones.
The market will regulate itself, the consumer decides with his/her/* money, feel free to start your own company producing it (with your own money) \s
Sorry for that.
I know this is sarcasm, but I still have to also point out that companies literally conspire with each other to undermine the consumer’s ability to choose. Remember when Apple removed the headphone jack and Android vendors mocked their decision for all of one year before immediately following suit? That’s 100% intentional and planned from the start. They know we want to vote with our money, which is why they do everything they can to make sure we don’t have that choice.
That has nothing to do with a conspiracy, it’s just cheaper. If they can get away with it, they’ll do it.
Reality is, most people give relatively thought to their purchases. They just buy “the new iPhone” or pick an Android that seems reasonable to them. And even those who do ostensibly care, often enough only care about specifications. More cores, more nits, more camera.
I don’t really see it as a conspiracy. What seems to happen is Apple does something like remove the headphone jack. Apple users essentially have to accept it as they are locked in and don’t have any choice in the matter. Plus you have the fanboys that have an amazing ability to rationalize anything Apple does. Everyone else sees that Apple got away with something, and they follow suit.
Losing the SD slot would still be annoying but not as big of a deal with everyone wasn’t also copying Apple’s model of massively overcharging for storage upgrades.
When SD card is the only criteria for a ‘high end’ phone
It’s not. Maybe I worded it poorly. I mean that Sony is the last smartphone manufacturer where the high end line got MicroSD slots. The others removed them. (Google doesn’t count, they never got one)
another advantage of the glorious fairphone
My fp4 has been very disappointing so far tbh, after a year or so of using it it’s slow unresponsive and the mic doesn’t work
It’s not supposed to do that. My FP3 got unresponsive after a while as well. The trick was to open it up and gently tighten all screws.
I have no issues like that. Maybe your microphone is damaged. What has been bugging me is the top speaker sounds terrible.
I have experienced that the microphone is in a weird spot on the left border of the phone, frequently where my fingers are placed when calling. So maybe check if you’re covering it too!
Seriously, I’d also recommend to unscrew the screen and screw it back together. For me it made wonders. And if this also doesn’t bring you anything, you should text support - in the end you have a warranty for a reason, right
The few advantages you mean, wouldn’t mind the FP if they’d use a processor that wasn’t years old and at least performed better than the Tensor G2 (A processor highly regarded as absolute crap)
