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[–] Extrasvhx9he 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly miss LG and their weird gimmicks. They were kinda refreshing

[–] JCreazy@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

I've always wanted to play around with an LG Wing.

[–] HidingCat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yea, they'd be the last holdouts for a headphone jack too, I'm sure.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

99% of phones are extremely similar, I don't think anybody needed that many brands. Even now it sort of boils down to Apple vs Samsung vs Chinese brands for most people.

[–] Eonandahalf@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

There were more than 500 brands of smartphones? 🙃

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's almost like wealth is consolidating.

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I miss HTC. To this day, I've not heard a better speaker than the HTC One M8.

Everywhere I went people who heard me play music on it were amazed that a mobile phone could sound as good as a proper iPod dock/Bluetooth speaker.

Phone speakers since then have regressed, it sucks :-(

[–] PlatinumSf@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

...? My iPhone speaker blows my old m8 speaker out of the water by a long shot. This might just be nostalgia or your current pocket pal might just have a trash speaker.

[–] macallik@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I think part of the reason is that because phones are now in the 'matured' part of the marketing cycle. There's a smaller and smaller noticeable difference in performance between a $200 phone and a $1000 phone, and so companies need to compete on smaller and smaller profit margins, and against very inexpensive import brands.