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What discontinued feature do you miss from phones or other technologies? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me its the 'Knock Code' that LG had on their phones (I really wish LG still made at least the V series phones)

Basically there was a four-square area and you set up a sequence of where you would tap to unlock the phone. That set of squares was only shown when you set up the code

Then, to unlock your phone, you would tap those areas in the sequence you set up (even with the screen off).

Fingerprint readers are nice, but I really do miss the knock code

Edit: did find this article with a way to do the knock code, but if done wrong, could brick your phone I guess.

Plus, article is from 2014. When I looked at XDA's info on it (they also being the developers) it looks like development on it is over, but individual modules may or may not still be supported by their devs

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Physical buttons. Sometimes an app or the OS itself will fuck up and not show you the home or back button for example.

I would miss headphone jacks but any phone worth buying still comes with those... for now

[+] Pulp -6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Blame the shitty devs. Headphone jacks are not the solution anymore, we have USB-C & Bluetooth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

but I can pick up my phone with the coard from my headphone jack. can't do that with USBC :(

[–] Pulp 0 points 2 years ago

Sure you can

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe USB-C can be a viable alternative because it's so polyvalent, but one way or the other i want my stuff corded. If you don't want to deal with cables, you have to deal with batteries, and i hate batteries, they make stuff more expensive, more complicated, less durable, and heavier.

Also bluetooth and other wireless technologies are still unreliable, whereas you plug a cable into a socket and it's almost imposible for it not to work.