I would include any phone that doesn’t have basic features like a headphone jack or a SD card in the “shitty phone” category. Pixel phones come to mind.
I’ve needed my phone to be water proof exactly once in the 20ish years that I’ve had one and that was in 2006. I think I’ll manage without it. I use my headphone jack and SD slot every day.
When are we going to see bootloader bypasses/vulnerabilities on mobile devices? Being stuck with the vendor’s shitty Android build sucks.
Dont buy shitty android phones then. Gotta get the higher end, big name phones that actually take care of the boot loader. Pixel phones come to mind.
I would include any phone that doesn’t have basic features like a headphone jack or a SD card in the “shitty phone” category. Pixel phones come to mind.
Unfortunately, features that should be standard, like headphone jacks and expandable storage, are now mutually exclusive with sufficient security.
You can have your SD card and headphone jack, or you can be secure*. You can’t have both.
(*security is never a sure, 100% thing, but on a smartphone connected to so many intimate and financial things it’s still your first line of defense)
Uh, Android supports using sdcards, 3.5mm headphone jacks, and also nvme drives. Literally just get any usb-c adapter for your use case.
Id go for an nvme drives over sdcards though.
Using any kind of adaptor for features that have been and still easily could be native is shitty.
Id rather have a good ip68 rated phone with shitty adapters than a shitty phone with native 3.5mm port and sdcard slot, but to each their own.
The removal of headphone jacks or sdcards have nothing to do with ip68 rating. It’s to sell adapters and to make you pay a lot for extra storage
Oh man, FYI you can’t get an IP68 rating with a headphone jack alone unless you manually cover the slot each time.
Asus zenphone 10, for example
I’m sure there are and have been others
say that to my xperia with ip68 and a headphone jack, or my s9+ which had ip68 and a headphone jack, or my s7 that had ip68 and a headphone jack, or…
Source?
I don’t want to have to carry a dongle around to use things that should be built into the phone.
Id rather have a good ip68 rated phone with adapters than a shitty phone with native 3.5mm port and sdcard slot, but to each their own.
I’ve needed my phone to be water proof exactly once in the 20ish years that I’ve had one and that was in 2006. I think I’ll manage without it. I use my headphone jack and SD slot every day.
Word.