• deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      9 months ago

      Worse game but more expensive.

      Legitimately, if they were still making them with half as much focus on content as they were in the first 5 generations, I’d have no issue paying for the “same game” with new Pokemon every few years.

      It’s that the price went up but the actual quality of the product went down. GameFreak used to give a shit and put real effort into them, then the lead director left and was replaced with the current one, and they entered this spiral of formulaic mediocrity every 2 years with increasingly diminishing returns, all the while slowly chipping away at player agency.

      Thank god for ROMhacks.

      • HathawayEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Evolved from rom hacks to full fan games. Pokémon infinite fusion is the best Pokémon experience I’ve ever had.

  • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    9 months ago

    I’d pay extra to have all 4:

    • OLED display
    • Expandable storage
    • Headphone jack
    • User-reaceable battery

    Why is it too much to ask for these in 2024? My Samsung Galaxy S4 had all these a decade ago. And the pictures I took with that phone still look good today.

    car pic

    Here’s one of my car, shot from the landing of my second story apartment in Dec 2013.

  • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    9 months ago

    That is why you don’t update yearly…

    If I wouldn’t have updated my old ass iPhone 6s back in the days to Android it would have been the iPhone 11 perhaps, that is a huge ass upgrade.

    Are there even big changes within the iteration releases of, let’s say Google Pixel and Samsung S line?

    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      The Pixel 6 brought 5 years of software+security updates; the 8 brought 7 years. The 6 started using semi-custom Samsung soc. 8 brought new security features at the hardware level. Beyond that, minor changes afaik. 6 Pro brought true zoom (I really appreciate it), there’s a few features that need the 8 soc for “ai”, variable refresh rate on the 7 (I think), higher+lower vrr on the 8, etc.

      I upgrade regularly: whenever an interesting feature or security improvement is made available, or if a family member needs a new phone (I get the new one, they get my used). Nexus 4, 6, 6P, Pixel 2 XL, 3XL, 5, 6 Pro, 7 Pro, 8 Pro. Toss in the Nexus 7 gen 1 and 2 (cellular) too, and my days of having a conversation with a tablet held to my ear for calls. Family is all pixel 6 or newer right now, and shouldn’t need to upgrade for another 2.5y.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      9 months ago

      I’m on a five year old iPhone XS MAXXX and it runs like a brand new phone, and the battery lasts all day. I’m only considering upgrading because I’d love a 120hz screen and USB-C.

      • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Yeah definitely I think they became better altogether since the iPhone X, thus less need to upgrade yearly, or even biyearly.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          9 months ago

          I agree with ya but I still used my 5s for 4.5 years! They replaced my battery for free out of warranty cuz the batteries were shit on that gen, though. The power button got all fucked up after that too, but I used onscreen controls to mitigate that. Woulda been cool to have that fixed too, but at they point I wanted a bigger screen.

  • vexikron
    164·
    9 months ago

    I have a $200 crap phone with a headphone jack.

    Does everything I need a phone to do.

    Also with an analogue, cabled headset, it can pick up radio stations.

    Headset cost $20 bucks. Not amazing, but shockingly good bass compared to a $20 dollar headset from when the first iPhone came out.

    Nope, the phone is not made out of titanium.

    I have dropped it plenty of times and its fine, no screen cracks or broken buttons, hell, I even accidentally dropped it fully into a bath tub once.

    Turned it off, popped the back cover and the battery out, left it alone for 2 hours to dry out.

    Its fine, no damage whatsoever.

    I entirely fail to see why absurd processing power is necessary for anything beyond some mobile games, which are crap.

    I have some ok free games 2D games, but theres only so much you can do with a touch screen.

    This $200 piece of crap can run 99% of what 99% of people use their phones for 99% of the time.

    Only downsides are no games, no stupidly high resolution cameras.

    EDIT: I have been a software developer, database admin/dev, data analyst. Stereotypical tech worker in many ways. Never fucking understood why getting a 1000+ phone every year or two made any sense to anyone.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      9 months ago

      No games and no good camera aren’t small issues. I suppose the no games part can be minor, but not having a good camera means you have to carry an actual camera around if you want good pictures, and that’s quite inconvenient unless you’re a photographer.

      • vexikron
        2·
        9 months ago

        Well the camera on this thing works fine for anything you would post and or view on social media resolutions, as well as basically any computer monitor under 4k.

        If I was really interested in taking high resolution photos at 4k or higher, I actually just would get a proper camera with better ergonomics, ability to use a tripod, etc.

        Cant really see why the vast majority of people would need that kind of resolution anyway unless theyre doing professional work.

    • Rolder@reddthat.com
      2·
      9 months ago

      I’ve got an older iphone which ticks all the same boxes minus the stupid port it has. Only reason I would have to upgrade would be for a better camera. I’ve started painting 3D models recently and this thing takes shit ass pictures

  • Johanno@feddit.de
    2111·
    9 months ago

    No you don’t understand… It has “new features” that other phone manufacturers had for years or even Apple had in the past.

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
    31·
    9 months ago

    Both Apple and Samsung have turned into massive turds. Phones have gotten enshitified just like everything else.

    I don’t want your shitty ai, I need an SD card slot.

  • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    99·
    9 months ago

    Surprised to see Lemmy up voting a meme with an actual white supremest in it.

    Seriously crazy people still share JonTron shit.

      • gmtom@lemmy.world
        9·
        9 months ago

        The guy on the bottom panel is Jon Jafari who runs the YouTube channel “jontron” a couple years ago he went down the alt-rught rabbit hole, said some yikes stuff on twitter and ended up doing a long debate with another youtuber called destiny because of some comments he made in response to Steve King talking about immigrants.

        On this debate he ended up digging himself deeper, bringing up the white genocide/great replacement conspiracy. Saying the most well off black man is still more likely to be a criminal than the poorest white man, claimed we’ve ended discrimination in the west, courts don’t treat minorities differently, Mexicans are trying to retake American land, and that Irish and Italians were never discriminated against because they were always considered white.

        It was a very much trump style rambling incoherent rant that kind of just showed he doesn’t really have a defined set of beliefs but had just been caught up in the right wing disinformation machine. I personally wouldn’t call him a white supremacist, but he certainly believes a lot of the same stuff as they do.