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[–] 137 points 8 months ago (14 children)

That's good news. I hope it's a budget device with a plastic case, SD card, IR emitter, notification LED, and headphone jack.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    GOS already confirmed it's shipping with a flagship snapdragon SOC so it won't be a budget device. Maybe a future model though.

    I think most of those other features are a long shot as well. The GOS team hasn't really specified any preferences for non-security related features and I doubt Motorola would suddenly change their hardware design/direction.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I doubt Motorola would suddenly change their hardware design/direction.

    That could be a reason for gaining the SD card and headphone jack. They already have a few phones with those features

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I’d rather have it be a bit more mid to upper range, I want a nice processor and decent cameras

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I don't have any use for a "nice processor". I have a basic one and I don't have any problems with it.

    As for cameras, I think it's pretty clear at this point that it's all about the software. The Pixel was winning blind smartphone camera tests with >10 y/o sensors.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    e-ink screen! i adored the motorola-f3 with the led segment screen

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    My crackpot theory is that we're 10 years away from e-ink displays becoming the new hot thing. The clarity of looking at something that isn't backlit is great. If they can solve refresh rate and resolution, we're there.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Clarity can also be achieved with a 4k panel. Once your panel gets over 600ppi it's gonna blow an eink screen out of the water at its own game. Those phones were barely ever made only Sony even tried. Probably due to battery life, or maybe noone realized what they do to the reading experience.

    Either way we're gonna improve battery life and maybe even get microled before eink ever gets competitive with emissive screens. Someone is bound to rediscover that you never truly needed eink for comfortable reading, just a significant increase in resolution.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    For people who don't watch videos in the phone, e-ink already offer nice refresh ratios. There are also a few with dual screens.

    By the way, there's also the nxtpaper technology, which I'm pretty curious about, but I never used it to know if it's really good for the eyes

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Don’t forget when you could listen to fm radio using the headphone jack as an antenna.

    I thought that was going to be the future, but it’s easier to sell music from your music store when you kill am/fm radio.

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