My new phone that I got as a gift doesn't have a jack. I'm so petty and frugal about it that rather than ordering a wireless earbud set, I instead ordered the cheapest jack to usb-c dongle I found that wasn't on Temu. It works a charm. I will NEVER buy wireless headphones.

My current phone has a slight camera bump but it has less thickness than the case so that's no problem for me. The thicker bumps are not acceptable IMO. Although I don't care quite as much about that as I do about the hole punch in the screen for a selfie cam. My current phone also has a bezel selfie camera like in the civilized old days.

A lens (the bottom one that hits the ground first) cracked the first week I got my iPhone 16, setting it down on a glass table.

Its a hairline crack, but still.

And it was in a case, but the bump is so freaking big the camera barely sticks out.

Meanwhile my old HTC and Razer phones (and old iPhones) never had this problem... Oh, but I forgot, they were a millimeter thicker and non-rectangles, therefore unusable?

I always have used a case because of this shit for the last 10 years when the camera bump bullshit started.

Don't think it was alcohol that was involved

I hear you but there are limits for the average user. The worst on a smartphone is already more quality than I need to film a meandering vacation video that no one will ever see or to take a photo of my mom with the end of my index finger

I still can't quite believe Apple is going down the folding route, despite all the speculation.
I can't explain, it feels like such an non-Apple move...

Biblically accurate camera.

My god, what even is this monstrosity

an amazing engineering achievement for sure, but i just wonder what consumer wanted thinner phones.

I'd buy an iphone immediately if they gave me a chunky phone that lasted a week on a single charge. now THAT would be an engineering achievement lol

Love 'em or hate 'em, Apple

Sir, this is a Lemmy

It's not really astonishing, that's Apple's marketing speaking. Phones have been thinner than this and the tech that Apple are using now already exists in many phones. Apple are great at selling something as new and innovative, their marketing is what is astonishing.

And if only if it was just 1 mm thicker, or maybe 2, the battery could have been user replaceable.

Until you put a protective case on it and it feels just like every other phone in a case.

Apple is great when it comes to design and aesthetics. Jobs was known for being great at conveying a feeling in his presentations, and their products were always aimed at a "it just works, don't worry about how" crowd. It's no wonder they were copied left and right (slide to unlock, round corners etc., as ridiculous as some of those patents are).

That said, I feel like Android and iOS have come ever closer to equality. Google is locking down their walled garden, both app stores have basically become useless - apps are just custom browsers to webpages now and games suuuuck - with the exception that Apple's walled garden enables compilation and therefore better battery efficiency, which in turn makes phones lighter.

As someone who just updated from an iPhone SE2020, the same body as the iPhone 6, I waited for the iPhone Air, no other iPhone had interest because of weight. This is the new standard.

People keep forgetting how stupid heavy carrying so much battery all the time.

iPhone Air charges from 25% -> 80% in 30min or less.

Camera is excellent and beyond my expectations.

Sure and since there is already a bump for the camera making it slightly thicker for more battery or a removable battery isn't ruining a perfectly flat surface.

at this point we're not talking about good cameras, we're talking about having fucking telescopes built into the phone.

I have a pixel 6a and the camera is absolutely fine, i have taken perfectly good images on it and that's with me specifically removing any sort of automatic software enhancements it might have when running the stock OS.

With modern technology even a phone without a camera bump will be so monstrously good 99% of people are never going to make full use of it.

But they could make the phone thicker.