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Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2 (www.ispreview.co.uk)
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[–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I want a cell phone with a headphone jack, physical navigation buttons, and a rectangular screen like they used to make. At this point, I'll have to go with a flip phone if I want all of those features.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I’m not saying you’re wrong, you can want whatever you want, but out of curiosity, why physical navigation buttons? They’re a point of failure over time, make dust and water ingress more of a problem. While I like physical buttons for some things; power, volume and physical mute switch are all great (I wouldn’t hate a shutter button too) but at least they have the virtue of living round the sides and top of the phone, not the front of the phone like nav buttons, which take up space that could be screen (or just a smaller phone). It’s not like a physical home or back button is actually any more responsive than a gesture based nav. What’s the attraction to them?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    With capacitative buttons and on-screen buttons, there are times where I hit them on accident, which is annoying. The little bit of extra force you need for physical buttons makes this much less likely. I also don't like when on-screen buttons are hidden, and I am worried that I would trigger gestures on accident.

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