Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017::undefined

    • @shashi154263@lemmy.world
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      229 months ago

      Probably small brands. There are lots of them. They mostly import from China with just their company name printed on them.

    • Kalkaline
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      129 months ago

      I would have never guessed it was that high. I would have said maybe 50-100 brands.

  • @madcaesar@lemmy.world
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    269 months ago

    Because they all follow Apple / Samsung shittery, while being shitter versions of said shittines.

  • @MyFairJulia@lemmy.world
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    209 months ago

    I wish LG was still on the market. I would have loved to buy the LG Velvet plus the second screen case. However no carrier offered the phone with a contract.

      • @JokklMaster@lemmy.world
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        39 months ago

        Mine was a piece of junk. It would crash whenever I tried to open snapchat. Super slow in general. Completely stopped working after like a year and had to be replaced.

      • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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        29 months ago

        All the v line phones were at least still pretty easy to replace the battery on with minimal effort, even if they weren’t quick access. The problem became finding new oem batteries.

      • @MyFairJulia@lemmy.world
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        29 months ago

        I had the LG G3, which was the first phone with a 2K display. It was also my first android phone that had a lot of power.

  • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    19 months ago

    I dislike that such an enclosed and anti consumer company like apple has completely taken over the cell phone market in the US, and I also hate that it’s left me with almost no viable high end android devices besides Samsung. Can’t even have a damned micro sd card slot anymore and curves glass edges on phones are stupid and pointless. I’ve heard they’re at least getting rid of that, finally.