• Wrench Wizard@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      I miss when devices came with infrared transmitters… Also it had a mini sim & built-in Bluetooth/wifi at that time, wow.

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        10 months ago

        Xiaomi phones still come with infrared, mostly used to control TVs, fans, AC units, etc.

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      10 months ago

      iPhone undeniably brought the technology forward by years, even if only in terms of software. I don’t even like iOS, but it seems disingenuous to compare iPhone to those, or the Samsung tablets, or anything that came before it.

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        While apple did improve the design, they mostly made it “cool”. Before that they were “nerd” phones. The Motorola V3 was a “cooler “phone at the time until the iPhone came out.

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        10 months ago

        I’m with you, but it seems like this post got taken over by passionate haters