What is the future of smartphones now? They reached their peaks and is getting stupid now with notches...

What is the future of smartphones now? They reached their peaks and is getting stupid now with notches, no headphone jacks and so on. All good companies like LG, Oneplus are riding the Apple cock and the only company that is sticking to their own aesthetic now is Samsung. Discuss.

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I personally am going to go back to where it all started by buying an Energizer E10 and getting rid of my smartphone. I'm tired of this shit.

I plan on doing the same as well.

You forgot about Xiaomeme. They've been doing a pretty good job aestheticly wise. Just check their Mi Mix phones.

OP here. Leaked images of the OnePlus 6. So ugly.

The first Mi Mix is the one that started the edge to edge display trend. Xiomi is quite innovative gotta admit.

Wtf even are half of those brands? All chinkshit.

Huawei, ASUS, LG are famous.

>headphone jack
>no notch

Lmao what a joke.

S9 has the best looking front of any phone right now. The back looks bad though, and the software's still dogshit as usual.

S8 and S9 are god-tier phones.

All China phones, except LG. The Chinese have no will of their own. They just want to be like Apple because it's popular.

And Chinese phones have the biggest market share

Docking stations

That your place?

>That your place?
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4 clicks m8

*saves the industry*
No need to thank me, kiddo.

The notch will be removed in another year or two as smart phones begin putting the camera completely behind the AMOLED panel. It's already been shown that CMOS sensors can see through AMOLED screens and transparent AMOLED screens already exist so soon we'll have notchless phones with the same sensors and cameras on the front hidden under the screen.

>No IR scanner

Blame people buying those phones. All those companies wouldn't even bother with putting notches and removing headphone jacks if it wasn't because people are still willing to buy such phones

seriously, retractable camera is such a basic idea that i don't understand how it hasn't been implemented since like a decade ago

Please be fake.

I like it :3

Moving part
More expensive to manufacture
More fragile

> most of those brands are chinese
there it is, your problem

2 of those brand are major worldwide player

I want them to release a refresh with modern hardware. having metal body would be nice too.

>Samsung will be the only based smartphone maker in your lifetime
fucking hell

Is this real? What the fuck is wrong with manufacturers?
I can hold out with my moto x pure for at least another year, but every year that passes the phones get worse and worse.

Alright Sup Forums, I'm just going to ask here because this question doesn't warrant it's own thread. What is a decent mid tier smart phone that would work on basically any plan? I don't need anything fancy, it just needs to work and not have bloatware.

We all need to stop feeding the bullshittery and give our money to blackberry so they can save us all. No wonder everybody produce shit if you buy it.
It's the same thing as amd vs nvidia, amd did better for like 10 years and they almost went bankrupt.

Moto G5 Plus/G5S Plus

>Moto G5 Plus
Looks like a solid phone. Plus, I can get one on Amazon for fairly cheap. Thanks for the suggestion.

Brace yourselves. Leaked images of Blackberry's new phone code named "Ghost". It'll be released in the Indian market exclusively.

be careful not to buy the amazon-ad version though, it might be a few dollars cheaper but the ads are annoying and not worth it

People buying those are dumb fags who can't afford to buy Apple

Why is it so difficult, even in 2018, to get a phone with a good battery, headphone jack, expandable sd card, and removable battery for a low price? I don't care about having a great camera or a top of the line SoC. I literally only use my phone for Sup Forums, irc, and ricing (KLWP).

I would eat ass for a refresh of this phone.

This. In 5 years or less we will be at the point where phones will all be just a continuous peice of glass front to back with an internal metal frame. Basically all that has to happen is putting front sensors and probably the fingerprint reader under the display. Then Samsung can just use their edge meme display and have it wrapped around on the top/bottom of the phone instead of just the sides. Idk why anyone would want to upgrade when we are so close to cellphones being inovated on to their final potential with regards to what they already do now.

Forget removable battery cause it's a dead feature now and the rest is there but expensive. Get the S8. It's cheaper now and has all of the things you mentioned.

sure, in china.

Also there is the assurance that a camera isn't facing you all the time

>Ctrl+F
>No mention of Sony
Shit thread for a shit board.

And NSA, Chink spies not being able to spy on you

Sony is gay now. Their new phones have no headphone jacks, ugly design and high prices.

>OnePajeet
What did you expect?

It doesn't even have physical keyboard so whatever

Physical keyboard is a waste of space for phones.

Xperia XZ1 compact owner, new Xperias look like shit. Shit fingerprint reader placement and no headphone jack.

IMAGINE

I M A G I N E

UNIRONICALLY USING A PHONE THAT SAYS "LEAGOO" IN BIG LETTERS RIGHT ACROSS ITS FACE

>L E A G O O
LMAO CHINKFONES

I hope they all get sued into oblivion.

How is the performance and battery?

>eww my phone doesn't look trendy :(((((

snapdragon 835 with android 8.0 so performance is great, easily can get 2 days of battery life with moderate use

ikr, also
>DOOGEE
>ULEFONE
This is a large part of a reason why I avoid chinkphones. The names are just embarassing.

yes, but
>curved
>edge
>non-standard display ratio
At this rate I'll stick with my flat S7 until I die.

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>the fucking notch

GPU names on mobile confuse me is an Adreno 540 better than a 630?

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>scanner
Ya serious nao?
Ya cashier or sumfin'?

If it weren't for the Z2 Force losing its headphone jack I'd say it's almost exactly what I want. It has SD storage, metal body, the module system effectively let's you change batteries even if the internal battery has gone to shit. Fast internal storage now that newer gen phones no longer use eMMC. Also cheap as shit because it's sold so poorly, snapdragon 835 phone for ~350.

As for the future of phones, I could see that if a wireless display standard with high bandwidth were introduced and Microsoft could introduce legacy support on an ARM API that your phone could be a universal device. The big hang up right now with that is you have to dock your phone, meaning when your working you can't use your phone as a phone

Is it IR scanner or IR blaster?

There were phones that experimented with a similar idea but it got dropped.

Z2 Force had a very ugly design. The front looks horrendous

>the only company that is sticking to their own aesthetic now is Samsung
Not true, but you know, while I can understand not wanting a notch, overall just fucking simply don't buy smartphones for their aesthetics.

No, there is no need for new aesthetics, just a rectangular display and the usual buttons will do.

If someone was able to implement pic related but as actual buttons it would be endgame. If anyone doesn't know about this, it was an effort to develop what I just described but they're simply bumps that can rise up from within the screen and then retract to leave the screen flat again.

You can put a case on it or not fucking care (suggested).

It's not like anyone fucking cares about what smartphone you have, right?

Jesus what the fuck

Nah, swiping is the ideal method of typing.

>popup ads now make buttons in the shape of enlarged dicks appear on your screen

It's blaster, dude.
Like Star Wars, you know.

They could figure out a way to do duel speaker without taking up any space

I mean it doesn't have the curved glass so it looks a little like an older phone. But it's perfectly functional and the fingerprint scanner is the best I've used.

All modern phones are just glossy black slabs, only so much you can change

>swiping
gay

Comfy for short one handed typing like this post
Sent from my Samsung

>tits too

Propably OLED screens with 120Hz, docking stations and fingerprint readers under display.

Anyway I would love to see more money going for new battery technology development

Leaked dell monitor that 'may' be inspired by the courageous tech company Apple.

This would actually work on a 16:10 monitor. You could still waitch all your movies in the correct aspect ratios. The notch is where most menu bars are anyhow where nothing is there except a long stratch of menu bar. It just needs to be shorter.

S8 active

What in the flying fuck is such a big deal about a notch???

You have to dedicate a portion of the screen to the camera and sensors. So, rather than just completely create a dead spot atop the phone, they condensed it all to the middle-top and allowed some small space available for notification icons.

If this shit bothers you, you're a fucking autistsupreme.

The issue is how they're utilizing it in apps. It should never display anything but the status bar and black itself out in immersive apps. That way it's objectively superior to a bezel.

>another episode of apple takes a shit and literally every competitor eats it with a grin on their face

Oh would you look at that

Pretty much but Jonny "I such cocks" Ive strikes again.

This is literally the most beautiful phone ever created.

holy shit that looks ugly af lol

Fucking hell, just get wireless headphones you whiny little bitch. The more people move to wireless technology, the better it will become.

>just get another thing you get to charge also it sounds like shit
Kill yourself you fucking iToddler.

>just get another thing you get to charge
Charge when you go to bed and it lasts all day, if not two days
>also it sounds like shit
Except it doesn't. There are plenty of fantastic wireless headphones. I'm using Bose quietcomfort 35s and the sound quality is perfectly acceptable.

Most of them aren't fully US compatible

>ifag
>also buying bose shit

pottery

>I dislike perfectly functional and capable products because I'm an angry,overly-emotional manchild who's identity is defined by consumer electronics
nice

>I like being misinformed about my purchases and just gobble up whatever tech companies throw at me

>buying products that work well, and serve the purpose they are designed to and which I use them for makes me misinformed
Holy shit you're such a massive faggot.

>implying there aren't better products, that would work even better while costing way less

Even LG? holy shit..