Hello again! For my second blog post of the day (after a long few hour interlude of procrastinating…) I’m here again. This time I’d like to talk about something small I don’t really like: modern smartphones!
Let me preface this with saying they’re great technology, and in a lot of ways the best they’ve ever been, especially in terms of performance. But there’s a few things about modern phones that personally just bother me, so I get to yap and complain about them, as this is my blog damn it!
1. Screen Size
The first thing that I dislike about modern smartphones is screen size. They keep getting bigger! Now while the technology improving to allow this is impressive, I just don’t find them easy to use. I tried modifying an old Google Pixel (first gen) about a week ago, and while I couldn’t do what I wanted with the phone in installing LineageOS, the 5-inch screen on it vs. the larger one on my iPhone 15 or in the case the iPhone compared to my previous phone, the Samsung S10e, the smaller phone is much easier to use. It’s nice to be able to use the thing with one hand, and that’s really something I can’t get with larger phones.
2. Camera Bumps and “Thinness”
The camera bumps on modern phones are another small thing that annoy me about modern phones. A great example of this is the iPhone Air, which is advertised as the thinnest iPhone ever. And while at its thinnest point, it is true that the phone is thinner, the phone has a sizable camera bump! Despite phones being thinner, because of this huge bump, they really aren’t! It’s like my phone has a tumor that prevents it from balancing alright on a table. I’d much rather a phone at the same thickness as the bump, with the extra unused space being used for a battery increase. It would improve the phone, while also not affecting usability very much. Phone cases have to be that thick, anyways.
3. Everything is the Same Now
This is kind of a good thing; in a lot of ways, phones have developed to an extent where we know what works and what doesn’t. But a market of Apple, Samsung, and Google releasing phones that are just incremental improvements, with no radical innovation or experimentation is admittedly kind of boring. I’d love to see something new.
Those are my big three annoyances with modern smartphones. Don’t get me wrong, my phone along with all new phones are fantastic devices. But I’d love to see a little bit more of that insane experimentation of the early 2010s again. Thank you for reading, and have a fantastic rest of your day.
