They aren’t necessarily silly, but these options were definitely quirky, especially LG Wing.
This is very subjective and almost no research low effort article, I think.
waterfall displays
Finally someone agrees with me. I swear it felt like I was the only sane person around. The curved edges made no sense design, use, or otherwise.
I managed to mostly skip that BS by going with phones that didn’t use it, but I still had the occasional misstep whenever using someone else’s phone to check out their photo or whatever.
Frankly, I’m happy to see it become less mainstream.
I bought an LG Wing on eBay for cheap after LG left the phone business. The intent was to upgrade from my previous phone. I managed to tolerate it for only a week before crawling back to my old phone.
Man I’m surprised Samsung didn’t dominate this list. My galaxy S4 was filled with so many garbage features that I never used.
Samsung and their garbageware was like 50% of the reason why I switched to iOS for my main phone.
It was jokingly called LagWiz for a reason
Samsung is really good at shipping software garbage software. Also known as bloatware.
I like the term shovelware.
It also a nice term… but for some reason bloatware term exactly describe the issue behind the problem.
Wait there is a phone with a temperature sensor? That actually seems pretty useful. I’d love for phones to start adding more sensors you can access.
There’s several companies that make phones with built in thermal cameras.
I might have to look those up before the next phone change
Caterpillar used to make the C60 which had a thermal camera
My pixel 8 pro has one. It’s kinda helpful when determining when to open the windows of my home
They should all have two, one for battery and one for the CPU.
There’s a lot more than just two temperature sensors inside your phone. Your screen has sensors, there’s a few chassis sensors, your CPU has probably 30+ inside of it etc.
The pixels is external which is unique I guess.
But that won’t tell you how hot your water is
Your phone is waterproof, isn’t it?
There is no real silly, just how limited our imagination is.
I honestly thought cameras on phones were silly and I think the first gen camera phones were rubbish. Never did I know and maybe nobody knew that mobile web/web 2/social media would be as popular as it is and would probably suffer without them.
I have an LG wing somewhere. Cool phone, but really heavy and the second screen is not useful
this too doesn’t sound that silly silly
We also had a year when Google decided that short-range radar was the future of interacting with your phone, so it crammed a Soli sensor into the top bezel of the Pixel 4 series. It was the culmination of five years of work and was designed to let you skip songs, silence phone calls, and snooze your alarms with nothing more than a lazy wave.
i tried this app for a while ☞ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.jarsilio.android.waveup but it didn’t work as well :/
I still have this built into the google nest I have. It was neat when my 1 year old toddler could pause music by thrusting a hand toward it, but it would often activate when just walking by so it’s disabled now.
