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Minimal Phone 2

328 points · 262 comments · nashashmi

  1. dash2 · · focus · HN ↗
    The Adam Smith Institute once added up all the govt spending demands made in a single news program and it came to like 10% of GDP.

    Similarly the comments here: if only it could do all this and

    * On/off button round the back

    * More LTE bands

    * An open bootloader (note to normies this is like saying "have a quantum multiplexer")

    * Different screen ratio

    * Different keyboard layouts

    * Eink screen

    * Bigger battery

    * Be easier to use for someone with long fingernails (hello Nosferatu <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49751114">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49751114)

    * Be lighter

    * Be smaller

    * Have a website without javascript (really)

    * Be cheaper (this one is satire) (no it&#x27;s not)

    Sure guys, why can&#x27;t someone just build you your personal phone at the same price as the iPhone whose development costs are amortized over seval billions consumers :-&#x2F;

    1. c0balt · · focus · HN ↗
      &gt; Be easier to use for someone with long fingernails (hello Nosferatu)

      Long nails are somewhat common as an aesthetic&#x2F;cosmetic choice usually for women (ime). No need to make a joke around accessible design.

      1. iterance · · focus · HN ↗
        A phone that works with long nails is also likely to be far more accessible to people with all sorts of hand mobility or motor control problems.
      2. miladyincontrol · · focus · HN ↗
        Even with short nails, keys that are too shallow or without contour be rather jarring to use.
      3. dash2 · · focus · HN ↗
        I feel no need not to make a joke around it.
      4. luipugs · · focus · HN ↗
        Aren&#x27;t long nails difficult for anything that requires finger dexterity, like in touch screen phones?

        Also the parent comment reminded me of this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VjpcLplkMUs" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=VjpcLplkMUs

      5. theendisney · · focus · HN ↗
        I have one keyboard worn to the point the (now blank) keys have nail shaped holes in them in just the right shape and angle.

        One could extrude keys to be softer so that they errode faster and have the symbol all the way though.

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