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Minimal Phone 2

328 points · 262 comments · nashashmi

dash2 · 1789777048 · 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://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751114">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751114)
* Be lighter
* Be smaller
* Have a website without javascript (really)
* Be cheaper (this one is satire) (no it's not)
Sure guys, why can't someone just build you your personal phone at the same price as the iPhone whose development costs are amortized over seval billions consumers :-/
1. ssl-3 · 1789809873 · focus · HN ↗
  * Headphone jack for special music
  * SD card slot to store that special music
  * Multiple physical SIMs because eSIMs can't be trusted
  * Multiple eSIMs because physical SIMs are dumb
  * LoRa for meshtastic because the network can't be trusted
  * Drug scale for weighing drugs
  (Actually, just put the drug scale on there and great teaming throngs of people will immediately forget that they ever owned an iPhone.)
  1. dotancohen · 1789811426 · focus · HN ↗
    > Headphone jack for special music
    Actually, this phone does have a headphone jack.
  2. tosapple · 1789822908 · focus · HN ↗
    drug scale for drugs?
    you've got it wrong,
    that scale is for measuring transactions in Au.
    rickydroll · 1789855910 · focus · HN ↗
    Why would you measure transactions by the distance between Earth and the Sun?
    ssl-3 · 1789874951 · focus · HN ↗
    Drugs?

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