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Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter::Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung's profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.

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[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 207 points 1 year ago (8 children)

each new phone is more expensive, with less functionality.

hover on the touch screen? gone

iris scanner, gone

headphone jack? gone

air pressure sensor? gone

humidity sensor? gone

ir blaster, gone

meanwhile I get charged out the ass for storage space.

Why the fuck would I want a newer phone?

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Don't forget the SD card slot missing, S20 was the last one that had it. I still don't know what to get after that, just because of the missing SD.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

mine can take an sd card, but only if i take out one of my sim cards, of course

[–] Sukisuki@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I got an A52 just for that reason. Still using it. I wanted a S20 but they were sold out and I was told they stopped making it.

That pisses me off the most

[–] Afrazzle@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Also removable batteries gone

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine is actually very easily removable. The device overheats so much, that it's completely annihilated the glue, and now the back panel is only held down by the case c:

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Be honest. You tried microwaving it, didn't you?

[–] FranklinsBeard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

A very nice man on the internet told me it would charge it

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I may as well have

[–] placq@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It should be back in 2027 in EU at least

[–] Apollo_Katelo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That's supposed to be coming back by EU law in the next few years. So we have that at least.

[–] updawg@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Don't forget color changing led notification light. You could pay with your phone at old card readers using MST. Oh yeah, and the S9 had a blood pressure sensor.

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait air pressure sensor and humidity sensor? Are you talking about their watches?

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 year ago

no, i am talking about phones. this stuff used to actually be in phones

[–] Screeslope@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Samsung Note 10 and others have a barometric sensor, though I'm not aware of any app using them. Which might explain their removal, sadly.

[–] egeres@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a barometric sensor in my phone?!

[–] FlyingPiisami@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like using the app phyphox to look at all the different sensors on my phone

[–] egeres@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh boy this is a weird tool hahah, I love it!! Can't thank you enough for this recommendation, it always bummers me how wasted are most phones in terms of potential, when I used to fantasize about futuristic portable computers as a little boy I though that people would become a short of cyborg that would do "magic" with their computers. Turns out, phone became the "squary-glassy attention sink machine" xd

I was thinking on accessing the pressure sensor via termux and then export that data to a csv file with some python script! phybox looks ver interesting to gain control over my devices 😗

[–] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

news to me too, and I'm replacing it on Monday lol.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

TIL I had a phone with barometric sensor.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Air pressure is (was?l in pretty much any phone.

[–] Justly0250@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They want to keep competing with and copying Apple/iphones, yet they keep forgetting about what makes Android phones so appealing to the people who select these phones over iphones.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

At least Samsung has proper video out through the USB port. Unlike the trash that Pixels depend on, such as Chromecast. What kind of GPU doesn't have either HDMI or displayport (through USB-C like Apple, Samsung, OnePlus, Steamdeck, laptops, etc. ) out in this day and age?

[–] dezmd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Holding tight on to this Samsung Note 9 until it finally dies. Battery is still 'ok' for now, will last a full day.

Snapdragon, not that pos Exynos

Finger print reader on the back is the only way to do it. Wife has had several newer models with built in front side fingerprint reader and it has been ridiculously unreliable by comparison.

Iris Scan

Face Scan

Headphone jack

Micro-SD Card

USB-C

Wireless charging

NFC with payment support

And even the stupid pen thingy that I use maybe once a month.

Not 5G but the 4G LTE is usually more than fast enough even for streaming when using as a hotspot.