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Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017::undefined

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[–] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There were 500 smartphone brand to begin with?

[–] shashi154263@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Probably small brands. There are lots of them. They mostly import from China with just their company name printed on them.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 11 points 1 year ago

I would have never guessed it was that high. I would have said maybe 50-100 brands.

[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] suodrazah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Pissnpink@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just went to their website and it's looks very very cheesy. It does not look like a major company or even a serious one tbh. Sad because the One M8 was probably the best phone I'd ever owned.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Because they all follow Apple / Samsung shittery, while being shitter versions of said shittines.

[–] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish LG was still on the market. I would have loved to buy the LG Velvet plus the second screen case. However no carrier offered the phone with a contract.

[–] flossdaily@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The LG V20 was the last great flagship phone that had a removable battery. I miss those.

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

Mine was a piece of junk. It would crash whenever I tried to open snapchat. Super slow in general. Completely stopped working after like a year and had to be replaced.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

All the v line phones were at least still pretty easy to replace the battery on with minimal effort, even if they weren't quick access. The problem became finding new oem batteries.

[–] dmalteseknight@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have the LG wing and it's great. I am going to really miss it when I have to do the inevitable change....

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

I had the LG G3, which was the first phone with a 2K display. It was also my first android phone that had a lot of power.

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

I dislike that such an enclosed and anti consumer company like apple has completely taken over the cell phone market in the US, and I also hate that it's left me with almost no viable high end android devices besides Samsung. Can't even have a damned micro sd card slot anymore and curves glass edges on phones are stupid and pointless. I've heard they're at least getting rid of that, finally.