I use a 10 year old phone because it runs RUclips, does calls and texts, and even has a headphone jack AND an SD card slot. I get laughed at at work but I have no shame.
That's great! Honestly, when I dug out my old S5 for this video I was like "Why did I ever stop using this?" I should have just used it until it died. Though, technically, the earpiece speaker didn't work all that well. It got very muffled after I dropped the phone into a bucket of used motor oil (yes, that happened), but it got a lot better after I washed it in warm, soapy water (yes, that also happened, lol). But it was always a bit hard to hear people after that. So once the battery finally turned to crap, I decided to replace it rather than get a battery.
My trusty galaxy s7 has been running for 6 years straight under daily usage and is still running great without even ever changing the battery. The phone has been used in the extreme heat of summer, running gps on a mount above a smoldering dashboard, to the extreme colds of winter where it was stored in my pocket while skiing which gets it freezing cold because the wind penetrates through the pocket. Even in the -30C cold the phone worked fine whereas every one else's brand new Iphone wouldn't even turn on because of the voltage drop on the battery. I have dropped the phone hundreds of times albeit while using a quality uag case, its been in my pocket all day exposed to lint and silica and the back cover doesn't even have a single scratch on the glass. Now they source all their parts from cheap manufacturers and the crappy chinese made cells die off after a few hundred cycles or cant work under extreme temperatures. It's time these manufacturers start going back to their old ways, where quality and durability were at the forefront where now its just planned obsolescence garbage. I love the size of the s7 allowing for one handed use, the physical home button, the headphone jack, the great camera, software reliability, no bloatware etc.
I still keep my old lg l90 even though its outdated for any regular use. It has headphone jack, sd card slot and removable battery (the original still works perfectly fine because i keep it separate), downgrading it to android 4.4.2 makes it perform better and has more software features. i will never get rid of it because its a reminder of what we lost. It's hard to vote with your wallet because most of the decisions are made by people who don't care and we have no control over that. I now have a moto g100 and i can't find any replacement within its price range - every alternative seems to stick to one of 5 garbage chipsets so they don't cut into the market of higher end phones that coincidentally don't have a card slot and headphone jack.
Hello, Sony flagship smartphones have Micros SD slot and minijack, not to mention professional image and video editing software on board, if you need just mini jac - Asus Zenfones have it as well as chinese phones for gaming - Asus Rogphones and ZTE Redmagic
The keep pissing in the consumers face. Samsung doesn't even include a charger anymore. Why would they give up on offering all of the features which built their brand loyalty and turn their brand into knockoff iPhones. If my only choice of beverage is Cola I'm buying Coke not Safeway Select Cola flavored Beverage.
Their excuse when they took away SD Card slot was that it slow down the processor and the phone itself. What a joke and the Headphone jack? well not enough space for whatever they need the space for. You are not the only one that value Headphone jack and SD card slot. It's just people get tired of fighting or not even in the mood to fight against Samsung and other companies that does this. I wish people would boycott them until they start listening to us and give us back what we want and stop messing with it and telling us lies as to why they took it away.
The raised bezel thing is a big one too. The Sony is basically flush. I tend to use flip covers these days, so it isn't as big of a deal, but on most smartphones these days the display sits well proud of the edges of the frame. This guarantees that if you sit the phone face-down, it's sitting on the glass. And if you drop it, it's almost guaranteed to hit the glass.
@@bigtb1717 I don't have time for flip covers, they force you to use both hands in an operation that should be single handed. If I could get a fully rugged smartphone with a 4.7" display, I'd be in heaven.
I don't know if I'm missing the point of smartphones or not. I just dug out and turned on my iPhone to test something and the battery had self-discharged in the space of a week or two. It has no memory card slot, and unlike just about everything else, I can't mount it as a disk drive on my Linux box, so I have no way of transferring data to/from it. I used someone else's smartphone to do some video recently; the camera is positioned so close to the edge that it is difficult to hold without obscuring the lens. I watched a video by a filmmaker recently where he was saying about how you don't always need an expensive dedicated camera and sometimes an iPhone is more than satisfactory... well, it may be satisfactory but the one he had cost over £1000 and was similar in price to my Panasonic video camera. There's no way I'd spend £1000 for a 'just in case' camera. Smartphones do have an important role to play in broadcast journalism, but sometimes they just seem silly. I was recently at an event where a professional TV journalist was using a smartphone. There was so much stuff dangling off it that I just thought... Why Bother? I've never really had anything to do with smartphones until I got a secondhand iPhone for free a couple of years ago, so maybe I'm just out of touch.
I was fully against smartphones for a long time. I needed a phone to make calls. Why would I want a slab of glass with poor call quality (some of the early smart phones had terrible call quality) instead of a nearly indestructible flip phone? Eventually, it seemed like phone companies wanted to push you into a data plan, so they stopped carrying anything but the poorest quality flip phones that had terrible call quality, weak signal and glitchy operation. So I eventually gave in and got a smart phone. Since then I have really started using it for a lot, often work related. Opening a document, electronically signing it and sending it where it needs to go immediately, right from my phone while I'm out in the field? Very convenient. Not to mention being able to check email and stuff like that. I also use it to listen to audio books and podcasts. Plus, it's nice to have a quick and easy way to jump on an internet browser to look something up once in a while. Still, I'm sure I don't use my phone for nearly all the stuff some people do. Other than RUclips, I'm not on any social media, so I'm not using the phone for that. I also don't really have a lot of apps on my phone. I have one that has common electrical formulas/calculators and pinouts for many common connector types, a network scanner app, and a few other utilities, but I don't really play games or anything on my phone. I really have very few apps. I take photos and videos once in a while because it's always with me and it's convenient, but I'm not rigging out my phone to use it as major video camera or anything like that. It's more just for spontaneous stuff. If I go on vacation, or I go somewhere for the specific purpose of taking photos or videos, I bring a camera. Overall, I'm not hopelessly tied to a smartphone, but I do appreciate many of the capabilities. But I know people who do all their banking and even their taxes online, and they do email and other social media as much, if not more than I do. They have RUclips channels they post videos to, they take lots of pictures, watch Netflix, etc. And they don't own a computer, tablet, or a camera. They just have a smartphone. They say they don't know why they'd even bother with a computer or a camera. They can do everything they need, well enough, with their phone.
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The S5 and especially S7 still feel so modern somehow, like how did time pass so quickly?
I use a 10 year old phone because it runs RUclips, does calls and texts, and even has a headphone jack AND an SD card slot. I get laughed at at work but I have no shame.
That's great! Honestly, when I dug out my old S5 for this video I was like "Why did I ever stop using this?" I should have just used it until it died. Though, technically, the earpiece speaker didn't work all that well. It got very muffled after I dropped the phone into a bucket of used motor oil (yes, that happened), but it got a lot better after I washed it in warm, soapy water (yes, that also happened, lol). But it was always a bit hard to hear people after that. So once the battery finally turned to crap, I decided to replace it rather than get a battery.
@@bigtb1717 I've always used headphones for calls anyway so I don't care that the earpiece speaker died cycling home in the rain once.
My trusty galaxy s7 has been running for 6 years straight under daily usage and is still running great without even ever changing the battery. The phone has been used in the extreme heat of summer, running gps on a mount above a smoldering dashboard, to the extreme colds of winter where it was stored in my pocket while skiing which gets it freezing cold because the wind penetrates through the pocket. Even in the -30C cold the phone worked fine whereas every one else's brand new Iphone wouldn't even turn on because of the voltage drop on the battery. I have dropped the phone hundreds of times albeit while using a quality uag case, its been in my pocket all day exposed to lint and silica and the back cover doesn't even have a single scratch on the glass. Now they source all their parts from cheap manufacturers and the crappy chinese made cells die off after a few hundred cycles or cant work under extreme temperatures. It's time these manufacturers start going back to their old ways, where quality and durability were at the forefront where now its just planned obsolescence garbage. I love the size of the s7 allowing for one handed use, the physical home button, the headphone jack, the great camera, software reliability, no bloatware etc.
I still keep my old lg l90 even though its outdated for any regular use. It has headphone jack, sd card slot and removable battery (the original still works perfectly fine because i keep it separate), downgrading it to android 4.4.2 makes it perform better and has more software features. i will never get rid of it because its a reminder of what we lost.
It's hard to vote with your wallet because most of the decisions are made by people who don't care and we have no control over that. I now have a moto g100 and i can't find any replacement within its price range - every alternative seems to stick to one of 5 garbage chipsets so they don't cut into the market of higher end phones that coincidentally don't have a card slot and headphone jack.
Hello, Sony flagship smartphones have Micros SD slot and minijack, not to mention professional image and video editing software on board, if you need just mini jac - Asus Zenfones have it as well as chinese phones for gaming - Asus Rogphones and ZTE Redmagic
when you started talking about headphone jack, i wanted to comment that you can buy sony xperia, but you arleady did lol
The keep pissing in the consumers face. Samsung doesn't even include a charger anymore. Why would they give up on offering all of the features which built their brand loyalty and turn their brand into knockoff iPhones. If my only choice of beverage is Cola I'm buying Coke not Safeway Select Cola flavored Beverage.
Their excuse when they took away SD Card slot was that it slow down the processor and the phone itself. What a joke and the Headphone jack? well not enough space for whatever they need the space for. You are not the only one that value Headphone jack and SD card slot. It's just people get tired of fighting or not even in the mood to fight against Samsung and other companies that does this. I wish people would boycott them until they start listening to us and give us back what we want and stop messing with it and telling us lies as to why they took it away.
Raised bezel, drop, dust, and water resistant. SD card slot, 3.5mm jack, single hand operation. You'll pry my kyocera from my cold, dead fingers.
The raised bezel thing is a big one too. The Sony is basically flush. I tend to use flip covers these days, so it isn't as big of a deal, but on most smartphones these days the display sits well proud of the edges of the frame. This guarantees that if you sit the phone face-down, it's sitting on the glass. And if you drop it, it's almost guaranteed to hit the glass.
@@bigtb1717 I don't have time for flip covers, they force you to use both hands in an operation that should be single handed. If I could get a fully rugged smartphone with a 4.7" display, I'd be in heaven.
I don't know if I'm missing the point of smartphones or not. I just dug out and turned on my iPhone to test something and the battery had self-discharged in the space of a week or two. It has no memory card slot, and unlike just about everything else, I can't mount it as a disk drive on my Linux box, so I have no way of transferring data to/from it.
I used someone else's smartphone to do some video recently; the camera is positioned so close to the edge that it is difficult to hold without obscuring the lens.
I watched a video by a filmmaker recently where he was saying about how you don't always need an expensive dedicated camera and sometimes an iPhone is more than satisfactory... well, it may be satisfactory but the one he had cost over £1000 and was similar in price to my Panasonic video camera. There's no way I'd spend £1000 for a 'just in case' camera.
Smartphones do have an important role to play in broadcast journalism, but sometimes they just seem silly. I was recently at an event where a professional TV journalist was using a smartphone. There was so much stuff dangling off it that I just thought... Why Bother?
I've never really had anything to do with smartphones until I got a secondhand iPhone for free a couple of years ago, so maybe I'm just out of touch.
I was fully against smartphones for a long time. I needed a phone to make calls. Why would I want a slab of glass with poor call quality (some of the early smart phones had terrible call quality) instead of a nearly indestructible flip phone?
Eventually, it seemed like phone companies wanted to push you into a data plan, so they stopped carrying anything but the poorest quality flip phones that had terrible call quality, weak signal and glitchy operation. So I eventually gave in and got a smart phone.
Since then I have really started using it for a lot, often work related. Opening a document, electronically signing it and sending it where it needs to go immediately, right from my phone while I'm out in the field? Very convenient. Not to mention being able to check email and stuff like that. I also use it to listen to audio books and podcasts. Plus, it's nice to have a quick and easy way to jump on an internet browser to look something up once in a while.
Still, I'm sure I don't use my phone for nearly all the stuff some people do. Other than RUclips, I'm not on any social media, so I'm not using the phone for that. I also don't really have a lot of apps on my phone. I have one that has common electrical formulas/calculators and pinouts for many common connector types, a network scanner app, and a few other utilities, but I don't really play games or anything on my phone. I really have very few apps.
I take photos and videos once in a while because it's always with me and it's convenient, but I'm not rigging out my phone to use it as major video camera or anything like that. It's more just for spontaneous stuff. If I go on vacation, or I go somewhere for the specific purpose of taking photos or videos, I bring a camera.
Overall, I'm not hopelessly tied to a smartphone, but I do appreciate many of the capabilities.
But I know people who do all their banking and even their taxes online, and they do email and other social media as much, if not more than I do. They have RUclips channels they post videos to, they take lots of pictures, watch Netflix, etc. And they don't own a computer, tablet, or a camera. They just have a smartphone. They say they don't know why they'd even bother with a computer or a camera. They can do everything they need, well enough, with their phone.