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What discontinued feature do you miss from phones or other technologies? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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For me its the 'Knock Code' that LG had on their phones (I really wish LG still made at least the V series phones)

Basically there was a four-square area and you set up a sequence of where you would tap to unlock the phone. That set of squares was only shown when you set up the code

Then, to unlock your phone, you would tap those areas in the sequence you set up (even with the screen off).

Fingerprint readers are nice, but I really do miss the knock code

Edit: did find this article with a way to do the knock code, but if done wrong, could brick your phone I guess.

Plus, article is from 2014. When I looked at XDA's info on it (they also being the developers) it looks like development on it is over, but individual modules may or may not still be supported by their devs

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The absence of notches

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

but the notch doesn't eat into your screen space. You get more screen with a notch, as the screen is expanded upwards into what would have been the bezel, just not where the camera is. I'd much rather take the extra screen space on the same size device, even if it means changing the screen's shape.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My monkey brain wants symmetry, a notch prevents that. And for privacy purposes, small notches make it harder to neatly cover the camera

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Buy new phone
Switch to 3-bottom navigation
Hide display cutout

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

But then, monkey brain loses screen space

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Agreed. I keep the notch hidden at all times so effectively I just moved my status bar away from the screen.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And you'd have even more screen space if the notch was filled in and people didn't screech like howler monkies because their phone has a tiny bezel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Samsung handles it nice where you can hide the cutout on a per app basis, and doing so doesn't move the status bar down but keeps it where it is. With the amoled display it looks like a normal status bar with the notch or pinhole camera not being obvious.

I'm not sure why some phones don't give that option, since if you do they shift down the status bar below the notch instead of just turning it black. Such a simple software solution.