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What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost? (lemmy.world)

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

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For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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

THROUGH THE ACTUAL CARD READER SO THEY DIDN'T NEED GOOGLE/APPLE/SAMSUNG WALLET WHATEVER THE FUCK

That's not an issue, I'm assuming you mean the establishment didn't need it, but just to cover my bases I'll give you both scenarios:

either you're talking about your phone needing an app, which was still the case for the magnetic card thing, but I doubt you were talking about this.
or more likely, you are talking about the place you're paying needing a new PoS for receiving NFC based payment. In this case the issue is from the retailers trying to get another cut of the money by making you go through their app, when they can receive that payment via tap to pay which is also a thing on new cards, I have used them both in my country without any issue because we don't have those ass backwards retailers, there's an issue of the person taking payment being unaware and trying to enable another mobile based payment method instead of just setting it to card based payment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about MST, which was actual hardware on the phone used in conjunction with software to fool card readers into thinking you swiped the actual card, even if they didn't support nft. It was super handy and easy for the shops that haven't upgraded yet.

https://www.paymentsjournal.com/samsung-begins-to-phase-out-support-of-mst-for-samsung-pay/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know, but that's not really an app issue, that would be equivalent to complaining about cards without magnetic strip which only rely on NFC. It's a result of new technology and not some bad idea trying to do things in a different way. It's like complaining about touch screen tech because you can't do things the exact way you used to on flip phones.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's like saying it's ok that they removed the headphone jack because Bluetooth is newer technology? And I know it's not an app issue, I was complaining about a hardware removal? I'm so confused after this comment lol

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

The magnetic thing was only ever a Samsung thing and it wasn't as secure as NFC, NFC works basically the same as the thing you're talking about, its only flaw would be that it doesn't work with the old style card readers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I never claimed otherwise? OP asked what a nifty feature on old gadgets was that's not on newer gadgets, and I said that. That's an old feature that's not on newer gadgets, and it was very handy at the time because very few stores had adopted tap to pay. Would it be AS handy today? Certainly not, but there have still been times I've missed it when a store doesn't have tap to pay.

Yes it's outdated. Isn't that the whole point of everything in this thread??? I just keep getting more confused lol

Edit: to clarify, the phone I had had BOTH MST and NFC. NFC had actually already been around and MST was the new thing at the time. It was simply a cool additional feature.