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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not all phones listed are equally bad though. Nokia Pureview suffered from bad camera quality but I can live with that. What probably is unlivable is exceptionally short battery life, like on the HTC one. Still, an interesting opinion piece, if nothing else.

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

I had both HTC One's and while the camera on both of them especially the m7 was dire purple durple shite, the battery life was never an issue for me and was when I first started seeing 6hr+ SOT constantly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think they meant the HTC entry in the article, not literally the HTC One phone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, I was referring to HTC Thunderbolt from the article. My current phone itself has relatively low battery life and it annoys me. One would have needed to charge the Thunderbolt phone probably twice a day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

:facepalm:

Completely missed the non-capitalisation on the HTC one. Oops

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yes but that whole line of a few years also suffered many breaking bugs from HMD like media sound being completely borked in an update and crackling and unusable for literally months before they fixed it. WhatsApp voice messages were hell for 4-5 months.

Or the USB port being so low quality that there were rampant replacements needed after as little as 6 months (my own 7.1 needed 5 replacement USB ports in the 2 years I used it. Never had that from a phone before or after)

Or the short battery life after an update second to only the HTC 10's rapid battery drain bug.

The 2018-2019 HMD years were really rough for software as far as phone usability, plus the bad USB-C part number they continued using during that time.

Otherwise they were decent looking, decent performing, cheaper phones with bad cameras.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is really poor of the Nokia as well, though

It also didn’t help that the phone’s in-display fingerprint sensor was bad. In fact, it was reported that the scanner could be spoofed with chewing gum.