• the_swagmaster@lemmy.zip
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    9 days ago

    Slightly concerning given Motorola is owned by Lenovo, a huge Chinese company… Hopefully the Chinese state doesn’t get involved with the project somehow.

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    10 days ago

    I love my razr 2024, but I’ve been patiently waiting for graphene to support a decent non-google phone. Looks like I’m about to get the best of both worlds!

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      7 days ago

      A functional NFC payment check would be welcome. Hoping Motorola would have the pull to implement that either by getting Google Wallet’s blessing or forcing them to. I really don’t see why it is not considered a monopolistic practice since it gives Googles official OS an unfair advantage.

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        7 days ago

        That’s the thing - Android is not Googles official/private OS. They just help maintain it. In their distribution, they ship it with Google products. The EU is strongly against this practice, why there is a EU version without preinstalled apps. The maker of the phone then has to solve the problem of how to solve certain problems. Samsung solved it by providing their own wallet solution. Motorola would have to do the same.

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      10 days ago

      Yeah that’s a worry eh. My phone I have now has a phenomenal camera. It’s the main reason I bought it.

      I’m quite happy to have zero AI integration and pay a premium for an amazing camera.

      I want this to be great but I worry they are going to have to make too many compromises AND it will still be expensive.

      This is obviously all conjecture so I’m looking forward to seeing the specs

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        8 days ago

        Don’t expect anything fancy in the beginning. They will get there eventually, but only if we incentivize them initially by backing their efforts with our wallets. Or in others words, we will have to make some sacrifices in the beginning like in any good long-term investment. It’s not like owning such a phone excludes you from having a decent camera. You’ll just have to buy an external add-on camera or an entire separate camera.

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    10 days ago

    Here’s hoping they’ve got a larger version of phone for whatever they end up with. The price gap for the pixel 9 XL (i got big hands, i couldn’t type reliably on a base model size) was kinda nuts

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      9 days ago

      Wasn’t the last thinkphone from 2024?

      Would be nice, but the last think phone had mediatek instead of Qualcomm so I don’t know if that will be the case (mediatek seems a lot harder to make custom ROMs for and there aren’t too many).

      But modeled after the first think phone would be awesome. USB 3.1, wireless charging, decent camera for its time, but no SD card slot or headphone jack…