All phones have been boring for years if not decades.
It’s got a screen on one side and a camera on the other! Yay!
Wait till you see the new one, it’s got a screen on one side and two cameras on the other! Wooo!Boring is fine. I don’t need my phone to be exciting.
The headline should have been about reliability. The author had to replace the first demo device, and experienced stuttering on the replacement. Will HMD continue to support the device and outfits? Will the maker community adopt the device and start getting creative with the options? Or will this end up in the drawer of abandoned hardware with the minidisc player and active 3d glasses.
Modularity and flexibility is great. Boring is acceptable. Unreliable is not OK.
Hell, I want boring. Boring means it’s stable, reliable.
Exactly, I’ll take boring over exciting if it means my phone will be more reliable over time.
It’s the same reason that won’t go for a foldable phone. They look cool, really cool, but moving parts means breaking parts - and if they break, they’re bloody expensive to replace.
Moto was semi modular. We all know how that ended. If hmd can get it right, where modules are supported throughout the phone lines (within reason, of course), then great. But I suspect capitalism will get in the way.
I’d wait for an actual reliable data driven review from notebookcheck and GSMarena.
