Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017

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randomaccount43543@lemmy.world · 76 pts · 2y (2 replies)

There were 500 smartphone brand to begin with?

Probably small brands. There are lots of them. They mostly import from China with just their company name printed on them.

Kalkaline@leminal.space · 11 pts · 2y

I would have never guessed it was that high. I would have said maybe 50-100 brands.

ik5pvx@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y (8 replies)

I miss HTC

suodrazah@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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Pissnpink@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Just went to their website and it's looks very very cheesy. It does not look like a major company or even a serious one tbh. Sad because the One M8 was probably the best phone I'd ever owned.

ericisshort@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y

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ericisshort@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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nathris@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Google didn't buy HTC. They bought the parts of the company responsible for making the first Pixel phone.

HTC is still a separate entity. They just don't release 25 phones/year now, and all of their stuff is mid-range garbage.

ericisshort@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Thank you. I stand corrected.

penguinsAreRapists@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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joao@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 2y

Did it grow after you bought it?

madcaesar@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y

Because they all follow Apple / Samsung shittery, while being shitter versions of said shittines.

MyFairJulia@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y (5 replies)

I wish LG was still on the market. I would have loved to buy the LG Velvet plus the second screen case. However no carrier offered the phone with a contract.

flossdaily@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The LG V20 was the last great flagship phone that had a removable battery. I miss those.

JokklMaster@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Mine was a piece of junk. It would crash whenever I tried to open snapchat. Super slow in general. Completely stopped working after like a year and had to be replaced.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 2y

All the v line phones were at least still pretty easy to replace the battery on with minimal effort, even if they weren't quick access. The problem became finding new oem batteries.

dmalteseknight@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I have the LG wing and it's great. I am going to really miss it when I have to do the inevitable change....

MyFairJulia@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I had the LG G3, which was the first phone with a 2K display. It was also my first android phone that had a lot of power.

ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y

I dislike that such an enclosed and anti consumer company like apple has completely taken over the cell phone market in the US, and I also hate that it's left me with almost no viable high end android devices besides Samsung. Can't even have a damned micro sd card slot anymore and curves glass edges on phones are stupid and pointless. I've heard they're at least getting rid of that, finally.