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Surely you mean the slider style of the Xperia X1 and not the more common folding style of the LG

Well that was designed by one of the GOATs - Ferdinand Porsche

Yeah, same, can’t get my friends to quit WA

I used three Meta products:

Whatsapp, Facebook Marketplace, and Instagram. I’ve completely gone off Insta, I only really used it to see posts and reels my friends sent me.

I don’t really know an alternative to WhatsApp and Marketplace that I can use. I’m very careful to not interact with any Facebook advertisements on Marketplace though.

Yeah, it’s about having the choice

I’d argue it’s a bigger moral choice than no usb-c display out. And the $8 dongle doesn’t resolve it. I find that I use wired headphones while charging my phone about 30% of the time, making 30% of my time using them either vastly inconvenient or time that I can’t use my wired earphones. The good vs evil comes in when you think about why they removed the jack - which was only to sell their wireless buds. There is no other reason that stands any questioning.

And it’s a phone that I would’ve considered if it had one.

I could list dozens of reasons but at the end of the day it comes down to having the option and making the choice, instead of having it made by some company. And as someone who repairs their own phones, 3.5mm jacks really don’t take a lot of space. It’s definitely not enough to make a substantial improvement to battery size. You question the point of having them, I question the point of removing them when they were (and still are) a universal standard with not many downsides.

3. No 3.5mm jack