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That is (at least for me) all I would want from a phone. The headphone jack missing from all modern phones always has me fuming, not to mention lack of micro SD slot.

Yes but you're gonna only give yourself 64gb of internal storage??? We want better for you!

This is just wrong I'm sorry

Oh, maybe. The way it's drawn though it seems like it could be intend to flip up to act as a front facing camera

Fully agree, but why not just for go front facing camera? I think selfies were more fun when they came at horrible angles😂

It may be designed for you specifically, but it's also coincidentally what I'd consider basically a perfect phone design. I would LOVE to have a phone like that to use!

I'd imagine the hypothetical phone would be rugged enough to not need a case

I would buy this

You had me at de-googled OS

gib dis cat money to make da good phone!

You're so based man. On all accounts.

...is it cool if I post this to hacker space chats?

@frame.work can you guys move into the mobile market already ? /aff

@fairphone.com ya wanna jump onto an idea?

Same damn

This is fascinating, thank you for sharing!

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Add gorilla glass touch screen and I'm sold

May I introduce you to the Cat S61 ? It doesn't tick all your boxes, but it feels like a decent starting point. Also, according to the manual, the sim tray doesn't need the pointy thingy.

"5 inch display" is all i needed to see, I'm in!

Was just about to go looking for just this. It's *so damn annoying* that Google took this great concept and buried it.

What’s fun is apple sent a survey asking what people want… Easily swappable battery would be my insta buy for any phone

YES YES YES I NEED THIS SO BADLY YES

Oh this is the most beautiful thing ive ever seen

god I miss good phones.

doesn't hit everything there obviously but i find Ulefone has at least a decent chunk of the same design philosophies

This is perfect. You could use the charm loop to hang a little drawing stylus or headphone reel, too.

throw in a wireless charging ring on the back and i'm in.

Im fine with it being a lil thiccer if need be as well.

So. When the JoPhone dropping?

Not designed for everyone? I bet most people I know if jot everyone, would pay large for it. He'll, if it has good on-boarx accessibility features then I'd stab someone for this design.

BRING BACK CHARM LOOOOPS

Check out the Fairphone, the version available in the US is De-Googled even!

Love this! 64gb internal storage would normally be an issue but the SD card slot easily solves that problem. And my god I miss tactile buttons 😩

Add a stylus and I'm in

Absolutely love this! Maybe Graphene OS? Nice de-googled privacy-focused Android distribution

Honestly I love it! IMO some of the worst things that happened to phones was the removal of expandable storage, and the headphone jack. I feel like the rubberized corners are kinda brilliant.

CHARM LOOP!!!!

ngl this heavily reminds me of old phones god i miss old phones to a degree

Ares, make this phone and my life is yours

Y'know a lot of this is actually not too desimilar to the S4 Active. Wish they made a new revision of it some day.

*came for goblins and "crap guides"* *Stayed for the absolutely amazing taste in things as a human being*

The dreaaaammmm. 🙏

I got a new phone 2 days ago and I'm sad it wasn't that one

If the clear plastic back is big/thick enough to hold a pokemon card then this is literally perfection. We need a kickstarter

I meant $1000+

Heck yeah, bring back cell phone charms! I made this rabbit one. Your cellphone designs are wonderful, JoCat. There's a few degoogled phones like the Brax phone and the Librem phones that have this personal, modular design philosophy. I have GrapheneOS on my Google Pixel Pro 10 and I love it.

I WISH MODERN PHONES HAD LOOPS FOR CHARMS SO BADLY

it hurts

Ok but can we get a bigger one for those of us who can palm dinner plates?

I wish we could apply this same design philosophy to cars too, or everything else for that matter. no more trying to make things look futuristic. Take what works from modern tech, throw out what doesn't in order to make a practical product, and for the love of god, stop relying on touch screens

There is currently the fairphone which is kinda in the direction you are thinking but it the real first modular design that got promoted was an google phone that never came out

64gb is the only bit i dont like. 256gb at least

The clear plastic back is PERFECT my CD player in high school had that and it was my favorite thing to put pictures of my favorite bands in their UGH I miss analog personalization sometimes

If you were a politician, business exec, journalist etc who might be at risk from targeted attacks where physical or proximity cyber threats are a concern then yea, i wouldn't recommend using older devices, even feature phones, and you probably shouldn't use bluetooth in any capacity.

I've been looking into GrapheneOS as a google-free option. Might be worth looking into for you too

You can probably hack most of this out of a pinephone or fairphone, minus the camera thing

Love the idea, but I would be afraid to look at the price tag of something like this if it doesn't have the usual "discounts" from big corpo resource chains and spyware.

I hope we get more devices like this in the future. I miss tactile buttons, I miss things not needing constant updates that end up causing them to become obsolete.

The rubber corners are a rough idea to me because most rubbers will age poorly and fall off. Itd be better to have the rubber bumpers part of the replaceable back. The camera is also a mechanical weak spot. Cool but easy to break. Glad you're having fun dreaming up phones tho.

You can get a phone case with a strap loop. I mean sure one on the phone would be cool but I basically never see a caseless phone these days

10/10 would purchase

Do you have enough YouTube fun vouchers to put this into production, because I want one?

I think that's actually the point!

samsung galaxy s4 active

Add a physical QWERTY keyboard somewhere in there and it's perfect for me. God I miss the Droid 2...

Buttons + headphone jack + no ai + look cool I say yes, yes and yes again

also, rubber corners are a small thing, but god what i would do to have that.

Reminds me vaguely of the self-repairable HMD phones with swappable parts and expansion pins, even offered a toolkit so that the community could come up with their own extra features utilizing said pins. Didn't seem to go much anywhere unfortunately; apparently no longer sold much anywhere

Unihertz has some designs that come close to this, but yeah I can't think of any that fill all the check boxes The one thing I'd want to add is a slide-out physical keyboard because fuck we need to go back

I think ideally you'd want the camera flap to flip down as it would be working against gravity, if the hinge goes then you'd be wrestling to keep it up whereas if it goes down it wouldn't even need as stiff of a hinge. Tbh, why the heck aren't these on all phone cases already?

Now if only this could be made but even if it did I'm stuck bumming off my moms phone plan and she's a diehard apple fan.

Understandable

I mean it essentially necessitates you buying headphones to even hear your stuff, plus people who put stuff on in the background

Ah kk

i do not think this is a good phone

Omfg I need this! There needs to be a way to make custom phones for people.

It's like an xkcd phone, but actually good and MEANT to be that way!

This kinds of posts remind me of Google Block back in the day. They had planned to make modular smartphone, using a main circuit panel and "blocks" to swap in and out stuff like batteries, cameras, more RAM, etc. Then it went... *POOF*

i think this is exactly what people mean when they talk about shareholders and enshittification

I am feeling so called out by your designs.

love this so much, all i also just wish for is a tactile phone keyboard again...

Other than the hinge up camera, (and maybe the degoogled os? Unclear) this is probably broadly possible by way of building something that'd snap into the pins on the back of an HMD fusion?

"No mandatory updates" - I would highly advise against this one. It took a long time to get Android to a point where security updates were a regular thing across all device manufacturer. The problem is feature releases vs security updates. Separate the two, and it would be probably what you want.

Everything else about it is exactly what I want for a smartphone nowadays!

It’s just a sign that our modern culture sucks that there’s not a thriving market for custom made electronics like phones and even PC building is a niche skill rather than a job. People used to get hand made jackets and things, but now it’s hellishly hard to find someone to do that.

I'll be 100% honest. I would buy that phone. This is an OPTIMAL design. No all tactical. Everything is easy to use outside (sim card and such) this is what we need ! face thing no need i use digit print but doesnt work since my fingers are always battered or cuts due to work.

Let me know when it hits production

i would do unimaginable things for this phone to exist

hear me out. what if... TWO charm slots. on EACH CORNER (i use a wrist strap and also want charms but they take the same slot...)

as long as it _fits in a goddamn pocket_ i'll be happy with it

Ok but I actually love this design

I have this little cynical thought that while capitalism is about selling shit, the ending overall goal is control. So, yes, it would be an excuse to sell more shit, but that would be selling what you want, not what they want to sell you.

Since most phones have cases now, I just bought a sturdy case with a kickstand and a charm slot. Now i have a Gear5 charm on it.

It's beautiful and I want one

The charm loop got me all excited...

Minus the Low Storage, Physical Face Buttons and Removable Battery, this looks like it could pass as a Sony Phone.

Only 64 gigabits ):-(

I miss charm loops! The rubber slots on the phone protectors don't last long if you try looping charms through those.

Excellent design! My only criticism is that it would probably be better in the long run to get a front-facing camera. That hinge WILL break, and it WILL be a pain in the ass to fix. Kinda the same reason why you don't see the clam shell design nowadays...

Yes absolutely! Love the design. But because tech companies are clueless and out of touch they’ll get some dipshit “everyman” for their market research instead and we’ll end up with the smartphone version of “The Homer.” It’ll have a rotary phone interface and a film camera.

This looks great. I know the Fairphone has a bunch of these things (being user-repairable de-Googled android phone) but I wish they had actual tactile buttons as well.

JOCAT!!!!! PRODUCE THIS PHONE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!

The hinged camera seems like it'd be the first thing to break, but it does scream "user-repairable" so that probably wouldn't be as big an issue as initially thought. I like it too

I've had a fairphone 3 for a few years now and I love it

Oh how I miss the little spot for phone charms.