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Hard to say. I don't phone much, especially these days during the pandemic, without travel, I don't need mobile devices for anything really.

Smartphones are barely useful for anything to me these days. I thought about it and I basically want desktop experience but in a small form factor of a smartphone, because that's what I'm used to using most of the time.

Small portable computer that I can actually program and compile stuff on. Device where I am able to script and modify any aspect of it in case of need, without needing to install appstore apps for every little stupid thing I know how to shell script in 5 lines by combining existing tools. Something small enough that it would be more portable than a notebook, but just as generically programmable, and can host any of the usual scripting languages, databases, servers and tools I may want to run on the go, and already know all too well.

Something on the way between a dumb phone and a general computer. And the phone part would ever be interesting to me only if I could hook it, script it, and control it via some personal rules in a detailed manner. Otherwise just using a dumb phone has way better ergonomics than any smartphone ever had for me.




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