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Why is thinnest ever placed in such high regard? Have you seen how ridiculous the new iPad Pro looks when the Pencil is attached to it for charging?
I think I'm in the vocal minority in that I really don't give a shit about thin, especially if it affects performance, repairability, or battery life.
I got a pixel 8.
I'm really enjoying it.
But the camera doubles the thickness of the phone where it is.
And the case I have for it just gave up, and made the whole phone+case that thickness.
I'd have liked the actual phone to be that big, have a bit more battery - maybe even replaceable battery, a 3.5mm jack at stuff like that.
At some point, things get too thin to hold and use comfortably. I think the Nintendo switch highlights this, whereas the steam deck is much more comfortable to hold.
What case is that? I was thinking of getting the Pixel 8 and was looking for a case like you describe but didn't find any
It's a quadlock case, so it kinda makes sense for it to be thicker. But previous phones/quadlock combos haven't been as thick
In 2007 I had a Gateway convertible computer. This thing was like 14 or 15 inches screen size, it had to have weighed 5 pounds with the battery attached, closed and without worrying about the battery's additional thickness it had to have been an inch and a half thick. The thing is, it worked fine.
The Dell Inspiron that replaced it has one of those soft shell lithium batteries that inevitably bulge and stop the trackpad from clicking, there's a fan that scrapes its housing because of how tight the clearances have to be...all so the thing can be about a half inch thick? Why?
They're trying to beat paper