What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost? - eviltoast

For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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    11 months ago

    Real buttons that you can feel. Hence could use them without looking at the screen.

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        11 months ago

        I rented a Corolla to driver Uber with. What I did for liking songs on spotify was memorize where I’d have to rest my hand in terms of landmarks outside the screen on the dash, so that just dropping my finger down would tap on the heart to like a song.

    • Tóth Alfréd@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      If you have an Android phone then you can enable a feature called TalkBack that reads up screen content and lets you control your device with touch gestures, so you can use the phone without having to look at the screen.

      This combined with wireless earbuds is a real game changer for cheating in school.