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

  • @Bytemeister
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    1511 months ago

    IR blaster.

    Ad-Hoc wireless networking. I miss it, was useful back in the day if you needed to share files with multiple people without a wireless router at a location. Most laptops don’t support this anymore. To be fair, I’ve only really wanted to use it maybe twice in the last 10 years.

    • Natanael
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      411 months ago

      WiFi Direct has taken the place of that but very very few apps use it and there’s compatibility issues

      • @Bytemeister
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        111 months ago

        Wifi direct only works between two devices. Sad.

        • Natanael
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          111 months ago

          The API supports more than 2 simultaneous connections, but the built in sharing tool in Android probably doesn’t