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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    I am sure it’s because phone companies don’t want to deal with designing, manufacturing, design defects, warranty claims if it fails, etc.

    I do wonder if it can’t be done better with programmable magnets, locking one of those in place from the bottom of the device might be interesting.

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            10 months ago

            Aah cool, interesting

            Edit: let me pick your brain regarding them as it seems you know more about them, is it feasible? What I described that is