And the 2024 Golden Lemmy for best Android device goes to...

Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldmod to Android@lemmy.world – 89 points –

The Fairphone 4, as nominated by @be_gt@lemmy.world!

As promised, you will be receiving 1 Lemmy Silver, and of course, bragging rights.

But, we also have an honorary Golden Lemmy award, which goes to...

Every Android device that is not the Samsung Galaxy S22+, as nominated by @OpenStars@discuss.online!

You get 1 Lemmy Silver (and bragging rights) too!

That's it for this year's Golden Lemmy, folks!

(Nomination thread is here for future references.)

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Dear lemmings:

If this is the Golden Lemmy Awards, then why does the winner recieve a Lemmy Silver?

Curious.

Well, since it's an imaginary award they can imagine it being made of gold, chocolate or even Cocaïne. The only limit is their imagination !

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Holy shit, anti-S22+ actually pulled it off!! What an exciting time to be alive! :)

I donate my (honorary) award 🏆 to the real winners who made it happen: the people who upvote and post new content daily across this whole wonderful community:-).

And to Samsung I dedicate a different type of award 💩 for making a good fraction of the functionality on their phones so heavily dependent upon their privacy-intrusive tracking measures... except who am I kidding it is mostly my own fault for purchasing one of their devices in the first place! 🫠

Now we can all go read 👓 about that Fairphone, bc ngl it sounds kinda awesome!? 😎

What a beautiful award acceptance speech.

They should get you to host the Golden Globes next year.

I've seen a lot of people on the web being interested in acquiring a small size phone and/or a dumb phone and during my research I found about this Xiaomi subsidiary called QIN that have recently dropped what basically look like the best dumbphone "qin f22 (actually runs android unlike Nokia garbage dumbphones) " and the best small size phone (5 inches ) "qin 3" on the market.

I haven't bought any of the above since I can't currently afford any of them but I know quality when I see it, and I doubt a new company that only sell such niche products would want to destroy its image by sending bad products.

I am not affiliated in any way, just wanted to share the end result of my several days long search for a dumbphone to play java games again .

I'm hoping this becomes real someday. https://smallandroidphone.com/

The qin3 ultra match a lot of his demands for under 220$ but it's lacking quite hard on some others( mainly camera ). What he's asking for is a premium small sized phone but since it's a niche product with limited sales, making a premium quality varient would make it a niche within a niche, so I highly doubt we'll see it one day.

From the guy behind pebble? Neat

There have been some small phones that run Android over the years. These days it’s less common I suspect because the devices are used for so much more these days. Having more of our lives involving the mobile smart device makes a larger screen just more sensible.

But over the years there have been some. I have a few in my collection. I think Nokia has had some. Also a couple of Sony Ericsson Xperia models I think. Some others too.

But current tech I just don’t think manufacturers want to bother because I don’t think the potential customer base is good enough to be able to make it worth making.

Not a dumbphone, but Unihertz makes some actually small phones - like ones that can fit completely in your palm. These things are great to have as a backup phone, or something you can take with you while you go out for a run or the gym.

https://www.unihertz.com/collections/jelly-series

Wow, even the soc specs are great. Tho the screen being 3 inches is way to small for my shitty eyes, but the otherwise they look like solid phones.

I am actually interested in the keyboard of the dumbphone to, as i said before, play java games the way they were designed to be played since touchscreen is garbage.