All those upvotes are just saying “Damn, someone thought of this comment first”

I never understood the use case for it. Not saying it’s not there, but I don’t get it. I can only see a few where it would even be usable at all, and even then they seem like a super rare situation.

One, to charge another phone that doesn’t have access to the right cable (fucking Apple just thought that was cool for a while I guess- total fucking morons-actual braindead) in which case I can only see it useful in desperate situations. But personally I don’t carry a second device around that would need it or be able to take advantage of it. I am just hearing in this thread that the Pixel Buds can do this which I hadn’t heard before, but lately I haven’t really used them for long periods anyway, so admittedly I’m not the target. I just don’t think the target is that big.

And I almost always have a charger somewhere accessible that would negate the point anyway.

But qi2 seems just marginally more convenient at best, but not really impactful. But plopping it the charger instead of fiddling to find the end of the cord and insert it into the phone, while potentially dealing with kids or pets or anything that makes it hard to take a second it would be a little more convenient.

But if the 2 choices, a little convenience far faaaaar outweighs a parlor trick. Am I missing something? The reverse charging (even while iPhones were all wireless charging) just seemed like a compensation for not being able to do that. And now it seems like they’re finally able to do it for whatever reason. So taking away the pity feature to give us the real deal is a good thing it seems for almost everybody.

I’m the end though, they really need to go back to chunkier phones that can just do everything rather than all these super skinny ones that you have to pick and choose what it will and won’t be able to do. Make it fatter and give us both (both = qi and reverse), and a headphone jack, and swappable batteries and extra SD slots, and swappable backplates that aren’t made of glass and breakable.

The last time I had a wireless chargeable phone was the Galaxy S3. And I’ve been on Nexus/Pixels since that device. And it wasn’t even that way, I used a 3rd party add-on to even get that. And it didn’t have magnets. Back in my day…

Fades out while shaking fist at sky

Not sure why you specified “previous” phone. I don’t tend to carry that around at all. The battery lasts a few hours if the screen stays off, said screen is cracked and it runs nothing “fine”. Everything haha and glitches around. It remains useful as a cat TV mainly.

Assuming that’s some kinda typo, the current one runs it much better, but getting the correct card when my hand is full is very unreliable, and the UI is cramped to hell since it is a smaller screen but can’t be scaled down as much due to readability. It does come in handy when the deck is at home though.

I can’t wait. I’m no expert player, I only have around ascension 4 done for each character. But it’s because I’m too greedy lol.

I’m more talking about peeking itself doesn’t let you see everything. As in, everything is frozen in place while peeking, so if I’m checking enemy HP, it usually blocked by whatever card is selected, and you can’t back out of the selection you’re peeking through, so you’re stuck. That is just a problem with the game itself though, not the controller support.

But selecting a card should be visually more obvious, at least for non attack cards. I can’t count how many times I’ve selected a card intending to consider my move but accidentally playing it because I didn’t see it was already selected quickly enough. Now that’s maybe my fault for going too fast sometimes, but a better visual indicator would be nice.

Also, defaulting the enemy selection to the one I targeted last instead of the one closest to the left would also be super helpful.

I only play on the deck now since I found out about the recent Intel microcode issue the hard way, and I can’t afford to replace the 2nd and 3rd most expensive parts of a computer. Fixed disability income means I won’t get that done until I get my next job.

Yesssss

I just wish Slay the Spire worked as well. I mean it works, but you can tell controller support was definitely an afterthought. But those 2 games are probably most of my played hours on it.

And a USB-A wouldn’t hurt. Having just one port means you’re charging and that’s it unless you have a dock or splitter handy. Crazy.

I was using it with a 3070 just fine. Not necessarily sold on it, but so far so good.

I mean it’s dead, (for now) because my CPU died to the fate of belonging to the wrong Intel generation.

Now after finding a lottery ticket I will buy a new board and CPU, and a new GPU next in priority (since it does still work, but I won’t be buying Nvidia or Intel anymore.

Removable battery is #1. My old Galaxy S3 (not even my first phone-yes I’m old) has absolutely godawful battery life but I had I think 4 total batteries around to make sure I could always have it even on a heavy use day. That sucked, but at least it was doable with a really easy process (peel off plastic back, pull out and swap battery, snap the backplate back on).

I keep an old phone around and sometimes use it to play like a video for my cats to watch if they’re laying on my bed when I’m not in there. But it has to stay plugged in because it loses the first 20% in about 15 minutes.

And that phone in particular (a pixel 2) is particularly a pain to replace the battery in the first place.