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>Checking the time requires pulling the whole slab out.
Get a smartwatch, the Galaxy Watch 4 Classic can be had for $50 these days.
>For listening to music you have to hope your Slop 13+ Extreme Turbo still has enough physical buttons left along with the option to actually bind all the media controls to them, otherwise you have to pull it out and fuck with the touchscreen, and even if you don't, it's stupid oversized.
My Airpods have pressure sensors for changing songs and noise cancelling level
>The built-in cameras these days can admittedly be pretty good, but the shape makes it feel like shit to use for actual photography, and you end up with 3+ fucking lenses on the back and a stupid bump (muh ultrathin), which will be there even when you won't be taking photos of anything you need to look particularly good, and that's most of the time for most people.
I rather just have my phone with a 10x (230mm) zoom built in. Compact cameras with better zoom have extremely small 1/2.3 sensors, which is a third the size of the main sensor on my phone. Compacts with larger sensors either have 3x zoom max or a fixed focus 23mm. I'm not going to carry my full-frame mirrorless wherever I go.
>For actually making actual calls, phones peaked 25+ years ago, and now they're so huge that it's almost hard to blame the retards/kids who always default to loudspeaker.
not hard to just hold it to your face or use your airpods.
>And digital notes aren't inherently bad, but not having a physical qwerty board to type them on would just make me want to revert to just writing shit down.
My phone has a wacom pen to write shit down

That being said, the Samsung S23 Ultra is the only phone worth getting these days, otherwise any $150 mid-range would do.