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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
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Subject: Re: a desired feature for flips
Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 13:08:20 +0100
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bad sector wrote:

> I want my flip to replace the bedside alarm clock when I'm resting. Open 
> to about 75 degrees and turned away like some book-end so as to to show 
> the cover screen inverted and toward the bed, with a low-power display 
> showing time, weather, alarm and a time remaining slider. Don't want 
> YAFA (yet another fucking app), just a feature.

You do realise that "features" of a phone are "just apps", eating up 
some of the same flash, likely being impossible to remove and unlikely 
to ever get updates ... right?

Google makes a nightstand for Pixel phones, and an app that turns it 
into a sort-of alarm clock while charging.  I have a Gen1 Nest Hub as my 
"alarm clock replacement" it has various clock faces, the largest using 
digits ~35mm, I suspect it could have used 45mm if it tried, but good 
enough for me to read without reaching for glasses.