"Compact" smartphone size creep

[thing1]

In the direction of "let phones be phones" , I think at MWC this year Nokia became the new hero of the small handed

https://www.nokia.com/en_gb/phones/nokia-8110-4g
https://www.nokia.com/en_gb/phones/all-phones

[Kim]

Barakta's comment was that it lacked the scrollwheel of the 7110, which is a shame, if unsurprising.

[thing1]

It's weird how moving files from one place to another never seems to get any easier.

*sigh*. And I do take my share of blame. (My intern project was the original irda obex stack for symbian then wrote half their Bluetooth stack)

[Mr Larrington]

It's weird how moving files from one place to another never seems to get any easier.

This.  Connect my nine y.o. camera to a Windows box and it shows up as a disk drive.  Trying to transfer pictures from the fondleslab, OTOH...

[Kim]

As time goes on, we acquire more and more ways to easily transfer files that are applicable in fewer and fewer situations.

[Beardy]

It's weird how moving files from one place to another never seems to get any easier.

There’s always a conflict designed into the core of every file transfer protocol between easy of use and access, and security. As these two are fundamentally opposed to each other it can never really get easier, though it does often get faster.