@susie yeah it is just a black bar, but I'd rather have it be a black bar. Also if I want to zoom they're still there. I have the option to turn them off and use gestures instead but fuck that, i would rather have physical buttons on the phone.

@beardalaxy Yeah, physical is always better. Modern smartphones are just weird. Uncomfortably huge and have no ports or buttons (mine does, cause entry level old motorola lol).

Samsung Galaxy S2 was imo the perfect smartphone. Small, replaceable battery, actually good AMOLED screen with standard RGB pattern diodes, physical square home button, SD-card slot, 3.5mm headphone port etc. Though I wasn't overly a fan of those swipe type physical back and menu buttons.

@susie my new phone's a motorola too, so was my old one, actually funny enough so was my very first mobile phone. they make really good budget phones and i don't need them to do very much. got this guy for $100 new. having that SD card slot and the headphone port is awesome. screen is just IPS but that's all i need.

it is getting to be uncomfortably big though for sure. if i could keep using my old phone with better performance and battery, i'd be super happy.