EVs have a High voltage disconnect. I repaired my EV(inverter) with normal hand tools in my garage. I did have to buy a license and tool for flashing the firmware, but this is a problem in nearly every new vehicle, gas or electric.

EVs do not use more energy than gasoline cars, that’s nonsense. The best ICE engine is ~40% efficient plus the losses from braking. Battery electric is closer to 80%. They are only around 10-15% heavier.

Well everything’s more expensive than the thing you already own. It’s true, most are available in the higher end markets right now, but the Bolt and Leaf are pretty cheap. In the long run, almost all EVs are cheaper than their gas counterparts.

Those drawbacks are endlessly discussed online, to a ridiculous degree. Nothing is universally better, but EVs are almost as close as it gets. If there weren’t several whole industries dead set on preventing adoption they would have been adopted much quicker.

Looks like a solid choice. I like the matte plastic back and wireless charging. This is a good recommendation for a mid price phone, although personally I am not a fan of Pixels barebones android.

Significant for me. Not sure if vsync is working.

Looks like more generic ODM Chinese phones. With a somewhat no-name processor. Nothing to see here.

Making a product made to discourage usage is always going to fail. Palm phone had everyone excited because we wanted a good small phone. Instead they made an intentionally bad small phone and wondered why no one wanted it.

Bezels stopped mattering a long time ago. The overall height of this phone is 6mm taller than the zenfone and 5mm taller than the iPhone.

You’re saying if ford discontinued all models except for the F350, we could call the short box version a compact truck.

6mm taller is a lot when you’re looking for a small phone, especially using one handed. 3mm is a lot for width too. Now compare it to a true compact like the iPhone mini or Sony compact series and it’s huge. Personally I would not call any of these compact, and if you are going to include a phone with a 6.3" screen, then it loses all meaning.

It’s still significantly bigger than the zenfone 10 or the iPhone and screen size matters more to some of us than the overall size.

Call it a not huge phone or something. Compact should mean something.

Children of time

We’re told that folding phones are the new small phones, but the moment they start to get usable folded they get bigger too.

I came really close to giving it a try. My two biggest gripes were that the unfolded size was too big and the leather back wasn’t standard.

Couldn’t disagree more. Both are huge selling points for me, and have virtually no downsides, unlike other phone features.

I almost ordered, but this was a deal breaker.

I’m guessing its about tankies

Was it shorter? I know its 1mm wider which is a bummer.

Maybe worse with the removal of the zoom lens, which was already downgraded last year.

I don’t get it. I loved my 8" tablet, but they are extinct. I bought a 10" tablet but it is too big to use for a tablet. Who the hell is buying these 12" tablets.