Re: a desired feature for flips

bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> 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.

No mention of which flip phone you have, but likely it does have an
alarm feature which is likely a YAFA, or you could install another YAFA.
Not sure why you want it open as the alarm should sound whether the
phone is flipped [partially] open or flipped close.  Maybe you want to
see the cover screen, but then you'll be asleep, and when the phone
alarm sounds you'll know the time.

Your eyes must be sharper or younger than mine.  My eyes couldn't focus
on a tiny cover screen with my head in the middle of the bed on a
pillow.  I'd probably get a phone stand, so the phone could be fully
flipped open to view the bigger inside/main screen.  I don't wear
eyeglasses to bed.  Maybe you don't use them.

Despite a low-power cover screen, you might have to leave the flip phone
plugged into a power source during the night, or sitting on a wireless
charging stand.  Could be it runs out of power on just its battery, and
you oversleep the alarm that never sounds to miss that morning meeting.

Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 6: How to Add Alarm Widgets on the Cover Screen
(Android 14)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHDH40vECeI

That guy shows adding an alarm widget to the cover screen.  Looks like
there would be room to add a weather widget, too.  As for a slider
counting down the remaining screen, that sounds more like a countdown
timer function.  Phones with alarms often also have a timers.  If you
mentioned your brand and model of flip phone, someone else also using it
might check what widgets you could add to the cover screen.

Were you looking for phone brand and model suggestions, or just opining?