The price may be midrange but the specs definitely are not.
That’s really good, but I somehow doubt it would stay $550 when they sell it in western countries.
What about updates, bloatware, spyware? A little bit more important than 144 Hz for essentially everything but gaming.
I do not know one person changing their stock Android, let alone jailbreak iOS. Since it comes with drawbacks like broken banking apps, I would also not do it myself. So if you see a lot of people doing such things, you must know a very specific group of people.
You’re on Lemmy my friend. There are a bunch of us running GrapheneOS. Some on CalyxOS, e/os, LineageOS. If you hang out around tech people enough, you’ll meet some that change their Android phone OS.
LineageOS GSI on my Samsung Tab 2019 Has made it still usable to this day, then there’s the one with microg on my Pixel 2XL. Getting rid of play services axed about 800M of RAM usage for me. The Pixel is on Android 14 and the Tab will be the next time I update.
We are out there, we own our devices, and get value out of them well beyond their predefined expiration dates.
What’s the use-case for 24GB of RAM on a phone?
Just as a precautionary measure to open one chrome tab before installing Firefox.
You joke. But, firefox on android starts killing tabs when your system is under memory pressure. Where even chrome would keep your tabs alive. This is not an issue on high memory devices but is noticeable on low ram smartphones.
I’ve had over 100 tabs open on my Firefox on Pixel 6 for months now. What are you doing that you can’t keep tabs open on Firefox?
Yes, we have apps like MLCchat, maid and sherpa to name a few. The experience is not seamless even with 12gb of ram.
No SD card slot, no 3.5 mm jack.
What the hell are you doing with sd card slot when there is one 1 tb worth of space? Seriously the 3.5mm jack I get, but not sd card. The space in modern phone has never ended with me and if the point is to move file from device to another you can just use usb cable or cloud storage. There is no reason to put sd card on phones anymore when theres so much space in phones
BUT DOES IT HAVE A HUGE BATTERY? Nothing matters if it can’t run two days.
If can be fully charged under 20mins or less. Why would 2days battery matter in this scenario?
Amplifying your logic a little, to make the point: A ten-minute battery life would also be no problem, as long as you are near a wall outlet.
But what if I’m camping? Traveling? Using the phone a lot on the go?
That’s absurd reasoning. Most smartphones easily last a whole day and some more depending on usage. The 150w version has a 5200mah battery. It should easily last a wholevday and some more depending on your usage.
If you are going camping you would take a power bank with you, same with long distance travel. If you need a true 2 days no-compromise battery life. You would need a smartphone with at least a 6000mah battery. But, depending on your usage pattern even that won’t guarantee 2 full days of extreme usage. I would rather have super fast charging vs regular slow (fast) charging with the same battery size.
Outside the Rog smartphone and perhaps a few midrange Samsung smartphones you do not have many options. So, it should be fine for most people.
You can consider this one with a 22000mah battery: https://m.ulefone.com/armor-24.html It should easily last a whole week.
