AlmostDachshund

S20 FE user here. Pretty solid phone for the price I paid like almost 2 years ago. It’s still great and works marvelously for my usage.

Only downside I would say is custom ROM support, as there’s no working one and device support is about to end.

Mostly easy apk sideloading and customization. It’s the most versatile OS.

Hopefully real third party browsers are coming to iOS soon. Safari is outdated as hell.

Android 14 is the most underwhelming updated yet. Google didn’t even promote it well on I/O. About OneUI 6, I just wish Samsung updates the control center. It’s too outdated. I know it’s simple and working well, but I would love some visual tweaks.

It annoys the hell out of me as well. I haven’t found a workaround yet.

Removing the Play Store would not uninstall any other app. But why would you want to uninstall the apps and then install from Aurora? Aurora get its apps from the Play Store, but anonymously.

I don’t believe there’s any reliable option besides Samsung Pay, but it’s locked to Samsung devices. Privacy-wise, I’m not aware of any solution.

Whatsapp is less “worst” as it have E2EE by default in every conversation. I’d say Telegram privacy wise is a joke.

Aurora recognize the apps normally. No need to unistall them. It will work just like the Play Store.

As a Samsung user since OneUI 2, I quite dig Android 12+ looks. It helps with bigger screens. But the quick settings toggles are quite a waste of space that big, I agree. When using some ROMs you can reduce the toggles size, and it gets real better.