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Seven years of updates is good, but how difficult is it to get the battery replaced by a trustworthy shop when it starts dying in three years?
I recently replaced a screen on a Pixel 6a and it was okay. So far so good.
At some point Google needs to think about why these phones exist. Nobody buys them and there is no way their hardware division is turning a profit. After Stadia, I bet this is next.
I purchased a Pixel 7a for work related testing a few weeks ago. It's a nice phone and rooting was very easy. I was impressed overall. But those damn ads they deliver as notifications! WTF. Why would they do that. It just reaffirmed my allegiance to Apple.
Hmm I feel like you missed something. Notifications should not be an issue.
I cannot wait to read the reviews about which core piece of smartphones they fucked up with this one. After 3 Pixels, ALL with issues that never should have been present, I decided Google can shove it's Pixel phones. I prefer AOSP, rather than all the shitty overlays, so I went with Pixels and just FML. Complete pieces of shit. What kind of fucking clowns make a smartphone with a shitty, barely functional fingerprint…
Really attractive, but i want to know if Google 'sells' your data in the ad-bidding process
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Have you seen how much an iPhone Pro Max or Galaxy Ultra costs? Also factor in how many years of SW updates are you getting on those cheap Motorolas and also the quality of the software. Hardware bang for the buck ain't everything. If the software is full of ads on those cheap phones or is buggy(like it was on my OnePlus), then your $250 phone ain't worth shit in terms of frustration it's gonna cause you long term.
The less software (beyond stock Android) that a phone has, the better off it is IMHO. My last Moto phone (a G4) was almost entirely stock and that made me more inclined to buy the new version. Unfortunately the new phone had a bunch of bloaty apps but I managed to remove or disable almost all of them. Many of them were from Google if that matters. There is an app called Universal Android Debloater (UAD) that does thi…
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Have you seen how much an iPhone Pro Max or Galaxy Ultra costs? Also factor in how many years of SW updates are you getting on those cheap Motorolas and also the quality of the software. Hardware bang for the buck ain't everything. If the software is full of ads on those cheap phones or is buggy(like it was on my OnePlus), then your $250 phone ain't worth shit in terms of frustration it's gonna cause you long term.
My recent purchase of Samsung S23 Ultra at almost £800 is full of Samsung crud and spying that I can't remove. Cost is no guide on a crud-free experience.
If you wanna see spyware crud Try buying Chinese phones with Candy Crush and third party Chines apps and games you can't uninstall and show you ads in the menus.
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The less software (beyond stock Android) that a phone has, the better off it is IMHO. My last Moto phone (a G4) was almost entirely stock and that made me more inclined to buy the new version. Unfortunately the new phone had a bunch of bloaty apps but I managed to remove or disable almost all of them. Many of them were from Google if that matters. There is an app called Universal Android Debloater (UAD) that does thi…
Which bottom of a barrel did you have to scrape to get a phone with 2GB of RAM in recent history? My OnePlus 3 from 2016 had 6GB back then and my Samsung Note 2 before that had 2GB .. in 2012.
I don't even know how much ram my Maemo phones (N900 and later N9) had. They were dog slow though.
still the ugliest, mud crawling looking phone in the arena. I mean, it's such a disgusting looking stare that I don't wanna touch it with a 10 feet pole. Get an industrial designer, preferably someone who lives near beautiful landmarks, like an italian person and don't let the engineers tell the individual what can and can't be done. I'm not paying a cent for it, until they sort this design mess out. Also, the androi…
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My recent purchase of Samsung S23 Ultra at almost £800 is full of Samsung crud and spying that I can't remove. Cost is no guide on a crud-free experience.
Cute thinking Samsung's own apps are spyware crud. Is Apple's iCloud app also crud spyware? If you wanna see spyware crud Try buying Chinese phones with Candy Crush and third party Chines apps and games you can't uninstall and show you ads in the menus.