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They still need to fix the modem issues and thereby increase battery life.
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…
I don't understand why the design is bad. Of course it's subjective, but what puts you off here?
I'm terrified: > One challenge for the future, and those seven years of updates, will be the 8GB of RAM. Google is already calling devices with 8GB of RAM "hardware limited" when it comes to future AI features, so be prepared for that. It's a budget phone, though, so you have to make some trade-offs. 1) 8GB ram is hardware limited, 2) $499 is a budget phone??? I'm very happy with my recently acquired Moto G Stylus 5G…
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> Google is already calling devices with 8GB of RAM "hardware limited" when it comes to future AI features
which... yeah, I think that's true? You can run smaller LLMs in 8GB, for example, but it's a tight fit and you're going to be limited to really really small models.
Granted, I suspect this will result in the floor for "acceptable RAM" to go up considerably, which... we'll see if that's good or bad.
> $499 is a budget phone???
Yeah no that's nonsense. You can get a moto g for $99 (!) on sale at https://www.motorola.com/us/specials right now and that's... I mean, that's an old model, but it's perfectly serviceable yet.
I'm terrified: > One challenge for the future, and those seven years of updates, will be the 8GB of RAM. Google is already calling devices with 8GB of RAM "hardware limited" when it comes to future AI features, so be prepared for that. It's a budget phone, though, so you have to make some trade-offs. 1) 8GB ram is hardware limited, 2) $499 is a budget phone??? I'm very happy with my recently acquired Moto G Stylus 5G…
$250 would have been a budget phone 5 years ago. If you're buying an unlocked phone from a brick and mortar store, $350-$500 is the minimum for a brand-name phone. If your are based in the US/EU, you may only have brand name phones available.
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…
I have heard really good things about the Pixels. Also GrapheneOS supports almost exclusively Pixels, so I would think that they aren't that bad.
I don't think that necessarily follows; GrapheneOS uses the Pixel line because it lets you install a custom ROM and relock the bootloader, and they're a security-focused ROM so that's a big deal to them.
>Terrible in-house vendor locked Tensor CPU
>8GB RAM + 128GB combo in the EU
>Huge bezels
>8W wireless charging, are they for real
>Same camera setup on an "AI-powered Amazing Camera"
I don't know how to describe it, mediocre, I guess? Don't get me wrong, they surely did polish the phone, but apart from its out-of-the-box tuned camera, it has no value beyond actually mid-range phones in $300-400 range with a tuned GCam loaded on them.
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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.
Moto G4 (XT1625) introduced in 2016. I think I got mine in 2017. It was $170 at the time iirc. I don't even know how much ram my Maemo phones (N900 and later N9) had. They were dog slow though.
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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.
I don’t think it’s a controversial opinion to state that yes, Apple software is higher quality and more privacy respecting than Samsungs.
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I have heard really good things about the Pixels. Also GrapheneOS supports almost exclusively Pixels, so I would think that they aren't that bad.
> Also GrapheneOS supports almost exclusively Pixels, so I would think that they aren't that bad. I don't think that necessarily follows; GrapheneOS uses the Pixel line because it lets you install a custom ROM and relock the bootloader, and they're a security-focused ROM so that's a big deal to them.
This is the list of requirements: https://grapheneos.org/faq#future-devices
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…
I have heard really good things about the Pixels. Also GrapheneOS supports almost exclusively Pixels, so I would think that they aren't that bad.
My experience was, "overpriced garbage".