Surely opinions on this are going to vary wildly? Lemmy is full of people installing graphene and de-googling, while I’m happy with stock Android on Pixels with a custom launcher. Samsung, Sony and Asus all have serious devotees as well.
There’s also different responses depending on what you want in a phone. Some people want smaller than 6", others must have a 3.5mm jack. Some want SD storage. The camera is vital for me, but most of my colleagues don’t really care about the camera.
How would you sift through all that for a “best” one size fits all phone?
If it was that big a deal for you, why would you use a phone OS by that same company?
SMS is hot garbage:
The first “S” stands for short. If your message is over 160 characters, you are sending multiple messages. The implementation of SMS is a hack on the carrier network in the first place, and joining multiple messages, particularly across carriers is a complication to this hack. Sure, 99.99% of messages are delivered just fine. But if the message doesn’t arrive for some reason, there’s no acknowledgement of this. The recipient just doesn’t get it.
SMS is easy to spoof. If I have even basic carrier access, I can send a message to your dad from your number.
I can initiate a number port on your number, and while that port request will likely fail, it’s possible that I can receive messages that were destined for you in the short term.
I guess it’s neat, but I don’t see the point. 99% of my maps usage is local navigation, mostly in the car. I already know the weather.
The remaining 1% is using the app like an atlas, I guess it’s nice to know that it’s snowing today in Estonia, but that’s not why I’m looking at the place in Google maps.
I’m tempted. At the moment my daily carry is a Pixel 7 and an iPad mini. Thing is: the iPad mini is absolutely perfect as an 8" tablet. The Fold is going to have to be amazeballs to even consider switching.
But, carrying around one device would be amazing. Number of times I’ve been unexpectedly yoinked into a meeting and not had my tablet makes me yearn for this.
The biggest things giving me cause to pause are losing iOS (not that I like it more, but I like being current with both OSes) and the Fold’s weight. I won’t want to run with the fold in my pocket. Looks like I’ll need to also upgrade my watch.
So, really I’d be going from there everyday-carry devices to two. And I would need to upgrade them both.
18 Million subscribers, Billions of views, has had Kobe Bryant and the US president as guests on his channel. If that’s “semi-succesful”, what on earth is your yard-stick for successful?
I don’t always agree with his takes, but I honestly can’t think of a better or better-known tech reviewer.
I’ve been on the Pixel bandwagon since the start. I haven’t had every generation, but I’ve had more than half of them. The pure Android experience and the best cameras on the market have been the biggest draws for me.
I haven’t had a Samsung since the Galaxy 5, but i hated the bloat they came with. To me, the biggest flaw to Android is that manufacturers can slap their own launchers/mail and browsers/assistants on them, totally changing the feel of the OS and still get to call the result “Android”.
this is mainly because Android stopped supporting 3rd party launchers.
What do you mean? I’ve always used my own launcher. I’ve never used the pixel launcher - not because I have anything against it, but because I like Nova better. L
I voted in last year’s competition (missed it this year). It was super well run, truly a blind test, and I agreed with the final report completely.
Yet Marques always gives his ‘best camera phone’ award to Apple, knowing and acknowledging that the Pixels beat Apples in his blind tests. He thinks the overall photo experience with Apple is better.
I disagree with him, but I get where he’s coming from.