Smartphones

Kajiimagi said:

My last few phones were Samsung , used to get the Note line for the screen size , have a S22 Ultra now (for the camera). Any Android will have bloatware anymore , even the google pixel line. I prefer/am used to Samsung's UI but it can be considered bloat as well.

I'm old enough to remember when phones were exciting. People thought I was lying when I told them I had a phone with a camera. Then OMG 4G, now pfffft. it's all AI bullshit that I turn off. I see zero reason to upgrade.

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BrutulTM said:

I agree. Phones are a commodity now, no real reason to get the latest and greatest. I still buy one generation old pixel phones just out of habit, but my Mom and brother both use $200 motorolas and looking at them it's honestly hard to make a case for why I'm paying $400 for a Pixel. The $1200 Iphone is completely indefensible aside from being a status symbol.

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Wife and I are currently rolling Samsung S20 FEs. I've had to have one cracked glass replaced (random drop which landed flat on the one pebble in a parking lot...) and while they did it I had the replace the battery. Both are still doing everything we could need our phones to do, and I honestly kinda like it being old enough that neither Samsung nor Google are pushing unwanted AI bullshit down onto them.

I just liked that phone because a part of me still longs for a tiny physical keyboard, because I'm old like that.