• Granixo@feddit.cl
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    1 year ago

    The only thing i expect for Google Pixels is for them to have a clean Android install, i couldn’t care less if it’s hardware was equivalent to my low end Motorola.

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      1 year ago

      And an unlockable bootloader.

      Decent CPU and RAM.

      High rate screen

      Unlockable bootloader

      SD card

      Removable battery.

      Such a phone would be an instant buy for me, but nobody wants to make them

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                If you call snapdragon 778 a shit cpu and want all those features, you will not be getting a smartphone for a long time. I have used smartphones with half the processing power of 778, and they all work fine. My point being, fairphone 5 is the closest to that ideal smartphone, yet you dismiss it based on SoC alone. Snapdragon 778 is anything but shit.

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                  I have used smartphones with half the processing power of 778, and they all work fine.

                  And that’s fine, but I don’t want the chip from 5 years ago, I want to chip with modern performance that can do any modern task you can throw at it like driving a high refreshed screen when playing random video games.

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        I used to buy it and root right away, but always having to dance around safetynet was a pain. havent been rooted in a while :l

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        1 year ago

        Such a phone would be everyone’s dream to be honest. 🌠📱

        My phone (Moto G8 Play) does have a microSD slot and a headphone jack, while in terms of hardware is the bare minimum nowadays (only having 2GB of RAM).

        But at the very least having a Motorola is probably the 2nd best thing when it comes to minimal bloatware.

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      You should though. I have a Pixel 7 Pro. I’ve seen all the reviews/tests showing how bad of a chip it is. But in day to day use it’s fast snappy and pretty good.

      it does however warm the device a lot and warmth = battery loss.

      Tensor G1 and G2 would probably be absolutely fine if fabbed on TSMC.

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      are aware that you can just flash plain AOSP on any phone, right?

      EDIT: Well, this aged like milk. If you happen to have a phone that is not easily unlockable or that has no well-maintained AOSP ROM, Universal Android Debloater is a pretty decent way to clean up your OS.

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        Dude this kind of response is so fucking annoying. Any time someone says they prefer tech that works someone like you shows up to But Ackshually them about it.

        Some people want the product to be what they expected out of the goddamn box.

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        Any phone? Really? Even the ones with locked bootloaders? How about the ones that don’t have any 3rd-party ROMs?

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        You will inevitably run into various minor issues like the fingerprint sensor not working very well, or face unlock is fiddly, or auto-brightness behaves strangely, or double-tap to wake has stopped working, etc etc.