- extended update service to 7 years
- pushing Material UI consistency
- Tensor G3 chip for AI & machine learning performed locally on device
I just want to change my battery and get a phone for that no people had to die In some poor country.
Like seriously, what’s the percentage of people that run machine learning algorithms on their phone? 0.0000000001%?
Fairphone
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I miss removable batteries so much. I was so disappointed that project aria never went anywhere
I need a new phone soon, can’t really wait until the EU regulations force companies to build them with removable batteries. I need to look more into Fairphone, hope that’s decent. Last review I read made me concerned about battery life, I really don’t like charging my phone every day either. Or having to carry a power bank with me.
I don’t think there’s anything on the market that comes even close to the modularity aria had promised. Moto z had some mods but they dropped that very quickly unfortunately.
My fairphone4 has been really good so far. If battery power is an issue you could just bring one spare but I haven’t needed to do that yet
Bringing a spare is a good point. Less of a hassle than a power bank (although still not ideal). Battery life is pretty much the only thing I care about aside from longevity. Fairphone has longevity covered, maybe the review I read just made the battery life seem mich worse than it actually is. I’ll have to look into it some more, thanks
I have to do the power bank thing from time to time and it’s definitely suboptimal. I think I can easily make it to the 9a though or maybe the 8a after some piece cuts. I used to play the “what’s the new hotness” game and it’s nice not being that gullible with my money anymore.
Yeah, for me it always helped to think about what I was actually doing with my phone and I quickly realized that I really have not mich use for the most expensive phones. A camera like I’d get on the new iPhone for example would be nice but that alone isn’t worth paying almost 1k more. And aside from camera I don’t think there’s much difference for the average user when you compare a high end and a low to mid-range phone.
I agree $1k for a phone seems crazy but if people are willing to spend it, who am I to judge? It is kind of great that midrange phones have become so good.
Many actions on modern phones use AI. Text to speech and image processing just to name two. I am very excited to not have that information being constantly sent to the cloud for processing.
It’s my understanding that the Pixel camera hardware isn’t that spectacular but boy-oh-boy the processed photos look spectacular.
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My big issue with the line has been no microSD slot. I won’t buy a phone with locked memory capacity.
I feel like phones provide enough disc space nowadays. I was never a huge fan of microSD slots to begin with. They’re slower than internal storage and I’ve had one fail before and everything on it was lost. I had to factory reset the phone to get the slot working again. There might have been a better solution but I couldn’t figure one out.
I have enough media to fill my phone about 4x over. I’d be lost without the expansion.
And no… “buh, buh, cloud storage!” is useless if you’re not connected.
Everyone has different needs. I just don’t have any need for a microSD slot anymore and you seem to.
Is this year’s Tensor an actual in-house chip or just another rebranded shitty Exynos?
Hats off to Samsung tho, kneecapping the competition 😂
this article says that it’s based on its Exynos 2400
What rubbish. It is exactly the same as every other smartphone on the planet. Updates are only new software and even then you could flash a new rom.
Click bait bullshit
Sure.
All that is worthless when the phone will be released without battery.
If it doesn’t have a physical keyboard it’s won’t change shit
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