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Nior2008
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I own a Samsung S20FE handed down to me from my brother's girlfriend, but my favourite is my brother's samsung S20 ultra. What was yours? 

The latest phones seem boring. 

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For me it is no contest, the Unihertz Jelly 2, it is a powerful phone in a very small package.

 

I wish they would make decent phones in the size of the Samsung S* Mini range again, I hate massive phones, and only use it for basic messaging when I am not at my pc. 

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10 minutes ago, The 8-Bit Time Traveller said:

For me it is no contest, the Unihertz Jelly 2, it is a powerful phone in a very small package.

 

I wish they would make decent phones in the size of the Samsung S* Mini range again, I hate massive phones, and only use it for basic messaging when I am not at my pc. 

My brother used to have a s2 that was one of his best phones he used it for 6yrs.

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2 hours ago, Nior2008 said:

My brother used to have a s2 that was one of his best phones he used it for 6yrs.

I settle for the Jelly in lieu of a decent 4-5" alternative

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iPhone 14 Pro... I'm actually on a 13 Pro, but it's safe to say "mine, but with an always-on display, a faster chip and better cameras) is a reasonable pick.

 

My choice after that would probably be the Galaxy S23+. No, not the Ultra. I'd love the camera flexibility, but the S23+ is good enough and is decidedly lighter and thinner. The Xiaomi 13 Pro and other Chinese flagships are out as they won't be fully compatible in North America.

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12 hours ago, Commodus said:

iPhone 14 Pro... I'm actually on a 13 Pro, but it's safe to say "mine, but with an always-on display, a faster chip and better cameras) is a reasonable pick.

 

My choice after that would probably be the Galaxy S23+. No, not the Ultra. I'd love the camera flexibility, but the S23+ is good enough and is decidedly lighter and thinner. The Xiaomi 13 Pro and other Chinese flagships are out as they won't be fully compatible in North America.

I just think xiaomi flagships are just overpriced gimmicks, good rear cams bust shitty selfie cams, good processor but they throttle down the chip in order to keep it cool on the xiaomi 13,good camera hardware but shitty software. Even oppo"s midrange reno series take better pictures compared to xiaomi"s 13 cameras. I hope oppo reno 9 pro really comes with the specs I read they'd would kill both the S23  and the xiaomi 13 a flagship killer. But then there be xiaomi 13t series d=.=b so many choices. Where the S23fe samsung??? 

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On 3/29/2023 at 2:53 AM, Nior2008 said:

The latest phones seem boring. 

LOL, everything from the first iPhone is "latest" to me, and wouldn't say smartphones to me are all that exciting.  I enjoy mobile operating systems, web browsing watching educational videos with them.  Using them is mentally-exciting, but in terms of being excited by 90 or 120Hz sceeens, OLED (not a fan of the 235Hz flickering PWM) or whatever else, I just don't care at all, or rather I care enough to say I don't want any of those features.

 

Also, just today, I saw a post asking about a samsung a34 and a maybe xiaomi phone (xiaomi and hauwei charged with RICO and theft of intellectual property) and so I looked up the a34 which is what the OP seems to have decided upon.

 

I have am opinion that the OP of that thread, if asked, could not even GUESS fairly accurately (within one inch) the size of the display.

 

It's 6.6 inches diagonal.  That's insane!  The smallest smartphone I had is 4.7" and even then, I can't use it with just my thumb.  I would like to try Sony's older compact phones with 4.3" screens, but I bet the screens aren't above 500 nits, which isn't enough outside when I need to see who's calling or read a text message.

 

Oh another thing I feel sorry for other people having to see on their display is that camera.

 

IT IS IN THE VIEW OF THE DISPLAY!!!  I just couldn't get over that.  I don't currently have over-compulsove disorder, may some other one, but if I had to look at that damn camera on my display I just don't think I could deal with it.  The only way that would be possible is low brighrness (not on oled, that makes the flickering even stronger, more off time, vs lit up pixel time) and full black to the interface.  I wouldn't be able to concentrate!

 

You want exciting or innovative, that's Yotaphone and HiSense (they also brand some television bezels) A5 and A5C.  Now that's exciting!

"Now you get what you want But do you want more?"
- Bob Marley, Rastaman Vibration album 1976

 

Why do you need a 90 or 120 or 144 or 165Hz screen on a smartphone?  You're viewing 60Hz games (maybe, I hope so) and viewing 60Hz or even 30Hz content, so how does this improve your quality of life?

 

OLED is cool and all, but LCD is fine, I think we probably stare at these things more than is healthy anyway.

 

Speaking of, my favorite software for screens is

https://justgetflux.com/ so your screen isn't bright white at night, released in 2008 and still being improved.

Dark Reader addon for webpages.  Pick any color you want (thousands of colors) for both background and text (background and foreground page elements).  Enable the preview mode on desktop for Firefox and Chrome addon, by clicking the dark reader addon settings, and somewhere there is a settings gear icon on the left of some window that pops up.  Clicking that allows you to choose the preview, or beta mode, to allow color options.  Not needed on mobile.

 

NoScript or EFF's privacy badger can block many scripts and websites that would load and track you, possibly halving page load time!

 

F-droid is a place to install open-source software for android, Antennapod, RethinkDNS, Fennec which is Firefox with about:config, lots of performance and other changes available, mozilla KB has a huge database of what most of the settings do.

 

Enjoy discussing firewall (blocks apps) and dns filters (redirects all dns requests om android, to your choice of dns, even if overridden).  RethinkDNS is my pick and I set it to use pi-hole, installed inside Ubuntu, which is inside Virtualbox, until I go to a website, nothing at all connects to any other server.  I also use NextDNS.io to do the same when away from home wi-fi or even cellular!  I can even tether from cellular to ANY device sharing via wi-fi, and block anything with dns set to NextDNS, regardless if the device allows changing dns.

 

You most likely have never needed a new phone (new hardware) to play most android games, using OpenGL, which hasn't seen updates in I think at least a decade or so, it's been quite a while.  Especially not what is on SoC GPU chips, it's lighter than regular openGL, which is already succeeded by Vulkan.  Look up videos for the games you want to play, and see how well a phone from 12 years ago will run them.

 

Look up n64, dolphin and ps1 emulation on hardware from over a decade ago on mobile processors, and you'll be surprised.

 

PC specs:

 

Linux enthusiast, LineageOS fan, WebOS, SymbianOS, MeegoOS was, backed by both Nokia and Intel, and e-ink displays.

 

Intel Xeon quad core, clocked down and peaks at around 0.97Ghz, even though it's set higher. I now have multiple profiles, one of which tops out at 0.53 GHz!

2 GB DDR3 clocked down to 800Mhz and undervolted 1.28v

GPU: GTX 960 (more than enough for games I play)

SSD: Samsung 840 232GB

HDD: 4 old spinners, less than 500GB each, using two.  One dedicated to Linux, open-source such as Ubuntu, Mint, or Fedora and the rest for downloads / games. I also use a third as an offline backup of Windows, because it sure can use it!

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