I have literally spent more time trying to push my app to my phone and dealing with worthless strag frick error messages (Literally the only message the phone would give me the user, from the ui, was "apk failed to install", fricking cancer)
And god forbid there be some way ti just force push the fricking thing onto the phone certs and sigs be darned
Every cellphone made after 04 was a mistake
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I seem like a gigaboomer to my friends because I barely know how to frickin use my shitty 2018 android phone.
frick phones I am not a phonecel I will never be a tabletcel I will never be a mobilestrag
I use BIG BULKY BEIGE DESKTOP PCs like terry intended
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Based.
I still use a phone from 2014, I refuse to buy a new one. Fricking things haven't improved a darn in terms of responsiveness, boot time or UX but they need 4 - 16 times the ram.
Aids, trucking aids
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Are you r-slurred? Phones have absolutely gotten faster boot times since 2014.
2014 Androids were using shitty EMMC, UFS has become extremely fast.
There's more memory now but OEMs like Samsung have actually reduced system memory on the newest S series models.
More memory is always better, so it's incredibly stupid.
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I did not know that was a thing
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The storage interface on phones is legitimately impressive, Apple moreso, but Android OEMs are very good too.
Apple implemented NVME storage on the iPhone 6s in 2015 (went up to 128GB years before Android too). It used the same proprietary memory controller the Macbook line used for Apple's NVME solution. Nobody had a faster controller until Samsung LSI fabbed 970 Pro NVME drive.
Samsung LSI started selling UFS in 2015. It was really only Samsung mobile and some Meizu devices in 2015 that used it, but from 2016 onwards every Android flagship had UFS. UFS 4 is nearly as fast as Apple's current NVME solution.
Performance isn't an issue for phones. Your average flagship is more powerful than most people's work laptops.
I agree that Android development is a pain in the butt, but the hardware platform isn't the issue.
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The day I can run Ubuntu on any random phone is the day I love phones tbh
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I'm sure you know this, but there's been quite a few Ubuntu touch builds for phones.
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/?pk_vid=fa97308fd1336d3716798626971bf91b
Samsung actually had Linux on Dex a few years ago. It was awesome. You docked your phone with its type c port (Samsung is a full USB 3.1 with video out over display port alt mode) ran Dex and could spin up Linux containers.
It had plenty of compute for it too. Qualcomm flagship SoCs lag behind Apple on CPU performance (often by a few years) but the Snapdragon 845 and 855 platforms it ran on still had very fast CPUs. The highest end Samsung phones had 12GB of memory then, so it ran perfectly well.
They deprecated it with Android 10. It was such an amazing power user feature. If you've really skipped out on phones since 2014 you've missed a ton of cool hardware.
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Lame
Yea I probably have and finger print readers do seem neat. Any recommendations for what my next phone should be? I also plan on keeping this one for 8+ years
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Z Fold right now, IMO.
Samsung spent several years shrinking storage on their flagships (still more than other Android OEMs, less than Apple), but the Fold 4 finally has a 1TB SKU.
The screen js excellent and is well built. My old Fold 2 I got 3 years ago still works, I don't think longevity is a major issue.
OneUI is fast, and the ADB overscan command Google deprecated (lets you force immerisve mode 24/7 ro hide status and nav bar) still works in OneUI.
You have a proper multi-window app mode (3 windows at once), with Goodlock modules a real sound mixer like a desktop OS, Samsung's stock apps including the browser are the best of their kind on Android too.
The Goodlock modules are legitimately insane they're as versatile as the xposed framework I used to have to root for. You can create custom navigation button icons, new buttons, and all the stuff gravitybox used to be required for with root.
Bixby routines are kind of like native tasker, too.
The Fold's screen can basically do two 6" 2:1 screens side by side for multiwindow.
The onlh downside versus something like the Pixel is the camera for photography. The lag is awful there. I also keep an iPhone and use Airmessage to sync my imessage with my Fold.
If it only had an SD card and all the other removed hardware features (IR blaster, MST, headphone jack), it'd be my favorite phone ever. Hopefully the Fold 5 adopts an 8" 4:3 screen. My only other gripe is the screen still being 8% smaller than a traditional mini tablet. It's still twice the surface area of a regular 6.7" elongated aspect ratio phone, though.
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FRICKING JEWGLE AND EVERY OTHER COMPANY THAT MAKES APPS KEEP UPDATING THEM AND ADDING MORE USELESS JS BLOAT SO MY PHONE IS NOW MUCH """SLOWER""" THAN IT WAS YEARS AGO EVEN THOUGH IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME
(also my phone model isn't supported by LineageOS and I'm too lazy to install a new AOSP rom and try to remove all the garbage considering I only use my phone like 20 minutes a day at most)
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RIP Terry
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