Only a very small subset of consumers care about custom rom support

Could almost be an advert for TSMC

Apparently some people don’t react to bed bug bites so there’s no itching at all

Have you tried going to Settings -> Display -> Screen Mode and change it to Natural?

The difference between the Exynos 2200 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 will be huge in both performance and efficiency.

For the price difference I’d wait for a deal and go for the S23 if it was me.

Feature wise most mobile OS’s are pretty mature so it’s only natural to see less “improvements” compared to the early days.

Use your favourite Lemmy client for example, the first month of development every release brought a bunch of new features and improvements but these days the releases are all pretty small.

You get secure face unlock now as an alternative if the fingerprint sensor isn’t cutting it.

Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 will mean not very good battery life

Not so much downloading games but offloading the processing to powerful servers in the cloud so you can play games that your phone typically can’t handle.

OPEC cartel succeeding in doing what cartels do

Just use https://app.strem.io/#/ add to Home Screen. You’ll need to download VLC to be able to play streams.

Did Elon pay his legal bill?

This one?

Awesome!

Bullet points to read it in seconds ftw

TLDW?

2 years of updates means you’ll quickly end up with a phone that’s waiting to be hacked

Quite a number of critical CVEs that result in remote code execution fixed in this months patch.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/china-wind-solar-power-global-renewable-energy-leader

Not a China shill but I’m pretty sure they see the connection and have been investing heavily in renewables.

Top notch camera, top specs, best software support. It’s usually my first choice when I look for an android phone.

A lot of the issues you listed are bad for people that want to mod their phones but they are pros for anyone that wants a secure phone. As I get older, I just want a phone that works that is actively supported and patched from security vulnerabilities.