Why Buy Anything Else?
It seems to be the size of an air craft carrier.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2024
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Found the phone interesting, but my S22 is working just too perfectly the last 2 years to buy a new one now. Maybe I'll get the S26, if it's time to change
Samsung have for the large part, done really well with their phones in recent years. I'm glad people are getting more and more usage out of them.
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Things I will never do -
Pay that much for a phone
Click on a YT link that's clearly an ad
In this case, it's a semi-successful youtuber who does phone reviews.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marques_Brownlee
But I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you.
Mr Blott was suggesting that the review is ultimately just an advertisement. I disagree with it, but each to their own.
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I got a pixel 7 pro for β¬700, happy with that given the current nutty prices of phones
Other than the battery life, the Pixels are great long term phone investments.
That's $1000 more than I'm willing to pay on a smartphone.
What phone are you currently using? Do you find there's anything you can't do at such a price point?
I have a Pixel 6a, and no.
I have a Pixel 4a, and while not getting any more updates can be a dealbreaker, I think it's theoretically still fine for me. It does everything I need. Write text messages to friends, surf the web, connect to online services, take pictures at events. It has a nice screen and I have access to custom roms for privacy. What would be a reason for me to spend $1200 and upgrade except for 'it has better specs'? I think I'd rather use the $1200 to upgrade my computer and there's still enough money left to buy a VR headset or other random stuff. I think that's a valid reason to just spend $400 for a new phone or not get a new phone at all until the old one breaks.
I think the finance model for phones kinda makes them such an easy purchase in a way in which you can't do on PC.
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There are so many reasons, but the main one is that they keep pushing their shitty Exynos cpus in Europe! My next phone is certainly not a Samsung just for this reason.
shitty Exynos cpus
Funny how Exynos is shitty but when it's rebranded as Google Tensor, it's the strong heart of the best Android phones.
To be fair, I've only ever seen negative opinions about the Tensor chips and the majority of it stems from it being an Exynos derivative.
Afaik tensor isn't the main cpu in pixels
It is, and it's the reason Pixel 6 and 7 series had so many issues with poor battery life and weak modem. Although it appears that the third generation Tensor CPUs in Pixel 8 have major improvements on both of these pain points.
Still, that probably brings Pixel 8 only to the cheap-ish midrange standard when it comes to cell signal, as the Pixel 7 phones were atrocious and 6s were apparently even worse.
I mean, we are yet to see the performance of the latest generation
maybe because I don't need a new phone and don't see the need to upgrade every single damn year?
What did you get last year?
Not the user you responded to but in my case nothing. My Xperia 10 III is still working well after three years so there no reason to buy a new one.
Okay, I might be out of the OS support window so I might want to do see how AOSP does on my phone. But hardware-wise there's really no reason to upgrade (and much less to a comically expensive device like in the video).
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Well, that extra $1000 added to the price would be a reason... π