Is it just me or does it seem a bit out-of-touch to brag that last year’s $1100 phone is still usable? You would sure hope it wasn’t made obsolete that quickly
Article seems to push the point that you can, in fact, buy a “last-gen” phone and it’ll be just as effective as the current gen. Which is true, since phone improvements are marginal or just shit that includes image-editing AI in the camera firmware since the diminishing improvements of hardware are really starting to kick the manufacturers’ ass.
I'd imagine this article is more of statement against the S23 Ultra, than a humble brag. At this point, even if you are able to afford it, why upgrade yearly?
Phones aren't getting drastic upgrades with each physical release - most exciting upgrades are typically software based.
I returned a TV to Best buy because it had a dead pixel. I remember the manager was real annoyed, but exactly what you said. What, I saved up for all that time to buy a TV… Only to pick the wrong one in the line and I should suffer for it? Nah. Exchanged it for a working one, manufacturer can take the hit, not me
Do you own one? Can you see the bumps with the screen on? The screen doesn’t have to look good when it’s off - there’s nothing to look at then. It just has to look good when it’s on.
Okay, I own one. In fact I’m typing this on it. I’ll answer my own questions. I can see the “bumps” if I look at an extreme angle with the screen off when it’s under a light. They’re not visible with the screen on, and they’re below the screen so there’s nothing to feel. It does seem like a non issue unless something changes. This whole thing feels overblown because “Google bad”
Expecting every display to not have dead pixel or 2 is incredibly wasteful. So many perfectly good monitors and TVs would end up as scrap if the manufacturer had to pull every single one. Mountains of ewaste.
This expectation of excessive perfection and uniformity is really damaging.
Whatever man, I’ll enjoy my functionally identical display while you’re fucking around with returns and wondering why there’s so much ewaste on this planet.
I’d love to have your superhuman eyesight that can detect a dead pixel on a 4K TV from 10 feet away.
The conversation is actually about manufacturer greed (w.r.t sale prices going past $1000) and audacity to ask customers to pay that much for a less than perfect (their marketing material, theur words) device.
I hate greedy corporations as much as the next guy, but manufacturers are not going to up their QC to include single dead pixels and take a hit to their profit margin. They’d increase prices, by a lot.
Maybe there’s a market for displays that meet this standard for the nitpickers, and sell the ones that fail at a discount, but they’d definitely be a premium.
Not to mention a dead pixel can be indicative of future failures. My brand new Pixel 7 Pro had a single dead pixel. I didn’t notice until I finished setting it up (or maybe it didn’t show up until then). Being lazy and not wanting to set it up again, I decided to ignore it. It was at the bottom, out of the way.
A month or two later I woke up one day, checked notifications and took my horror that dead pixel had upgraded to an entire line at the bottom. Enough was enough, I missed my window for a store return but was able to get a RMA setup. Replacement is going strong, no dead pixel and none showing up.
One or two dead pixels on a 4k display, probably not a problem. I likely won’t notice. Bright pixels though and it goes straight back. Those will annoy me the entire time I own the device.
For a phone reviewer probably this means something (not sure if it’s article worthy, but there, we have an article) , for a regular user 18 months should be the bare minimum to use a phone, I am aiming for 3-4 years if the hardware doesn’t fail and Its still getting OS updates.
For my next phone I will try to buy something which can last for 5 years if possible. I hope we will have more great sustainable options in the coming years.
There are literally no exciting phones in mass-market carriers (at least in the US) anymore, why would anybody buy the next model phones every time? Not to mention their insane costs…
Not sponsored, I just genuinely like the product. Adguard doesn’t require manifests because it works outside the browser.
But trivial to circumvent. Just change the origin url from (for example) ‘ads.google.com’ to ‘google.com’ and you no longer can block ads based on DNS blocking.
While it is now not a hugh thread it will eventually happen when they manage to eradicate adblockers in the browser.
I honestly don’t know anymore as I can’t find it. Maybe it was just different in older Android versions, but now I akso just have FF set as my default browser and that’s it.
I’m doing this from a Samsung, so the steps might differ slightly, but go into apps, scroll down to Chrome, select it, and then tick the ‘Disable’ option. Now Chrome literally can’t open anything.
I have only one problem with that: no other browser is capable of Casting (as in Chromecast to an Android TV). Trust me, I heard and tried ALL the suggestions there is. And no, I don’t want to cast the whole phone screen, JUST the browser or the medium playing inside it. You know, science-kind media for my friend.
While I have an old Gmail account I do not use it. My main email account is with (not much better) Microsoft. I also have an account with Proton Mail, which will eventually be my only account.
I have a Pixel 8 Pro. I can see the “bumps” if I look at an extreme angle with the screen off. They’re not visible with the screen on, and they’re below the screen so there’s nothing to feel. It does seem like a non issue unless something changes.
How do you consider it a non-issue if it’s a defect in something you purchased from a major manufacturer? I hope you got an extra discount for this when you purchased it.
I’m not convinced it’s a defect. For it to be a defect, it has to be unintentional and unwanted. There’s nothing at this point to suggest it was unintentional, and it doesn’t have any impact on my experience using it, therefore it’s not unwanted. It’s entirely benign.
It is my first, and I definitely had to read it twice to make sure that I understood. It is definitely not you, but the awkward way they worded the title.
Thank you. I happened to be smelling something toast like at the same time I tried to read that and had to check the comments. Turns out it was a heater that hadn’t been on in a while.
I loved my V3m back in the day and would do all the SEEM edits and replace the locked-down Verizon firmware with the fully-featured USCC version for my friends. Good times. Who besides Verizon would put Bluetooth behind a paywall? :sigh:
Anyway, I’m about 2 years overdue in replacing my current daily driver. Wonder what the odds are that the Razr Plus is both bootloader unlockable and will (eventually) be supported by LineageOS?
Ive been intrigued by foldables but have been waiting for the durability kinks to be worked out before indulging. Gonna probably wait a bit longer until there’s some decent de-googled ROMs available before I dive in.
I think the kinks have been worked out. Samsung is on it’s fifth generation of foldables already and Motorola has made multiple as well that haven’t been released in the states. No idea about the custom ROMs though.
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