I am going to get this phone due to my carriers deals but, S23 battery has gotten significantly worse over the course of a year. Software updates have absolutely killed it, it’s about 1pm and I’m halfway through my battery, which isn’t as good as I used to get.
For those who want a good chip the 8 Gen 2 is the best I have ever used.
You just made me put on my tinfoil hat. Because AI uses so much RAM and resources, and all these OS’s are implementing them on-device, this would be the ideal way to slow down all previous generation devices and force customers to buy new ones! Heck, even if they do onboard the AI software efficiently, they’d probably use it as the perfect excuse to slow them down anyway. Imagine how big the OneUI 7.0 update with AI would be. 30GB of internal storage and occupying 90% of RAM at all times, perhaps?
I wasn’t even thinking about the performance/efficiency impact! That’s a good point. For me, I like me phone to do what I want it to do. I didn’t ask for AI. I don’t need it. I actually don’t even want it - I really don’t want my devices to ‘think’. What I want is fast, efficient, and predictable execution of what I tell it to do. (by predictable, I mean that I don’t want it to anticipate my needs or surprise me - I want a nice, responsive and dumb device with a great display, a good camera, good connectivity, and a good battery.
Someone mentioned a rumor on Reddit about the possibility of the Ultra having the SD Card returning. Anyone have the Vegas odds on that, because that would be the most exciting news a Samsung release would have had in years.
Good luck to Lenovo and all the others, but the Steam Deck has changed my life and it’s such a versatile and magical device for a modest price, and Windows-free to boot, that I’m not even considering any of these other ones.
“It will sport Windows 11” Lost me there. I’ll go with the Steam Deck when it’s time for me to buy a handheld. It’s a shame, too. I love my Lenovo Legion gaming laptop, especially for the battery saving options. When it’s time for me to upgrade, I hope the Legion laptops continue to be compatible with Linux.
I think that if Lenovo wants to go with Windows 11 as its default in its handheld, it’s because it wants to steal market share from the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch. I’ve been using the Lenovo Legion now for 2 plus years and I’m happy with it because I can keep Windows out of my life and it has a 17" screen. ALL of my games work for me, mostly because my modern game library is stuff I bought on Steam, so for me a Steam Deck makes sense. My old games work for me because they came out before DRM stuff. I guess I got lucky and started using Steam early on (like, lots of years ago). The only reason why gaming is better on Linux today is because of Steam, actually. The reason why my Lenovo Legion laptop works great with Linux has nothing to do with that. When I bought it new, it was configured with the right hardware that the kernel could understand. As a matter of fact, at that time I bought the computer with no OS pre-installed. If I get another, it will need to have the same size screen and no OS installed. If Lenovo doesn’t do that, time to move on. But, where I live, 17" screens on laptops are hard to find these days. My system will probably last me a few more years, though. so there’s hope. Lenovo laptops are awesome for battery conservation, so for me that’s important.
Valve really ought to make SteamOS available to other manufacturers. It's what they were originally planning to do with the Steam Machines, and it'd be a huge driver of customers into Steam. (And Linux!)
I'm not just saying that as a Linux fan though, Windows has proven to not be very suited for devices like this.
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