so yeah… idk why most people buy flagships phones only to open tiktok, facebook, etc.
I mean does anyone actually game on their phone regularly? Like an entire pubg mobile gaming session on it?
Or is it primarily a camera thing.
My theory is I can spend a little more money on a better phone and then use it for years longer than a midrange phone before hungry OS updates finally cripple it.
But what if I have to calculate in the price of a battery replacement before the rest of the system can’t keep up anymore? I haven’t done the math because I don’t want to know.
My SIL buys the top iPhone every 2 years for the camera. She cannot be made to understand that anything newer than an iPhone 4 is TOTALLY FINE for taking photos of a bunch of people sitting around a table not even posing. They just get shrunk down to potato quality before they’re sent to anyone else anyway.
Spouse bought 16 pro Max when trump got elected so we wouldn’t have to upgrade during tarrif season. As for true processing power, probably more than an average user, but I refuse to use the baked in AI nonsense.
Camera/processing speed. For what it’s worth, I regret it and wish I’d gotten a pixel to degoogle.
Nice try Sam, you can’t have my ram.
Nooooo… Think of the poor shareholders 🥺
Camera for me! I buy them used too.
It was a great deal as the previous generation’s flagship, had a large amount of storage space, a good battery, and a decent camera.
I mostly use it to browse the fediverse, take non-fancy pictures, play music, and watch videos in bed. Lifespan will depend entirely on the battery but it has been holding up pretty well for enough years that I don’t remember when I bought it.
Nobody buys Pixels for the processing power. If it weren’t for GrapheneOS I’d be using something compatible with LineageOS, probably.
For me its definitely a camera thing. I recently downgraded from my s20 to a moto G stylus 2025 and while I have noticed a speed difference, the lack of the telescopic lens is killing me bad enough that when I am in a more economically stable state im probably dumping it to go to one with a telescopic again.
I didn’t spend money on it. No shit, I found my Google Pixel 10 Pro XL in a trash can in a park. I legit noticed it was a phone, reached in, took it out, got into it, and found out some fuckass threw away a whole operating phone.
I’m honestly not sure what to do with it, but I might flash Graphene on it and use it as a sidepiece to my iPhone.
…and use it as a sidepiece to my iPhone
Found Jensen Huang’s Lemmy account. 👆
Someone stole a phone and threw it away once they realized they couldn’t get in right away.
do you actually utilize its full processing power
No.
what was the reason you spent that instead of a mid range phone (or even a budget phone)?
Because there was an insane sale and the price was close enough to the midrange and budget models. I bought a Samsung Galaxy S23 for $450.
Or is it primarily a camera thing.
Yes. I bought the Samsung because I love their camera hardware (software, not so much). It also has emotional value to me, because my very first phone that I deliberately chose to buy was a Samsung Galaxy Note 9. Up to the S23, they were also incredibly easy to root using Magisk.
I bought the nubia z60 ultra back when it first came out. Flagship specs for half the price. It’s a great phone, but doesn’t have all the US bands so it’s cell connection is ~80% of my wife’s phone. Still plenty solid.
No I don’t use a fraction of what it’s capable of. I bought it for the screen. 90% of my time on my phone is reading ebooks. I wanted a big screen and above all no cutout/notch, no rounded corners, small bezel as possible. I enjoy the words on my screen going from the very top of the screen to the edges and bottom. 0 margins, all text.
The fast processor is nice so things still feel snappy even years later. My battery still lasts 2 days. I did recently install DroidDeck and it’s nice how well it works. But I don’t really use it as I don’t have a controller and screen controls kinda suck. I prefer to just whip out my steam deck.
I do buy my kids the budget/free phones, and it’s quite obvious how slow they are compared to my phone.
I got a redmagic pro for the processing power hoping it would make the phone last 8 years like my last one did, it’s quick but that thing about cell bands would explain why my wife can get stronger signals than me pretty much everywhere we go. Annoyingly the bluetooth chip failed after less than a year so I can’t use android auto or anything anymore.
Ooof that sucks. Yea that redmagic phone and mine are pretty much the same phone. Luckily I work from home, so most of the time I’m on my wifi. When I first got the phone I was bugging both tmobile and the manufacturer to fix vowifi. Otherwise I really couldn’t send/receive calls at home because of the terrible reception/bands issue. Neither claimed to be at fault and blamed the other, but magically after yet more back and forth a phone update popped up from the manufacturer and it’s been working great since.
Nice try, Sam Altman.
No. I wish I could, but I have yet to come across any android software that warrants such high processing power. Samsung S21 FE, by the way. While not a flagship any more, it used to be.
I got it because my employer at the time paid for it; My current phone was dying after years of abuse in a rather rough working environment. I was out and about doing field work, so the last call I made was to my coworker who handled “normal” IT stuff, including phones, so he pointed me in the direction of the closest place where our vendor (a large consumer electronics chain) had a store.
Upon arrival my coworker had already authorized the transaction of whatever phone I ended up with, and the bill would be sent to the head office. S21 FE was what they had in stock there and then, and I needed a new phone fast.
