I love this!

I wonder if anyone under the age of ~30 would get the meme.

Even more dependence on corrupt American oligarch gangs.

My weather app/widget already does those recommendations.

I am pretty sure this was true even before the transformer model was invented.

I am with you on this, I too want to minimize usage/spend on both American and Chinese products/services.

But for personally, custom ROMs have too many drawbacks for use as a daily driver.

There is also less need for custom ROMs. One of the first custom ROMs that I used was for Galaxy Note 3. Following their disasterous Android 5.0 update, I decided to try out LineageOS.

It was like night and day. It was much more responsive and UI/UX was cleaner while offering more customisation.

These days smartphone devices (even cheaper ones) remain very performant even 3-4 years after release (battery notwithstanding) and most OEM have long support periods.

An actually useful feature in a new Android release!

Don’t think this an OS issue per se. Both timed and sunset/sunrise work great on OneUI and Nova Launcher.

24GB? My grandma’s desktop is still on 6 GB RAM (she only uses the browser and media player).

I would recommend the following commercial games with fair monetizaion (B2P, DLC only)

Project Highrise:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kalypsomedia.projecthighrise

The Final Earth:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.FlorianVanStrien.TheFinalEarth

Both are well made tower builders in the vein of SimTower (they both have excellent PC versions as well).

The price is only worth it if you want a phone that stands out and is unique.

Otherwise it’s simply too expensive for what it is.

Smartphones are a mature market and outside of “status symbol” and brand considerations, it honestly makes no sense for the vast majority of people to spend more than USD $400 equivalent on a smartphone.

Even camera quality is increasingly becoming good enough on mid-range devices.

Considering Google’s failure to support the tablet form factor on Android (many 1st party Google apps have much better versions for the iPad), I am skeptical this will lead to anything good.

With hardware you will always have higher per unit costs for more niche product lines due to weaker economies of scale.

It’s true for hardware products that are free (as in freedom) or apple products (e.g. Vision Pro).

Not much we can do about this, short of a revolution in 3D printing and distribution systems (you will never be able to 3D print all components; e.g. semiconductors).

I could see book-style foldables becoming more popular if the pride goes down, I thought they were useful in showroom testing.

But you are right, prices are still very high.

Findroid - a Jellyfin client for Android.

SimpleTextEditor - open source notepad type app for Android.

The larger book-style foldables are really the ones we should be questioning, considering their price, durability issues and lack of a clear reason to exist.

I am not sure I agree.

Back in 2014/2015, we still used the term “phablet”, fast-forward ~10 years and almost all smartphones have become “phablets” with compact devices (what would be a regular device in 2014) have become extremely niche.

I’ve only used the book-style foldables in a Samsung showroom, they seemed fine, just very expensive.

The price should eventually come down.

I’ve only used it as a search engine for finding public data sources and general business research.

The search result summaries and search results categorization style is helpful.

For this use case it works much better than ChatGPT and Le Chat.

4,000 ST in Geekbench 6 is a very high score by modern standards.

I believe it’s at least partially tied to Android’s architecture, for example how you need to “optimize apps” on first boot.

They are going to play around with it for a bit, but they will abandon the system once it does get 12 quadrillion MAUs in the first quarter of release.

Instead, the AR glasses maker finally revealed that Aura won’t be processing data on the glasses itself. It will instead use a separate, tethered, puck-like device that sits in your pocket. Like Xreal’s other products, such as its recent One Pro, the glasses have the in-built wire, though you’ll be able to disconnect from the processing device if you want to store the glasses and puck separately.

This does not seem viable.