• ColdWater@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Lockd bootloader=dead weight and useless after a couple of years, even if it let you replace CPU RAM by your self and I hate phones with locked bootloader

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    OS ceasing to get support is what leads to a device becoming obsolete these days rather than the hardware.

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    1 month ago

    Nice to see that other companies are finally trying to make a phone that can actually compete with the fairphone. Still not as repairable as the fairphone though, and its unacceptable to have a locked bootloader.

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    I mean its great that it is repairable, but not so much if pretty much everything else is a compromise for the MSRP.

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    Idk what it is worth but I am happy to see more companies competing with Fairphone.

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    1 month ago

    It has Qi2 at least which seems to be impossible for other Android vendors to implement.

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    You’re not getting Samsung or Google software support unless you buy Samsung or Google phone. You can just apply this to pretty much every Android phone that isn’t made by those two.

    So basically every phone that isn’t made by Samsung or Google will never be considered to the majority of techies and phone nerds.

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      Don’t know how it is in the US, but you don’t get any support for Pixel where I live.

      Samsung on the other hand is excellent, they even have retail locations.

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        I fail to understand how that information is essential to the topic at hand. The device could be MAXED OUT on specs, nerds will always cry about software support. And 3 yrs isn’t enough to them.

        Now yall can downvote all ya’d like. But you know I’m speaking the truth. There is no amount of hardware that will get American nerds to accept anything less that what Samsung or Google offer for software support.

        I can prove this extremely easily. Anyone could.