Sharp Aquos R10 is scheduled to launch in early July in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Indonesia

Personally in Singapore I don’t think I have seen anyone with a Sharp phone.

It reminds me of Sony QX series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_ILCE-QX1

Instead of assuming, why not check the app yourself to see if they are real people?

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

You can download the app and see for yourself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe Fennec

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

Unfortunately yes.

Ethiopia has already banned sales of new combustion cars as of February this year.

https://electrek.co/2024/02/02/it-begins-ethiopia-set-to-become-first-country-to-ban-internal-combustion-cars/

HarmonyOS Next AFAIK does not run on the Linux kernel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_kernel

Technically it does not run android.

I believe QR payments are popular in India as well.

The EU Wants Chinese car factories to operate locally.

Chinese EV maker BYD welcome to open factory in France, French finance minister says

European nations compete for Chinese EV factories, jobs even as EU weighs tariffs

China’s Dongfeng in pole position to build an auto plant in Italy - Italian sources

It doesn’t seem to be a full system update but a SmartThings Framework update that caused the issue.

The 5 year battery warranty is good to have. Hopefully it forces other OEMs to do the same.

Yes

For the case for my poco x3 I only debloated once when I got my phone and it remain bloatware free ever since.

From my understanding its mostly legacy automakers that are unable to sell EVs effectively. However EV sales overall are up from EV manufacturers like Tesla & BYD etc.

Debloat with adb or shizuku?

What news reports did you read that lead you to believe that the EV market is dying?

That starts at $50,990

Nothing to see here.