I feel like the consumers who get these devices are definitely tolerating a lot of compromise just to have the toy. It’s vulnerable to so much going bad and even when it’s perfect and factory new, many of the ones I’ve seen are not quite flat and you can definitely see the crease very noticeable.

So I suppose sufficient consumers were willing to accept a device that is not quite there yet, as a way to finance the manufacturers’ further refinement of the feature. Personally I would not. If I ever get a folding one it’s going to be when it’s perfected and the fold is seamless and undetectable.

My sentiments exactly. Anyone worried about this can suck it, our society is crumbling.

Ah. Makes sense.

Yeah but it’s a hardware keyboard, not a screen-keyboard. I am not saying that means it won’t work - I definitely don’t know - but it’s conspicuous they focused on it briefly. SHRUG lol I’m sure there will be a hack for it if it doesn’t already behave how people want.

Yup. Definitely an awful design choice.

I wish they could be like overclocked to make the most of one if you’re stuck with a mediatek chip device. I got a new Galaxy Tab A7 Lite several months back and yeah it was very cheap but its SOOO sluggish! Lag lag lag for almost every single thing! I’m considering selling it off unless I can manage to find a GSI build because all of the few ROMs that were posted for it are not online anymore. If I can manage to find anything it could be made to perform quite well, but as it is with Samsung’s awful One-UI it can literally sometimes not handle entering the settings app!

And you have to hold down the shift or Fn while hitting the desired key. Like a freaking desktop keyboard. No sticky. Wtf is up with that?

I rarely get anything from the play store. Usually f-droid or one of the other apps like Droidify or Izzy, and Aurora. Once in a while an app demands to verify with the Play store for the life of me I have no idea why… Plexus has helped with that sometimes, but sometimes doesn’t work.

Yeah they want it as much as they want AI so like not at all. Good riddance to both!

Exactly my reaction! Like, yay! They’re taking it away :-D

Ewww. Such fucking useless imposition of restrictions that should be the user’s decision. Like almost everything else in technology nowadays where control is being taken away from the user.

I’m only ever going to use devices that I can put whatever custom ROM I want on or that natively supports the options I want.

As long as the general public just bends over and accepts this shit, they’ll keep doing stuff like this.

Wait, am I to understand they’re intending on making it that you cannot just install any apk you choose because it’s your phone and your business? Is that going to be no longer possible?

On top of those severe restrictions of Lineage I don’t even like that you can’t move apps to the SD. I’ve tried formatting SD as internal storage. I’ve tried a dozen different SD chips on a dozen different phones with a dozen versions of Android. And EVERY one of them failed after a brief moment with some errors and corrupted the chip. Every attempt.

So I use them as external and on other Android devices I have no problem moving apps over to them. I don’t move all types of apps, but ones that are mostly referential like icon packs or reference apps, there’s no justification to not allowing it.

Excellent! Thanks for the endorsement, I’ll have a look. A reputable site is always something to hold onto.

Yeah there’s absolutely zero integrity so it’s really always going to be word of mouth for me. But most people don’t think that much about it they just fall for one advertisement or review or claim etc.

Anyone know if this is a reliable review? 99% of “reviews,” nowadays are just paid by the manufacturer to advertise under the guise of being a review.

Looks interesting. Especially Si/C battery of which I’ve not yet heard.

Yeah I’m not really disagreeing with you it’s just I don’t run anything that’s as privacy-necessary as you. My actual phone is iPhone and all the Android stuff I experiment with are lab systems for tinkering, rom mod testing etc. If I had anything that was being used for any really private or sensitive data, hell yes I would use something completely detached from anything google.

Well, it may be ideal, but that is not the same as absolutely necessary.

That’s one approach but far more limited than just using a Google-free Android build like Lineage.

I mean, nothing is forcing anyone to use any specific product, and there are certainly smartphones with neither Android or iOS.

Personally, at some point I will switch from iPhone to an Android device that can work with something independent like /e/ or one of the other decent ones.