Seven-year software update policy of Galaxy S24 and Pixel 8 smartphones "misses the point," says OnePlus president

[indy]

OnePlus 12R for $400 after trade-in and 4-5 years of support is the best value online right now.

He's right, to an extent. Have never seen a phone 4 years or older that didn't have some sort of issue.

And pixel phones/tensor is vastly inferior to modern snapdragons, so his point is even more bullseye. The pixel 8 will be MOLASSES in 7 years compared to even the lowest budget phones in 2029.

[NikoB]

there

Samsung cannot give anyone the opportunity to unlock the bootloader with one button - because... then there is no point in SafeBoot and control of smartphones by manufacturers at the firmware level.

I'm thinking of ordering a SD8+1 phone from 2 years ago, that is heavily discounted now

it's meh though, normal battery life started with 8gen2

complete impudence on the part of smartphone manufacturers - they refuse to unlock the bootloader on a smartphone, at the request of the owners

there is literally a button in samsung phones to unlock bootloader lol

Unfortunately, I didn't make a backup of the smartphone's flash; due to laziness,

if you don't know apkmirror exists you aren't qualified enough to pick what software you can install, google was right to screw you up, at least you got all the security patches

Downloading individual apk does not solve the general problem of lack of full control over the smartphone if Google services are required. They deliberately made everything so that blocking update attempts leads to the inoperability of some of the necessary applications. Before you blurt out something, think, or better yet, read what I've been writing here for several years.

[lmao]

Downloading individual apk does not solve the general problem of lack of full control over the smartphone if Google services are required. They deliberately made everything so that blocking update attempts leads to the inoperability of some of the necessary applications. Before you blurt out something, think, or better yet, read what I've been writing here for several years.

monologues of "power user" who can't even keep his apps from updating