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    1 year ago

    And an unlockable bootloader.

    Decent CPU and RAM.

    High rate screen

    Unlockable bootloader

    SD card

    Removable battery.

    Such a phone would be an instant buy for me, but nobody wants to make them

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              If you call snapdragon 778 a shit cpu and want all those features, you will not be getting a smartphone for a long time. I have used smartphones with half the processing power of 778, and they all work fine. My point being, fairphone 5 is the closest to that ideal smartphone, yet you dismiss it based on SoC alone. Snapdragon 778 is anything but shit.

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                I have used smartphones with half the processing power of 778, and they all work fine.

                And that’s fine, but I don’t want the chip from 5 years ago, I want to chip with modern performance that can do any modern task you can throw at it like driving a high refreshed screen when playing random video games.

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      I have pixel 5 and 6. I got tired of my six only lasting half a day without needing a charge so I switched back to the pixel 5 with lineage os. I can routinely get 2 days worth of normal use on a single charge plus I prefer the smaller form factor. An SD slot would be nice, I’ve got 100+gb of FLAC music on my phone.

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        I’d trade my pixel 7 pro back for my old 5 in a heartbeat (were it not destroyed). Besides the better form factor and better android 11 UI on the pixel 5, which are admittedly subjective, the pixel 5 can do several things the pixel 7 pro cannot:

        • be used outdoors in summer (or in direct sunlight anytime),

        • get a through a full day without having to charge,

        • includes a better fingerprint sensor (more reliable, has capacitive gesture, doesn’t spit out blinding light, more ergonomic position),

        • includes a far better screen (curved edges with persistent glare are the literal worst - not to mention how breakable they are).

        • be placed on a surface without a case and without sliding around on some stupid frictionless and delicate glass back panel.

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      The Galaxy S5 is still ahead of its time today. Minus high refresh rate because 60hz was the standard in 2014, but it also had a headphone jack and heart rate sensor built in as well.

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      I used to buy it and root right away, but always having to dance around safetynet was a pain. havent been rooted in a while :l

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      1 year ago

      Such a phone would be everyone’s dream to be honest. 🌠📱

      My phone (Moto G8 Play) does have a microSD slot and a headphone jack, while in terms of hardware is the bare minimum nowadays (only having 2GB of RAM).

      But at the very least having a Motorola is probably the 2nd best thing when it comes to minimal bloatware.