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Samsung S10 and S10+ looks to me like the place to be, flashed w/ a custom degoogled ROM. Nokia Maps (here wego), Open Camera, something like Aptoide, K9 mail.
by soylentnewsorg 5y ago
Samsung S10 and S10+ looks to me like the place to be, flashed w/ a custom degoogled ROM. Nokia Maps (here wego), Open Camera, something like Aptoide, K9 mail.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/c/samsung-galaxy-s10.8693/ https://forum.xda-developers.com/c/samsung-galaxy-s10.8693/
I did a lot of research earlier, because I don't use a case, dropped my pixel 2xl, and the glass on the corner cracked. I ended up just putting a dab of epoxy on it instead though. I use the carbonOS ROM on the pixel, which os only for pixels I think. You do have to go through a lot of system services and turn off the unneeded ones though. Lots of useless stuff like "carrier services" and "sprint dm" and a bunch of other crap - just google them one by one. An app like Fibers is great too - I use it to do things like display percentages instead of icons, and when I need turn off half the screen pixels. You can do that in low brightness situations like reading this site in bed w/ the lights off, and you can't tell it's half the resolution. Adguard is great too - blocking ads at the DNS level saves quite a bit of battery when online.
Now here's the main thing - I do spend a couple of hours per day using it - either for email or reading sites. I get about 4 days from 90% to 25%. I never go below 25% or above 90% - my battery is like new 3+ years later. Another feature that an iphone can't have - an app having access to limit your max charge limit. I'm just guessing that 100%-0% is going to be about 7 days, so I can't fully promise that.
Also, a couple of banking apps don't work. The Uber app doesn't work either - you have to use the website versions.
- vanilla_nut 5y agoAll of that sounds good except for the phone size. I'd go for a Pixel 5, but... no 3.5mm jack is a dealbreaker. So I guess the Pixel 4a is my only real choice.
- cjonas 5y agoWhy not 5a? Had headphone jack + other improvements for maybe 150 more...
- vanilla_nut 5y agoSadly it's just too big for me. The 4a is about as large as I'd go. And I'm even skeptical of that because as networks phase out 3G and even some 4G bands in favor of 5G, phones that don't support 5G will become increasingly hard to use. Talk about planned obsolescence!
- soylentnewsorg 5y agoYou're ok w/ a pixel5 size (6" screen) but you're not ok w/ s10 size (6.1" and has headphone jack)? And the actual phone size of the S10 is smaller than the nexus 5 you mentioned.
- vanilla_nut 5y agoThe S10 is larger than the Pixel 5 or the Nexus 5: https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Google-Nexus-5,Samsung-Galaxy-S10,Google-Pixel-5/phones/8148,10959,11394 https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Google-Nexus-5,Samsun... The Pixel 5 is larger than the nexus 5, but it's almost in the range of reasonableness. The S10 is well past that size range -- there's no way I can reach the top of the screen. Admittedly, it is nice that the S10 includes a headphone jack. But phone size is even more important than that to me. Guess I'll keep using my 2016 iPhone SE for a couple more years!