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Phones are feature complete. No huge compelling reason to upgrade. If you work for a living then it makes no sense to spend money on upgrading if you already ha
by ronnier 3y ago
Phones are feature complete. No huge compelling reason to upgrade. If you work for a living then it makes no sense to spend money on upgrading if you already have a relatively newish phone
- raisedbyninjas 3y agoThe last couple of times I upgraded, bloat in maps navigation was reason enough to upgrade to a faster phone. I don't want a sluggish UI while driving. Hoping Google doesn't cram much more ads or junk into the maps app or Waze.
- the-anarchist 3y agoTry OsmAnd, it's great!
- lallysingh 3y agoThe maps are fantastic but I've had real trouble finding places or street addresses there
- aqfamnzc 3y agoThe data is taken from OpenStreetMap, which is like Wikipedia for maps. You can improve coverage in your area!
- blackbear_ 3y agoActually, map rendering in OsmAnd embarrassingly slow, even on mosern-ish phones. Try organic maps instead
- e44858 3y agoIt's gotten a lot faster a few months ago when they started using OpenGL instead of CPU rendering.
- aqfamnzc 3y agoOsmAnd is actually one of the main reasons I'm considering upgrading my phone. The 6GB memory in my P5a is apparently not sufficient to take a photo and not kill OsmAnd in the background...
- hehx 3y agoI read somewhere its similar to the singer sewing machine story. They kept adding new features every year but once most people who had a sewing machine sales tanked.
- huytersd 3y agoIt would be nice to have full LIDAR based 3D scanning on phones, one for better imaging and two to provide datasets for 2D to 3D LLMs.
- Balero 3y agoYou have to admit that is an extremely niche requirement.
- huytersd 3y agoOh yeah
- dangus 3y agoIt does a bunch of really useful things, though. It improves general camera performance by having an accurate depth scan. Things like portrait mode and object recognition benefit. The Measure app is quietly one of the most amazing apps in existence. You can get an accurate measurement of anything anytime! The lidar sensor makes it far more accurate and less finnicky than on the non-Pro phones. Obviously on its own it’s not worth an upgrade but it’s a great sensor to have on a phone.
- CSMastermind 3y agoYeah Apple's Lidar sensor is one of the most compelling features on their phones. I'm seriously considering switching from Android to iPhone for the first time in my life in part because of it.
- lazycouchpotato 3y agoI've always wondered Android manufacturers copy the wrong things from Apple and not the cool things like the LiDAR sensor. The LiDAR on the iPhone is faster but produces less detailed models. Photogrammetry is slower but produces higher resolution models [1]. I don't know if I would drop $1000+ just for that though. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN_4BnzzRj0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN_4BnzzRj0
- Dwedit 3y agoNo, there still is a reason to need to replace a perfectly good phone, and it is purely software related. Manufacturers stop supporting their OS for phones, leaving you with something obsolete with lots of security holes. App makers enforce a minimum version of Android. Even if you can unlock your bootloader and install a new version of Android OS, you will still get screwed over by SafetyNet, good luck installing any banking apps.