Is exynos 2200 that big of a dealbreaker? I’m also open to buying pixel series phones.

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    You should just buy what you can afford in cash without sacrificing your day to day. No phones are worth high price tags, the industry stagnated and is nothing but paying for buzzwords now

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      1 year ago

      Yup that’s what I’ve also been thinking. I just have to upgrade because my current phone doesn’t support 5g and a Black Friday like festival sale is around the corner at where I live. Had made up my mind to buy S23 but they didn’t slash prices enough this year because of the launch of FE, which is a big turn off.

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      1 year ago

      buy what you can afford

      Generally a good idea with everything tech. It tends to get better and cheaper. So 100% don’t buy features you don’t need.

      the industry stagnated and is nothing but paying for buzzwords now

      I disagree, while it may be somewhat true on innovation, there are significant incremental improvements from generation to generation. Both in more powerful and efficient SOC in both CPU and GPU. Better Cameras, and better screens that have better nits and efficiency, and also some software features.

      I’m especially impressed by SOC improvements, considering the expense has become insane to use the better production processes. The complexity of it is so extreme. The collective effort to put a new SOC product to production is estimated at about 50000 people. Just one EUV light needed to make a 4nm SOC cost about $100 million! Still they continue to progress the technology, despite the mind boggling difficulties.

      The same goes for cameras, they improve significantly each year. An ordinary phone today can do what would take 1000s of dollars of equipment before digital photography. And digital photography started out being pretty bad, with the only advantage being you didn’t need film. And it’s still improving.

      Flip phones might not be completely new, but they are improving and getting cheaper, that’s at least one form of innovation. So the industry isn’t entirely dead yet.