They've got some Motorola thing that was an upgrade over whatever Samsung A series they had before. Both newer phones than mine, I'm plugging along on my dad's old hand me down samsung galaxy s7 edge. It's slow as shit but their phone is even slower! It really seems like every advantage in computational improvement in every internet connected device just gets eaten up by more tracking bullshit and more unoptimized apps and it ends up being clunky and shit again
I need to get SOMETHING because the fucking NERDS who run everything have decided my device is too old to run their bullshit apps. Like I had 10 texts from a pharmacy yesterday telling me to use their app for everything. Ah, but guess what i can't do
If i spend hundreds of precious dollars on something i intend to have another 10 year long usage lifespan and it's even worse performance wise than what i got now im gonna scream. And post annoying complaints about how my own lack of consumer savvy fucked me
Honestly, a used pixel is probably the best bet for you. The Pixel 11 is supposed to come out in October and it'll be an AI Slop nightmare. Picking up a 1 year old used pixel 10 is probably the right call.
Didn't the 10 still have built in gemini stuff?
Absolutely, they all do. It's literally unavoidable on any new phone. :(
I just turn all that shit off. Could always go for an 8 or 9.
8 still has a decent support lifespan left AFAIK, I might end up switching to it once 6 support gets dropped (also I recommend using something like GrapheneOS instead of stock Android)
Yeah and it randomly pops up all the time.