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Up until the S9, I considered the Galaxy series of phones to be basically worth their weight in gold, as they were the one holdout with things like headphone jacks and expandable storage. Sure, they preloaded cloud crap, but they were throwing everything at the wall at once.
From the S20 onward, they were the lesser evil, having abandoned those things, and seeming to charge more for extra storage with each generation. But they were still smooth, their camera still put out pictures that impressed me, and using Gboard didn't result in the swipe jitter I'd always experience on a comparable Pixel device.
Sounds like when my S23 dies, I'll be shopping around more seriously. AI is not a feature. The cloud is not a feature. It's an anti-feature, giving the manufacturer the ability to alter your bargain with them at any time, with the only limit being the law.
Same. Pixel + GrapheneOS sounds like the move for most now.
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What’s the issue with the Pixel cameras? I thought they were typically one of the selling points of the phone? Maybe I haven’t paid enough attention to recent reviews (been on iOS for a few years now, but want to switch back to Android).
You can install the pixel camera on graphene and it functions exactly the same as the stock OS
Because Google doesn't have root access to your phone. You can install the pixel camera but give it no network permissions. It's just another camera app at that point
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