This is a broader problem with electronics as a whole. Past a certain point better processors didn't result in better computers, devs just wrote worse code. So modern computers don't feel that much faster in some cases.
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2026
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sounds like you're running your phones stock, with all the google spyware running in the background, along with the facebook crap; that shit ain't just hanging back, dormant until you need it. that's why you need the extra speed and RAM and storage, all that shit is constantly rummaging around the phone and sending stuff home.
get an ex-flagship with e.g. SDM8xx that has lineageOS support for like $50 and play around, you'll find that no part of that thing is slow.
universal android debloater helps a lot. remove all google/oem/carrier bs
also, there are treble gsi roms that work (mostly) universally. if bootloader can be unlocked, it may be trivial to get custom roms like lineageos on an unpopular phone.
I haven't spent more than €350 on a smartphone ever. There is absolutely no need. All I do with it is browse Lemmy and do some messaging, a potato could handle that. When I see all these new foldable phones or SoCs that can run an LLM by itself on 16GB RAM, I ask myself why would I even want that. I'm content with my Moto 50 edge neo. Mid-range SoC, plenty of RAM, 512GB ROM. There's no way I'll ever need more.
Plus it does Dolby Atmos, HDR, WiFi 6, gets plenty of updates, decent battery life and as close to stock Android as you could hope for these days.
I had tried my friend's Edge 50 neo. The phone was very compact and had good battery life thanks to the efficient LTPO display.
My Nokia N900 with its paltry 128 MB RAM had better multitasking than a modern Android. It's a farce.
I remember the Moto E. Phone wasn't that good. My proper first phone was a Moto G (original gen 1).
I distinctly remember Pokémon Go not working very well.... I think that's Pokémon Go's fault. Still has issues on my pixel.
We hit a plateau around 2020. Watch Apple's keynotes when they compare performance to the "competition." You'll notice they never specify what, exactly. It's fine when they compare to their own past generations, but they never give solid numbers, they just throw ballpark figures out. When they bust out the charts, they don't tell you what they're comparing with. (Android keynotes, the ones I've watched from Google and Samsung, tend to focus more on features, since they're selling phones and software — Google buys their chips and Samsung does as well in addition to making chips for others.)
I have an iPhone from 2024 (16 Pro Max, so the top model, and now the second-most powerful model) and a Galaxy S10 from 2019. The S10 is still better at a few things, and hardly a bad phone in any regard (except, it's not being used as a phone, it has no cell service, it's just a WiFi device at this point).
Shitty apps are going to continue to bloat. They do on iOS as well. Only, we can't delete cache. You have to uninstall and reinstall. It's kinda shit in that regard (and others, to be fair).
The key isn't to avoid the top phones, it's to stop buying the latest top phone. Buy one from a year or two ago. iPhones lose half their value every year. It's worse for Android. Of course, those are the values from the manufacturers. You always get more selling privately. But when the new ones come out, people are looking to sell their old ones. Give them a fair deal and get a phone for a fraction of what it cost new. Also, a used phone purchase is not a new phone purchased, so it hurts their numbers (I mean, instead of the seller selling to the manufacturer and you both buy new phones, you buy from the seller and the seller buys a new phone, so it's 1 new sale instead of 2).
The Moto G 1st gen was my favourite phone of all time. RIP :')
Devs please stop making apps big, CPU/RAM heavy. Apps like Facebook/Instagram should be shamed they are 1GB each.
Facebook and instagram don't care. They have grown complacent. People will use their apps regardless of how much battery it will use. Are you willing to stop using bloated apps until they improve?
Phone/SoC reviews are a scam, they say SD 363 is 50% better than SD 625. I don't think it is a very big leak from SD625 to 7s Gen 2.
7s gen 2 was released in 2023. The cortex A78 cores used were launched in 2020. They are old plus the soc was not that powerful to begin with. If you want to run battery hogs like instagram and facebook be ready to sacrifice performance and battery.
I think I am going to boycott high tier phones.
You should instead buy a good upper midrange or high end phone once and upgrade only after the current phone stops receiving updates. Smartphones have become very mature and don't bring ground breaking changes any more.