Verizon is very protective over their network and always has been. They used CDMA for years just to lock out outside competition amongst other walled garden bullshit. When they moved to GSM they still tried to lock their network to a whitelist of phone IMEIs they control. They do not want you to buy an unlocked phone from a brand they do not get paid by to be put on the whitelist support.
Android devs spent years optimizing for tall aspect ratios and now we’re straight up being sold a device that is squat and won’t show all of the user view on the outer screen? I’m so confused who would want less onscreen lmao.
I find it hilarious that people are flocking to a device with less repairability and durability… if I had to guess, normies are ditching their laptops/tablets and getting a foldable instead.
My thing is that I use the iPad app with the pencil. The last time I tried GIMP it was great.
Leaving this here for Photoshop converts
https://github.com/Diolinux/Photogimp
I use Affinity full time at the moment, but if they ever go paid, I’m running straight to GIMP.
I stayed on my iPhone 🙁 I really wanted to switch now that AirDrop and Universal Clipboard are coming to everyone. Samsung is a nice alternative, but I’m turned all the way off by them using non-flagship tiered chips in the Galaxy pad since I was going to buy the whole ecosystem. I’m taking it year by year, considering that there are other annoyances I’m unable to cope with.
Pixel phones are a nonstarter because Tensor is so unbelievably underpowered. I’m not paying full price for a chipset that lags behind 5 year old snapdragon phones.
Frankly unacceptable results 🙁 guess I’ll check back in with the pixel next year.
Background blur is one of the things making me stuck on iOS. Blur algorithms run performantly on hardware older than what you have, so don’t sweat it.
I really liked the O+15 but returned it within the return window after the rumors of exiting the US started. I was able to look past the lack of UWB, but not a loss of software support…
Tensor better match the 8Elite G5
It looks cheap and as if it’s designed for super low end hardware that can’t handle blur effects. I can’t wait for the Android integration features to get poached and put into Linux though.
I highly doubt there would be one. I imagine entire optics engineering departments are deployed to write that software. Phone manufacturers don’t usually write that software either; it’s more often than not licensed.
Fun fact, Sony’s phones break the camera software if you root them. I wonder how much of it is to protect their blobs.
I bought a 1+15 and returned it within my return window when the rumors started. It’s such a shame, because it was a really good phone. Only thing it’s missing is UWB and US mmWave.
FUCKING FINALLY
This is so unbelievably unacceptable to not be matching the latest snapdragon. Kill this smartphone, put it out of its misery.
The past few years they’ve been particularly behind snapdragon. It’s a fucking shame, because I want to get one, but not unless they’re on par with the A series or snapdragon.
Ask your local university facilities department about their overstock policy. The university of Arizona literally has a warehouse where you can peruse their old computers and furniture and buy at Craigslist prices.
I guarantee you that there’ll be a no-steam driver for this in a matter of months.
Make consumers extremely aware of the taxes they pay so that anytime reducing taxes on the rich comes up they think “yeah, I hate taxes, let’s lower them!”
This is the answer.
AT&T started using a whitelist too at some point. T-Mobile is the last major carrier left to not care what phone you use.