Previously on Lemmy: Motorola

Maybe we should just make this a series now.

Never settle for Oneplus.

I’ve always felt that Oneplus is a brand that I should like on principle of having clean software with barebones but powerful hardware, but in reality, every single Oneplus phone I’ve seen always had some sort of big BUTs attached to them, so buying Oneplus always feels like settling.

Take the Oneplus One for example, that sandstone textured cover was THE most creative material I felt a phone could have had, and I’m honestly shocked nobody has ever done it again. But along with that of course, comes with the cringy “smash your phone” marketing campaign, the half-hearted attempt to distance themselves from their parent company Oppo, the whole software mess with CyanogenMod/OxygenOS, etc.

Had a Oneplus 3T for a while, same deal: Great phone when it works as intended, but they raised their price without making the phone better, and the inexplicable random restarts/battery drain is so irritating, never had another phone that does that.

Recently they’ve dropped all pretense of not being Oppo and abandoned their core audience, choosing to have the “courage” to drop the headphone jack. Mediocre Chinese phones with flagship specs are a dime a dozen, I just don’t see a reason to buy them anymore.

  • moon_matter@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I am only slightly better than a “casual” user in terms of Android phones. The most I’ve done is flash LineageOS on my phone. I think smartphones have reached the pinnacle for users like me. Like TVs I’m really wondering where smartphones could possibly go from here. As long as all the apps work and the battery can last a full working day I don’t think I’ll be replacing my 8T any time soon.

    If there’s one thing I’d be looking for it would be Android’s answer to iMessage. But that ball is in Google’s court. Ideally it would be an open protocol, preferably they would just adopt something that already exists, like Matrix Chat.

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      1 year ago

      Matrix does seem to be the way forward, but last time I used Element it was absurdly slow, so I don’t think it’s ready yet.