I have the Edge+. I wanted a Pixel like experience with the benefits of a Snapdragon 8 Gen2. It has generally delivered. The battery life is exceptional in every way. It lasts a long time and also charges in under an hour.
The camera isn't great. For the specific thing I really judge it on, photos of my pets, it's between the Pixel and Galaxy.
I have a case on mine, so the edges do in some ways help with gesture navigation. I'll say it's a little offset on the bottom edge because it feels like all elements on the bottom part of the screen are too low. Fingerprint scanner (although this one is easy to get used to), camera shutter, and the homescreen app shortcuts.
As a whole package, I'm much more satisfied with it than the Pixel 7 Pro. The update situation will be much worse, but it just feels less urgent than it used to. I'm hopeful they can at least make good on their security update promises.
Play Store is just one part of the bigger problem: Google Play Services aka GMS. Unfortunately most proprietary apps cannot run without this, but here comes the solution: microG: “A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries.”
Or for Mainland Chinese devices, their carrier or manufacturer equivalents of GMS aka China Unicom “WO” services and Huawei/Xiaomi/Meizu services respectively (or whatever they are natively called there).
So far I’ve tried Jerboa, liftoff and wefwef. Being a RIF user for many years I feel Jerboa is closest to the UX but I am more comfortable with wefwef. Ask me again tomorrow as I will probably try other alternatives. This is like the good ole Linux distro hopping days when I tried over 30 distros before settling with KDE neon for the last 3 years.
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