Yes, it has been fully capable of performing the daily tasks that I throw at it. Only downsides really is that it no longer receives support from Samsung.
What Phone Did I have Previously:
My previous phones were a LG Q6 and I believe an iPhone 6 or 7. Honestly as much as I love Android, the iPhone was leaps and bounds better then what the LG Q6 was able to provide. That’s mainly more a statement of how bad LG was at making actually interesting phones that were good.
How often do I upgrade:
My A50 is a hand-me-down so atm I don’t really decide when I get a new phone lol.
What other Android Ecosystem Devices do I have?
If it counts, Google Home Mini (have had it for quite a few years)
Do you have any Apple products and/or Microsoft, Linux, etc…
No, I don not own any Apple products of any sort. I own an Xbox Series X, a Windows Laptop from Asus, a Google Home Mini along with a Amazon Alexa (well technically that wasn’t mines originally I’m just “borrowing” it because it was just left disconnected.) Lastly I have a pair of Jabra Elite 3’s which have been pretty good.
No clue about the s pen. However, I’ve been using Cyanogenmod/Lineage Since the Samsung S2 (yep, that old thing) and use it on Tab S2, S2ve, S5e and Nokia 6.1. The last 2 have Lineage 20 running, runs smoothly, as you get rid of tons of Samsung/Nokia junk.
The Tab S2ve is finally to slow to run the worst written games (CSR2), but works perfect for everything else. (Even an old Tab 3 and Tab 4 run nicely with it, when you’re not running resource hungry games)
Longer software support is almost an assurance, as Samsung quits pretty fast. It just depends on the devs, the 2011 S2 (i9100) is getting Lineage 20 as well. It’s all about what the devs can do. (have hardware for)
This leads me to think that Google is planning on an AR/VR product like the Vision Pro and so they want to make 3D icons and UI elements more prominent (to make the transition easier, the same reason we had 3D icons at the start of computers and smartphones as well), kind of like what Apple did in the last 2-3 years with their new Icons (like on MacOS, they added back a lot of depth with Big Sur)
I kinda like it, and hope we see more of this. Maybe skeuomorphism is not the best idea for UI elements these days, but for things like icons it makes perfect sense.
Many apps in iOS still use beautifully detailed icons which make for eyecandy without sacrificing functionality.
Pixel and Graphene OS are the only combo that exists any more IMO. You can take full ownership over yourself again. I’ve bought two in a row just for this combo after having every other Samy S Flag from 3-9. I’ll never go back or to the fruit. I am not a slave to my device’s bloatware and no one is stalking me recording everything I do and say 24/7 like when a phone has google services garbage baked in. I could run that stuff sandbox on Graphene if I wanted to but F that. I don’t need or want that trash.
I have the s23 and s23u and had a Pixel 7. Avoid the Pixel, it’s worse than the Galaxy in every aspects- only the still-camera performance is better. My biggest gripes with the Pixel 7 were the non-working biometric, terrible front camera, phone heats up terribly and unreliable software that reduces performance randomly.
Just keep using whatever phone you have or get used iphone imo. I have the s23s only because of the Google Fi deals a few months ago.
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