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Not until they use snapdragon elite or the newest flagship
Why though? Unless you're really into mobile gaming, I don't see any difference in day to day usage compared to more mid-range SoCs.
I so strongly disagree with that. The Snapdragon 7 gen 4 in the Fairphone6 is roughly on par with the Snapdragon 888 from 2020 (S21 series). You couldn’t pay me to daily drive an S21 Ultra, let alone pay 67% of an S25 (a mid cycle phone) for a phone with a 4 year old performance profile. 600$ can be a used S24 Ultra.
Android app devs just don’t optimize their apps enough that I’d be comfortable rocking this phone 3 years from now, which if I did, I’d be using a 7 year old processor at that point. No one in their right mind should have a phone that old.
Using a Pixel 8a with a Tensor G3, a chip that's regularly called a bit underpowered.
My phone before that had a Snapdragon 765G, another pretty midrange SoC. I couldn't name a single app that isn't running perfectly fluently.
I dunno what apps you are using, but as far as I can see, there just isn't any relevant difference in daily usage between current mid-range and flagship SoCs.
Software is what matters to me, and you couldn't pay me to use a phone to use a phone on OneUI, with, if the current news are accurate, no more path to running anything other than the Stock Rom.