you will have less features, you will have a locked bootloader, and you will like it.
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Something something GrapheneOS, LineageOS, SailfishOS, Jolla Phone, Pinephone Pro.
Say what you want about Samsung, but I just returned a pixel 9p because of highly intermitent network signal (and over heating). My last pixel, a 6, got bricked during an update, the pixel 5 got returned because it couldn't see Sims at all.
Maybe I'm unlucky, but man, so difficult to find a phone with high quality camera and open bootloader.
S23 here, running cool with good battery, and incredible signal. Can't install shit on it but it's a phone, I text people, I call people.
My girlfriend has an A52 and her dad had an A23 (or whatever 3rd gen low-tier but not the cheapest).
Both of them regularly, from day 1 have lost cellular signal or 4G/5G signal, and my girlfriend even had to get a new sum card because the A52 simply refused to use it and she was "stuck" in the middle of nowhere with no GPS and no map and no cellular to call someone because of her Samsung phone.
They both barely worked as a phone for a long time. My xperia 5ii had a problem of losing 4G every once in a while until I turned airplane mode on and off again.
My point is that most phones, regardless of manufacturer, have shit signal or intermittent cellular problems, that vary from device to device. n=1 anecdotes are a pretty bad metric of saying whether a phone is good or not. Manufacturers should be required to publish standardized volume testing.
Not to mention that all new Samsung's come with forced Israeli spyware that you can't uninstall.
I agree with you 100%. Ever since Google made the switch to their crapware Tensor modem, the Pixels have been going downhill starting with the Pixel 5, I guess with the exception of the Pixel 8 series, which I'm rocking right now.
Heck, I'd argue that Pixels in general are better cameras than they are phones. My beloved Pixel 4 XL succumbed to that swollen battery issue, and my Pixel 6 Pro couldn't keep a consistent cell connection if my life depended on it (and I think in one case it very well could have).
The day GrapheneOS reveals the Motorola phone from its partnership is the day I will jump ship from Google Pixel, camera quality be damned. Y'know, provided Motorola uses a Qualcomm chip and not Tensor or gasp Exynos!
This being a footnote instead of in the headline seems like an odd omission:
One thing to note here is that fonts purchased through the Galaxy Store should still work fine. Samsung’s validation system targets unofficial third-party font packages specifically, not paid fonts that users bought legitimately.
It's literally just patching a security vulnerability.
It also happens to be patching a financial vulnerability.
OneUI is privacy nightmare. You should see the telemetry data it is sending to the Samsung servers.