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How do you get the new one in the US?

Unfortunately it isn't a particularly great spec. It's fine if you don't care about those things but for people that want high-end smartphones the phone isn't going to cut it.

How is the fairphone doing these days? I was scared off by the battery life last time i checked it out

My s24 ultra is still almost perfect except for the inexplicably mediocre cameras.

What would you get for a new phone nowadays?

The only answer is regulation. We need laws that say, if you own a device, you can do anything you want to it, including wipe it, hack it, resell it, etc.

If they want to control your device, or lease it to you provided you pay a monthly fee, etc, they need to say "Lease", "Rent" or similar, not buy.

And they shouldn't be able to void your warranty for it - voids should be limited to the parts of the device you mess with. Like, if you flash your phone, they should be able to say, we can't give you support, including how to re-install the original OS...but if your battery fails and it shocks you, they should have to replace the battery under a warranty.

We also need laws that say, if you pay for a device, that device itself, can't have ads. So like, when talking about Android TV boxes, they can put recommendations on the homepage, but not ads, and those recommendations can't be paid. Now, if you open youtube, they can make you watch ads.

As long as they don't encounter any resistance, they have no reason to renounce their enshittification process.

Will the sales slow because of this? Unlikely. I would assume the power users are in the noise.

Will they make more money? Probably, either through their own data collection and brokerage, or from third party editors paying to have their app bundled in the OS.

So, no catch! (for them…)

I dont run custom ROMs anymore either but I have needed Odin a few times over the last few years to flash different OEM firmware to devices. Examples are a couple of work phones the company let me keep after upgrading which had Sprint firmware. I was able to flash Tmobile firmware to them while simultaneously removing all the locked-down work stuff that was preventing me from doing anything with the devices like activating developer mode.

As far as my personal device, an S21 Ultra, I'll probably need to upgrade it in the next couple of years and I think its finally time to ditch Samsung. I had similar feelings before getting the S21 but compromised since the market was shit for higher-end devices (I typically get a higher end device and then keep it for years and years) and i have no interest in Apple. It sucks because the market is still weak as hell in the US. Every device I've come across that looks decent is a EU device that doesn't support all of Tmobile's bands.

If that happens my phone becomes useless for me, I have to either sell it or throw it away.

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i remember many years ago i flashed, i think it was Lineage OS maybe android 8 or 7? on galaxy s2. There were something like 10 android versions ahead of last official relase.

I checked xda, and theres lineage os 19.1 (android 12) available for galaxy s2.

Yeah, they have been on my shit list for a good while. The only thing I'd still buy from them would be memory, either ram or flash, but now the AI induced prices have put even those purchases on hold.

God their TVs have become so terrible over the last decade. Not only the firmware but the quality of them. I got one to use as an office monitor and it randomly glitches out showing static on the screen until you unplug it. My BIL also buys Samsung TVs and has seemingly gone through half a dozen of them in the last few years because they keep breaking. Same with all the Samsung appliances that he buys too.

For my last TV, I got an LG C3 OLED from Costco and the picture is incredible along with the price and we haven't had any software issues or annoyances with it either. I have blocked the LG domains on my router though so that it won't nag me about updating the firmware.