The 1st Ever Golden Lemmy Award for Best Android Device
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this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
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Samsung Galaxy S5
Pros:
*Flashing will vlow the eFuse and disable Knox. It will also make it a bit more difficult to use some apps.
Negatives:
(I'm half kidding. My S23 Ultra is hot garbage for features. Fuckers even stripped the SD card support out so my storage just got cut significantly unless I pay for a subscription instead of a single payment on an SD card that I can access in a Faraday Cage if I wanted to. Idk why they care so much about camera quality - especially when they've just made it more difficult and expensive to store images in bulk. If you want pro pictures, get an SLR and take pro pictures. You don't expect that from a laptop, why do we expect it from a pocket computer?)
I took my old S5 out of a drawer earlier today because I needed the IR. Never expected to see it mentioned in a recent comment.
The best camera is the one you have on you. It's one of the basics of photography. I don't carry an slr with me all the time for good reason, but I do have my phone, and it being able to take good pictures is important to me.
I also often carry an APS-C mirrorless with me when carrying stuff is less of an issue, and it certainly takes way better photos, most of the time.
There was a way to root without blowing the fuse, iirc. And they even made a Qi charging back door. Loved that phone.
I went from a Motorola Pure to a Galaxy after Motorola's acquisition by Lenovo, and I really miss the Pure.
It's absolutely baffling how many useless programs Samsung loads on these things, as is their weird insistence on having their own custom settings that are just a downgrade from basic Android. I've gone looking for a setting or a feature dozens of times just to find that Samsung decided it wasn't needed.
Why?
Why the fuck would you take away features like a notification history?
The specs are fine in terms of running whatever you feel like even several years after purchase but it's hard to think it's worth it when you keep running into basic design incompetence.
Tl;Dr Galaxies had decent hardware and terrible software, so when they start going after hardware features it's time to bail.
I don't remember ever not having notification history - you'd just have to dig a bit to get there. I think Nova used to even let you make a custom shortcut right to it.
The problem with hardware is that they were one of the last (and possibly the last of the heavy hitters) to ditch the SD cards.
But one ui does have notification history
It's present in some models and not others. The good news is they did get complained at enough times to add it back in.