We just had an article on how Asus is pulling out of the smartphone market too:
https://lemmy.today/post/45923370
Not as significant as OnePlus, I guess, but two articles about two different manufacturers exiting in two days is a lot.
Oof. I mean, OnePlus had already fallen off quite a bit since being required by Oppo. I'm typing this from an 8t but I made up my mind months ago that this would be my last OnePlus device due to their merging of oxygen os and color os and their massively degraded modding community.
Man, the android phone industry/community used to be so vibrant and fun. I'll keep this one until it dies but I don't know what I'll do next. All the time it seems like Pixel and Samsung are my only choices. Are Motorola ok? I ditched them years ago ironically for essentially the same reasons I'm ditching OnePlus now but again it's been years.
Give fairphone a look. Maybe youll like them and what they do
Thanks, I'll remember them when my phone finally kicks the can
Are Motorola ok?
Depends on what you value in a phone. Like, I like a vanilla OS, a lot of memory, large battery, and a SIM slot. I don't care much about the camera quality and don't care at all about size and weight (in fact, if someone made a tablet-sized phone, I'd probably switch to that). That's almost certainly not the mix that some other people want.
There's some phone comparison website I was using a while back that has a big database of phones and lets you compare and search based on specification.
goes looking
This one:
I went from oneplus 6 to nothing phone 1, which is alright. Sadly some friends bought the nothing phone 2 after I recommended the brand and they both don't like it. After this I'll probably move to fairphone if I can afford it at that time
Flagship killer that is somehow the same price as a flagship
I used to want to try a OnePlus. Their phones looked nice. So sad.
I have a lower-mid-end OnePlus. It is decidedly meh. It's fine. It cost more than I wanted, has poor finger print reader placement, lacks induction charging, and never got the promised unlocked boot loaders, but it has the 3.5 mm headphone jack and microSD slot that I demanded from a phone.
It sure is a phone.
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