HidingCat

1. No internal battery means it's not a product with a built-in obsolence period (which is fairly short, 3-5 years)
2. Most of the better audio gear are all wired
3. I mean, it's simple economics: Not paying for all the extra stuff to make it wireless means you get better value for audio quality
4. Many people here are enthusiasts in tech and hardware, we likely have more than a few devices. Switching between devices with BT is a fucking PITA.

Still doesn't explain the crashes. Mine has been pretty rock solid.

Day-to-day stuff like browsing web pages and using social media shouldn't have much of a difference, especially if you moved from say, a Snapdragon 845 to a SD 778G. I went from a Snapdragon 820 to a 730g and the latter was definitely faster, so dropping down a class level or two may not make a difference if the generation gap is big enough.

I meant with commercial stuff like Google's. The easy stuff is all walled gardens, don't want that. So hoping stuff like Home Assistant gets easier to use.

Yea, same. The Fold 5 in my region has started dropping in price and the base 256 GB is almost at US1k. That's basically a tablet and a phone together. I expect more price drops by the end of the year.

My work phone is an A53, don't have anything remotely like your issues. In fact I've used low end phones on Snapdragon 400-series SoCs before, and while they're slower, they don't lag or crash. I've always wondered why people have issues with their phones...

I assume it'll get a little easier in the future?

There are some neat things I'd like to do, but I don't want to be in a walled garden.

Yea, it's not hard to search for it.

Well, I was curious too, don't have an answer for you. I just feel a little uncomfortable with a phrase that I know (and have used when speaking to Cantonese people) being used in a negative fashion for a completely different thing. But maybe it's just a cultural clash, so I wanted to clarify.

Yea, the double digit A series were a revamp of the original A line in response to the Chinese makers. As someone with easy access to Chinese phones, I switched from a Mi 9T to an A52s. I have to say the Samsung comes with a lot of pluses, like timely security updates. The only real downside so far has been the haptics: The vibration motor on the A52s is not good.

Dang, thought as big as Sony is, they'd be everywhere still. The 1 is stupid expensive, but the 10 V isn't a bad midrange phone on paper.

Given that I understand yum Cha in a different context (drinking tea), isn't using this phrase to describe shitty Chinese parts a little... racist? Or at least, some form of cultural appropriation (I can't think of a better phrase to us right now).