Elon Musk...Hallelujah!!
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Reading the replies on the tweet really opened ny eyes to what a cult there is surrounding Apple among the douchebag elitists. I avoid Apple products because I like free choice. I hate Google, but there are workarounds. I give no fucks about my phone being a statement about me. My phone is 7 yrs old now. Works great. My AMD powered computers run circles around anything Apple makes. Makes no sense to me.
The only thing that bugs me about my 7-year-old phone, a Samsung, is that it runs slower than it used to, by design. That really ticks me off, because other than that it's fine for my needs. Samsung says the built-in slow-down is to prevent overheating on older phones. I use it to text, read emails, and GAW. No worries for that!
Custom roms great. Short of that, just install and run ccleaner - that will get you running nice again.
Root that phone and do a custom Rom. It will be bought and day
This 100%
Oneplus 7 pro here and the other day I saw the new model, 10 I think, and it wasn't any faster whatsoever than my phone.
I keep my Windows 7 laptops limping along.
I tried and I couldn't get used to it. Too much to learn while I had a business to run.
Yes! Anything past that I can't stand!
Just fyi. I've got a super old phone too. No glass protector and not a scratch on it anywhere, years later. I went and looked at a new phone and the dude told me straight up that there is zero chance of the screen not breaking without an extra layer of protection on it. For an extra fee of course.
Ehh. Gorilla glass is strong against impacts, dude was just trying to sell some extra products.
If you aren't dropping your phone directly on concrete or metal you're probably okay, but having even a well made slim case that gives a small lip around your screen will prevent direct impacts and spread the kinetic energy.
In my experience it was actually more common to break the back of a phone when it was during the glass fad, but now that we are back to metal backed phones that's a non issue.
Also, impact resistance is different than scratch resistance and both is not feasible without making the screen cost more than the phone.
Mine is unscratched also. No screen protector. Usually in my back pocket. Got it in 2015. I do have a rubber surround to protect the back and edges
Me too! $200 Samsung J7, 5 years old. Look up magnetic USB charger on Amazon. Those are the bomb and eliminate wear on your charge port... the piece 2nd most likely to fail.
I do all my charging wireless. I'm constantly on it so wireless charging mount in the truck and a charge pad at home.
Isn’t that the same chip as the prior model, but with the extra cores actually turned on? My understanding was that was the only difference, software disabled 2 cores and they magically enable them on the new one. Yet they don’t use the same software to turn on the cores on the old model. That routine sounds like con to me.
If i remember correctly, it was a binning issue. Some stupid high number (something like 50%+) of the new chips had issues in two of their cores, so they disabled them in the first run. When they refreshed to the next phone/laptop the following year, they had cleared up the manufacturing issues and turned on the cores, and then boasted about performance gains.
Somebody made a way to turn those cores back on, from what I read, but there was a chance you'd immediately glitch on boot and have to reinstall.
Count me out of wanting to be in the chip making business. The amount of worthless garbage you have to sort through before finding one that actually works as intended is crazy.
What, you dont like your 5 Billion manufacturing plant to be brought to it's knees by a gram of dust?
My phone is 5 and was the cheap free with signing piece of junk. It's taken quite a few hits as well. Time for a new phone. I have a "de-googled" Braxman on the way for xmas... about to discover life without google (or apple)
Yeah it’s not the hardware…
Never has been
Why do I care what device/OS is tweeting? Is it just marketing?