Fuck yeah!!! After over a month of being stuck without a phone, the funds have finally been released to buy a new one. It'll be the OnePlus 6T. Kernel source available on launch, wicked specs that rival PC's - 8GB of LPDDR4 RAM, a quarter TB of storage... Fuck yeah!!!! Never settle indeed!!! :D

I find it amazing that a phone has more RAM than my (still fairly kickass) secondary laptop.

@RememberMe Same here, haha. I doubt that I'd ever really need it though. One of my laptops has a (relatively) measly 1.25GB of DDR RAM, yet works a treat with Arch Mate. I guess that 8GB RAM could come in handy for running chroots or tmpfs storage (which is mainly what I use the excessive 6-7GB on my other laptop for) though. And, I mean, aside from planned obsolescence (hopefully not present in this €630 beast!) it's pretty good for futureproofing too.

If only they hadn't dropped the 3,5mm jack... I would have bought it already by now.
(Also, why tf is the usb port only rated for usb 2.0, in spite of being a type C connector? Wtf is up with that?)

@endor Meh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I really only used the headphone jack as a low voltage function generator anyway. For audio I'm using Bluetooth since a few years ago, and haven't looked back ever since. I won't really miss the 3.5mm jack.

As for the USB-C connector being USB 2.0.. that's one of the things that's always irritated me about USB-C. It's supposed to make things easier and uniform, but the standard allows any generation of USB to use this connector. In "classical" USB you have this visual distinction between USB versions. White for 1.1, black for 2.0, blue for 3.0, red for 3.1. And in micro USB the differences are even more pronounced, with the connector actually being different. That's not the case with USB-C, which I'm pretty sure will become pretty confusing.

Just imagine a non-techie buying a new USB cable for their phone.. "oh, this connector, it's saying 2.0 on the package, will that be compatible with my phone..?" Or better yet, when it's unboxed and stuffed away with a bunch of other cables, i.e. with no clear distinction between the generations of each cable. "What was the right cable for this thing again?"

God bless fund transfers