Love how people are getting excited about the new Samsung devices and I'm here excited for the Nokia 8.1 and considering selling my pixel 2 XL and downgrading to it...

(Fuck Samsung)

Their "skin" is fucking ugly

I switched to Apple a year ago, and have really liked it. Price is the hard part, but Samsung and others are catching up on the pricing area.

@iAmNaN Pixel 3 XL was $599 for Verizon customers not too long ago.

Can't beat that.

@jespersh 100% is, highly recommend Nokia, I have a 6.1 as my backup phone and was able to snag it for $300 AUD and it is an absolute tank, performance is great, Camera is great for the price and the build is more solid and we'll put together than pretty much anything else on the market...

@Stuxnet main reason I hate Samsung, they are hell bent on making there device as far from stock android as possible and cut Google off at every corner (making there own apps that Google already provide out of the box) and just brute forcing 'features'... They should just bunker down and make Tizen there phone OS

@lxmcf Notch sucks.

@-red 100% notch's are a fix for a problem that doesn't exist, but I'd be willing to deal with a notch with a Nokia just because of his good the phone actually is

@lxmcf Yes. I would actually like some bezel on my phone.

@-red thankyou!!!

I would honestly prefer the bezel of my old nexus 6P compared to my pixel 2 XL's "modern" slim bezels, bezel = protection

@IshYume in Australia? Hahahahahahah

@IshYume in Australia to import electronics you need to sacrifice a goat, pay 3 times the amount and a percentage import tax as well as payment tax so it is legitimately almost cheaper to buy a flagship than import stuff like the poco phone

@irene pixel 2 xl vs Nokia 8.1 is a downgrade (well... Kinda)

@irene primarily camera, screen and speakers are the proper downgrades, internals are hard to discern in person tbh

@irene screen is less of an issue.

The pixel 2's camera is pretty damn great, probably the best behind the pixel 3.

And speakers is more for the fact that the Nokia has a single mono speaker on the bottom where the pixel has 2 front facing stereo speakers

You know something, people have preferences?

@irene but as @zelda said, it's all preference

Fuck fast chips, don't need them, PC master race all the way. Who uses their phone for gaming? Plebs living in trailers with unstable internet and no space for a gaming desk, that's who.

Fuck 7 selfie cams and 3 dick cams, I'm not an instagram whore looking for constant attention from fake friends.

And foldable phones? I don't want an uglier device with a weaker screen, you retards.

I just want a $200-$300 phone with very solid build quality, rapid USB-C charging, and a clean stock Android that's very easy to root & flash if I desire.

So I'll probably be buying a Moto G7 soon.

There is actually one feature which could entice me to switch to a Galaxy S10: Dex.

If they sponsored for example Jetbrains to make proper ARM ports, and put some work into ergonomical dev environments out of the box, I would consider replacing my Macbook Pro with a Galaxy S10. Technically, it's already 95% possible, but in practice it's still a bit hacky to get all the dev tooling working well on ARM.

Ideally, I'd like to see a Samsung-sponsored ARM distro (maybe like an Ubuntu fork), tailored towards app & web development.

@bittersweet Dex sounds like a good idea but I think is kind of a flawed concept as it isn't a seamless experience, you have to change actual operating systems for it to become useful because android as a desktop OS just isn't a good idea no matter how you string it

@lxmcf Certainly.

@lxmcf On the other hand, Samsung could "easily" make a Dex Linux distro including packages for calls, photos, messaging, etc. With a bit of effort, it could even share almost all of the settings and file locations with Android.

I reckon business and especially dev is a tiny market compared to the selfiesnapping herd though.