To celebrate a particular movie’s nominations for the Golden Globes next Sunday, Jan 7, we are hosting our very own Golden Lemmy award for Best Android Device on !android@lemmy.world.
Rules are simple, tell us about your favorite Android phone from 2023 in the top level comment, and the device with the most up votes wins the esteemed and coveted Golden Lemmy Award, along with 1 Lemmy Silver.
Our regular discussion will resume in 2 weeks.
I went from a Motorola Pure to a Galaxy after Motorola’s acquisition by Lenovo, and I really miss the Pure.
It’s absolutely baffling how many useless programs Samsung loads on these things, as is their weird insistence on having their own custom settings that are just a downgrade from basic Android. I’ve gone looking for a setting or a feature dozens of times just to find that Samsung decided it wasn’t needed.
Why?
Why the fuck would you take away features like a notification history?
The specs are fine in terms of running whatever you feel like even several years after purchase but it’s hard to think it’s worth it when you keep running into basic design incompetence.
Tl;Dr Galaxies had decent hardware and terrible software, so when they start going after hardware features it’s time to bail.
But one ui does have notification history
It’s present in some models and not others. The good news is they did get complained at enough times to add it back in.
I don’t remember ever not having notification history - you’d just have to dig a bit to get there. I think Nova used to even let you make a custom shortcut right to it.
The problem with hardware is that they were one of the last (and possibly the last of the heavy hitters) to ditch the SD cards.