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ik it's subjective but the phone's design looks really bad. can't afford it anyway but..
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I think people going for this hardware + OS are more of a function over form crowd.
90W charging, huge storage option, high quality cameras (I already have a billion lenses on the back of my phone so I just don't give a shit), great screen - yeah I don't care how the thing looks. I care about GrapheneOS support and that it has the hardware to keep it usable for more than a couple of years.
Right now its between this and a flip phone + umpc for me. We'll see where things go in the coming months.
Not me - I'm on Graphene but one of the biggest things I love about the software itself is that it's very well designed, which is rare to see in the FOSS / privacy community. I hate shitty UIs and shitty design in general.
I was referring to the hardware as that's what i was replying to?
Jesus, I don't care what it does to the image quality, I just don't ever want 4 lenses on the back of my phone
I miss the days of a single camera lens. I wouldn't even mind a system where you can swap the lens for different needs, but having a "camera bump" on a phone is so annoying. I prefer not needing a case to make the back of my phone lay flat on a table.
at least this one is now horizontal. so if the individual lens does not protrude too much away from the island, like the iphone 17/18 do, it shouldn't rock when it's on a flat surface.
despite the stupid trend of putting massive islands o. the back of the phone, when well designed it acts as a finger cliff to balance on my hand.
I hand a large hand so mileage will vary as always.
Always with the perfectionism with better alternatives.
Personally, I think it's better than the Samsung Galaxy Ultra series because, on those phones, the camera island goes down the phone, not across it, making magnetic accessories cumbersome to fit on at times.
The Motorola also looks like it doesn't have a camera island, just protruding cameras. I can't be sure though.
Will I finally be able to compile stuff and use Nix on it?
Sure, you can also just do that now.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.termux.nix/
I was trying to use Nix-on-Droid but the Android OOM kept killing my builds, and this is with a phone with 12 GB RAM
5 cameras? can i get a phone with zero cameras?
It's 4, one is the flashlight
theres the front cam
Oh right, i forgot about that one
eh, i've seen worse phone designs