Samsung S23 - compact, little beast with good battery life and camera. Rocking it since presale and it’s the best device I have ever had.

I was wrong. Thanks for showing it to me. Now I can uninstalled cx and use finally only one file explorer which has dark mode.

Best one for sure but doesn’t support smb.

Doesn’t have smb, which is my only complaint and reason why I need CX…

I wanted too but customs, tax, shipping, burocratic paperwork. It’s not worth it and you will pay in some cases double the price… Plus waiting and in case of issues the waiting period and risk of lost parcels… Nightmare…

Just don’t allow to Nova app to connect to internet. It doesn’t need network connection for its functionality. All apps on my phone which doesn’t need network connection are blocked through AFWall+.

I have never abandoned the black flag… Let’s sail the high seas all together. (y)

My first android was HTC Evo 3D. Until then I had touch nokia symbian phone so it was quite a jump forward. Evo got off 60% of price within 6 month so I had to update. It was a hell of a deal. Lasted me for 4 years. Then I went for Somy Xperia Z1 compact.

Like in my previous phone OP7T, I will swap for a new one after 2-3 years, if necessary…

Cellphone is something too much personal so I prefer a new device, cause I’ll be having it for its whole lifespan. I went for S23 8/256 on 6 of February and no regrets cause I’ll be having it for whole 5y. But I got it for 600$, I wouldn’t pay the full price.

I had only one phone from second hand and it was xperia compact z1. It wasn’t bad deal, but it was already 2y old, but for the price it was ridiculous deal. It lasted 2 years and I had to upgrade to new device, newly bought this time.

I assume if I had to I’d not mind buying second hand again but only max 1y old (since premiere) device, from reputable reseller and it would have to be flagship only.

And don’t forget the dimming of display under full load. 🤣

ripped.guide - find your horse…

Exactly. Somehow it is somewhere in between annoyance and encouragement, the right spot. (y)

Nice, it does exactly what I needed. And I can even call my hourly workouts as treatment. 😅 Thx a lot. (y)

I’ve been rooting my phones since 2011 and never had issues with banking apps. Also I don’t use Android pay cause I always strip my phone as much as possible of Google’s surveillance. I honestly cannot use phone without root cause it would fly out of window before evening.

If you want to take it a leap further and become autonomous of Google and others, you will use Graphene OS. But for you it would be cruel torture cause you seem to be deeply into Google’s ecosystem. I’m not deeply in it and it will be hard for me. But I’m prepared with my next update.

It’s up to the fact if you value your privacy and data over convenience. And that’s what they count on…

I agree. But I meant the “clean” mainstream vision of Android from Google.

It’s matter of preference. If you like clean android go google if you like to customize go Samsung. If you like best power go Samsung if you don’t want top end hardware go google. If you want complete privacy and security go google and install graphene os. I love customizability with decent privacy while having small device so I’m rooted on S23.

The lion is not concerned by the opinion of a sheep.

I was using it for almost a year. Still it gave me bullshit I didn’t like… Completely useless app for me.

Use vanced Spotify and don’t pay them at all. I don’t use it cause I prefer to have my flac files stored locally and discovering new songs is stupid on Spotify (mostly mainstream bullshit) but for someone used to using Spotify it’s a good choice.