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Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism (puri.sm)
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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The pen is the only reason I have stuck with Samsung. If they made a Pixel with a smart pen that I could put GrapheneOS on I'd buy it in a second.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah. Id pick up a redmi 10+ pro if it had a pen and sacrifice away the SD card slot. Id at least have a huge battery and awesome cooling.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

If you would get that why wouldn’t you just get a Galaxy S2X Ultra?

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I meant redmagic 10 pro plus. My bad.

As for the samsungs:

Because it's priced higher than it should be, it has a slightly lower performance chip, a much lower capacity battery, and older battery tech that will degrade faster and charges slower. The best redmagic out specs the samsungs in every way but picture quality and does it for $500 less.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, but the Redmagic doesn’t have things the Samsung does - one of which seems to be a dealbreaker for you, the built in stylus.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I'm not paying an extra $500 for a stylus. Either way I think I'll have at least another year out of this thing.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 points 2 hours ago

It's not just the stylus. Better screen (I think, though could be wrong, haven't read/watched much about the redmagic but had a quick look at spec comparisons), better software (including Dex), etc.