That's a fair point. Mobile gaming is a fairly broad spectrum and perhaps I should have differentiated casual, lower demanding games from high fidelity ones.

Like, I know cod mobile was decently popular (and maybe still is), I would consider this one higher fidelity. I would be quick to question whether these games are actually good, though. The flappy birds of the segment on the other hand probably dont need much graphics throughput.

Both types of games are brimming with predatory monetisation. The only value I personally see when it comes to gaming on a phone is via emulators, source ports, indie gems like shattered pixel dungeon etc.

Though, on the topic of emulation (and to contradict my earlier comment about the need for higher perf) you can leverage box86/64 and Winulator to play fairly recent desktop windows games on your phone.

A key caveat is that the experience is contingent on the gfx umd quality for the SOC vendor (Qualcomm seem okay here but others may suffer - the state of Vulkan on Android still isn't great right now), but it seems we're gradually reaching the possibility of having phones as our primary computing devices.

No worries, I'm just ranting at this point.

The headphone jack is a sore spot for me, I have a few speaker systems around the house and garage with 3.5mm. I use an adapter but wired audio over USB C on android has terrible UX; it's treated as a generic USB device, so it carries the same security implications (can only route audio with the device unlocked, can cut out if you lock the phone shortly after). Audio quality over type C + adapter has been worse in my experience but this will vary by device.

The displays are kind of a multi faceted thing for me. I can always see the impact of the pentile sub-pixel layout on text regardless of pixel density. I cannot unsee that sort of screen door effect.

Compared to LCD IPS, you might notice a smearing effect with UI animations on oled, I believe the same can be observed with desktop displays (in addition to VRR backlight flicker on darker content)

There's also the faster rate of degradation it carries as a technology, which has prompted mitigations at the OS level.

The infinite contrast / per pixel backlighting is nice for sure, though it's led to AOD replacing dedicated notification RGB LEDs (which feels sort of inelegant; that's additional content to render on display and it's generally less functional than addressable RGB at a glance), has enabled under-display fingerprint readers (which pale in performance to conventional sensors). Rounded corners aren't intrinsic to oled but camera hole punch designs seem to be. Those camera holes will never not look like a design concession to me. 18 months with this and I still think it's dumb.

The phone feels pretty solid but the back is glass, the sides are slippery without a case, and the glass on both sides protrudes past the bezel, making it a bit more damage prone.

None of these things are intrinsic to the pixel, it's sad to see so little variation out there though.