ignoring everything else, I would just say get the most expensive S series phone that is the right “size” for your hands, and your budget. Any S series phone will do, just don’t touch the budget phones or the FE phones. S24, S23, S22. All are fine phones. No need to bet. You’ll get the same Samsung experience as the S8, just better and faster.
Repeat, do not touch the budget phones, do not touch the FE phones, and you will be fine.
Predicted by whom? The same experts that predicted that Trump would retain his presidency?
Mid-range IS a lower range. It’s not the lowest end, but any device in the range is still a lower-end device.
After all, there IS only 1 flagship in a fleet of ships. The S series used to be called a flagship series, but nowadays, everyone knows that the Ultra and the other S series phones have a feature disparity. Can one call the S series flagship phones when they don’t have all the bells and whistles, surely not.
S7> 865 5G+ chipset 8 GB RAM, S7 FE> 778G chipset 4GB RAM
S7 FE is definitely a lower end device.
Sure there’s also the A series that’s lower, but it doesn’t change the fact that the FE series of devices are considered lower end devices provided as copium for those who cannot afford the high end ones.
For devices below 6gb of ram, RAM Plus should help.
At 4GB your device would go into swapping, and that is even more computationally expensive than RAM Plus.
That’s not true.
Any data files are not “supported” by the phone, but rather by the music player. Music is a data file.
You’ll have to install a Samsung Music Player (which they used to bundle but now it’s a separate installation) - people complain about “bloat” and they removed all the nice stuff. IIRC there’s no built in music player anymore.
Personally, I think it’s one of the better music players on the market. Plays just about everything. Gives better music with Samsung devices too, when I tested it with earbuds in a comparison with 10 other music player apps using the 3.5mm jack with high end IEMs. Not a single music player came close in quality. Probably some hardware optimisation cheat they used.
li ion batteries are never really at “0” - that’s just a figure showed to the consumer.
In reality, in very lay man’s terms, the batteries are hibernating when it’s 0. They will continue to “lose” energy as per usual (like how when you’re starving, it doesn’t mean you are on the verge of death). When the minimum energy level goes below a certain amount necessary for life support, the battery will suffer physical damange, you can no longer wake it up unless you bring it to a hospital and get a professional to resuscitate the battery by doing something dangerous.
So yeah, you can leave it a 0%, just that your phone may never wake up again if you leave it alone too long.
You leave it at 50%, it will depend on how long it takes for the phone to lose 50% energy in your environment, then you’ll be in the same situation as the 0% one.
That’s why new phones are charged to about 80% or 90% when sealed in a box - you’ll never know how long the phone is going to sit on the shelf. That should be good for a few years.
My Samsung phones can get a broken phone screen fixed within 4 hours in my country, and Samsung even provides a replacement phone in the mean time. Pixel takes a couple of weeks with no replacement phones provided.
Nvm that with Pixels phones you can’t turn off any of tracking because it’s built into all parts of the phone. Or the battery is just piss poor. Or the screen is just lousy. Or that you will get blinded by the fingerprint sensor if you try to unlock the phone in the night because it’ll light up being optical.