How much RAM does your 6-year-old daily driver have?
If you’re game, would you turn your phone landscape and swipe through up to forty events in succession and see after how many events the app begins to bog and then freeze, if at all?
Mine has 3 GB and originally froze after 10-12. Now, after successive app versions released, between 15-20.
Running Bluestacks 5 Android 11 emulator, if I allot (within its settings) 4 GB to an emulated Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, it freezes after ten events, if I allot 8 GB, I swiped forty without it bogging or freezing.
So a progression similar to this? I haven’t tried any of the folding phones, but Samsung’s flavor of Android is not my jam. I like the idea of a reasonable size, though, which is why I’ll probably try to squeeze as much use out of my Pixel 4a[1] as I can. Errthang tryin’ to be a phablet these days!
Clearly lots of people do, and that’s great if it works for you. I just prefer a stock or near-stock Android experience and want consistency across my devices for my own ease of use. Does Samsung still insist on putting the OS’s navigational “back” button on the wrong side of the strip at the bottom? That’s one of the things that keeps me away.
I don’t have any YoLink. It seems like it could be the name of a sausage brand that’s trying to be hip.
That’s close. I had a Samsung
Galaxy s5 in there between the iPhone and the Axon.
I also prefer on the smaller side, and stock android. It’s why I went with an Axon over another galaxy and then went to pixel. I honestly wasn’t a huge fan of Samsungs OS, but that was years ago and haven’t tried one since.
If pixel would make a flip rather than a fold I’d have an easy choice.
The only thing I dislike is that ugly camera bar on the back. It’s one of the reasons I’ve kept my pixel 3 all this time. Is it going to get bigger? Ugh.
My mom had one of those for long time and liked it. I really liked the Galaxy S4 mini’s size, even after encasing it in an OtterBox Defender. I never had one this small, though:
A Pixel 6 I’ve used has a similar construction that I don’t like, but it’s less of an issue when in a protective case. Even in a decent case, though, I’ve still had a glass phone back crack. Who the decided that a slippery back on a phone is a good idea?
I do this, too, and the Pixel 4a has a polymer back with a matte (not slick) texture to it even when not in a case, so that’s a in the “pro” column for me.
I think so, because I believe that’s what my sister uses on whatever Galaxy she has. I lose a little piece of my precious whenever she hands me her phone to view a photo or video, because invariably I’ll accidentally touch the wrong place on the screen and make things disappear.
This is excellent! I believe the button order on Samsung devices I’ve used before was immutable, but based on that second image alone—and knowing that I could put the “back” button on the correct[1] side—I’d actually consider using a Samsung device again in the future.
Interesting that the reversed button sequence is what Amazon Fire tablets are using. The button ordering difference isn’t a big deal for me. I use both.
peepeep refers to the gesture of swiping your finger up the display, like you’re flipping the top page of a stack of bond paper. That brings up the next event. This somehow causes the app’s memory footprint to increase until you run out of memory.
Not that your opinion might change, but Samsung changed to the One UI over what it had back then. Also with Good Lock, the customizations are nearly endless. If you like nearly endless. Two new feature in OUI 7 is you can change the icon size with your fiingers to very large or very small. I even rotated a couple icon +10° and -10° just because I could.
I definitely don’t want to force Samsung, but they improved since the s5.
decided that a slippery back on a phone is a good idea? 
in the “pro” column for me.
whenever she hands me her phone to view a photo or video, because invariably I’ll accidentally touch the wrong place on the screen and make things disappear.
