Comment on Huawei tr-fold review

Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Maybe you can dip your toes into using lineage os or graphene os?

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I used AOSP for years to minimize my Google exposure, but it became too cumbersome, and I stopped when I accidentally bricked a phone modifying the boot loader.

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• Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  She can use a different launcher to get rid of the Google search

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  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wonder if adb-disabling Google services would work.

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    • Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It might depend on the specific Android flavor. I tried that on an old phone, and while I could disable the actual Google search (tapping in the search bar did nothing) I could not remove the search bar. I also could not find a way to have it open my preferred search engine.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thanks, that’s what I’ve heard, do you know a launcher that is free and close to original functionality?

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    • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lawnchair play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.lawncha…

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Thanks, that looks like the perfect option. 👍 😀

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• Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  huaweo is down 7% globally from 10% market share to 3.5%, they’re not doing great, I think they’re hanging on because of their Asia sales supplemented by federal support.

  the not removable Google search on the home screen and non removable date on the home screen means that I will never buy another Google phone.

  also, non-expandable storage? you fucking kidding me? what is even the point of a phone if it comes with 128 GB of storage. That’s like eight good videos. It’s insane.

  I have been disappointed by the pixel in literally every way, and I don’t know where to go next except probably Sony because their phones have front-facing speakers, and if I can’t get decent software on any platform at least I can listen to music with decent hardware and root the thing.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    2nd note:
    Yes Huawei is not #1 as they probably would be without the sanctions. But still last I heard they are taking market share again, and that’s even without the Honor brand phones. And they are still strong on innovation and very popular in Asian markets.
    Instead it’s Xiaomi that is trying to take the position Huawei once had, but they are not quite as strong as Huawei in the design department, Huawei is IMO clearly #1 in the world in that regard.

    I would never buy a Google phone, it’s too much control for Google IMO. Also although their cameras are generally good, your pictures may end up basically fake, and not at all look like what you took a picture of. I saw posts about someone trying to take a picture in foggy weather, and the Pixel phone cleared it all up, so the foggy effect disappeared completely, and he couldn’t disable the AI treatment that did it. So he couldn’t take a picture of what he was seeing!!! Other phones use filters too, but not filters that essentially makes the photo fake.

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t know where you’re getting the Huawei news, but their market share has been nose diving since 2024.

      Pixel, though, I can’t believe the automatic filters that are impossible to turn off.

      Even if you take a photo with .raw, there’s still post processing on every single photo so they look like dog shit.

      how’s Huawei number one in the world for design? do they do anything innovative? The Huawei phones I’ve used seem pretty unremarkable, indistinguishable from oppo.

      which I would also throw in a gutter.

      I haven’t been impressed by anything I’ve seen on the market in years, except for the Sony Xperia, because I love front-facing speakers and I didn’t know any major companies still made them.

      I’m pretty sure that’s where I’m going next.

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t know where you’re getting the Huawei news, but their market share has been nose diving since 2024.

        counterpointresearch.com/…/china-smartphone-share…

        Huawei Market share in China increased 50% this year compared to last.

        Pixel, though, I can’t believe the automatic filters that are impossible to turn off.

        The Dr Dre of cameras. cheap hardware with a shitload of filtering to make it sound look good.

        how’s Huawei number one in the world for design?

        No doubt 10 years ago Huawei was clearly THEE leader in design. They had both amazing build quality and design. Heralded for beating Apple at the game, and putting others to shame.
        Beyond that, the friggin 10 year old phone my wife has still takes amazing pictures. Huawei was very strong in innovation that actually worked, which is also why they so quickly became #1 in the world.

        Even today after they’ve been handicapped in sales which limit development budgets they are still strong in the design department.
        carisinyal.com/en/the-slimmest-smartphone/

        These are examples of Huawei still stretching what’s possible in the physical aspect of making phones thinner. Just like they beat Apple in that game more than a decade ago, while maintaining a build quality that was as premium as Apple.
        The triple fold phone the OP is about, is a world first, not something that interest me personally, but still a design win over competitors.
        How they look is of course subjective,

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s like eight good videos. It’s insane.

    Her current phone only has 16 GB storage, and no that’s not RAM. 🤣
    But what format video are you using? Video at about 1.5 GB look great on the phone.

    I looked at Sony when I bought my current phone, but I like big screens and a Sony with comparable features to my Xiaomi 13T Pro cost almost twice what I paid, and then it still only had half the storage.
    But message LED is a major feature IMO.

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    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I really miss the flashing LED from my BlackBerry Z30 - so long ago.

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      when you record video, It’s almost 4 MB a second in default, so you’re using up a gig every 2 and 1/2 minutes.

      sunset+walk on the beach, a gig.

      say 30 minutes of a video, and you’re between 15 and 20 gigs.

      Go to a concert, or a wedding, whatever and you just lost a huge percentage of your phone storage and you aren’t allowed to add more storage?

      insane, very consumer unfriendly

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The longest video I ever recorded was 18 years ago, about 10 mins, just to see what the camera was capable of. Generally my videos are less than a minute now.
        Obviously you wouldn’t use a 10 year old phone for your use case.
        However my Xiaomi 13T Pro 512GB would probably be fine. But I currently only use 10% of the storage.

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  • fhqwgads@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the not removable Google search on the home screen and non removable date on the home screen means that I will never buy another Google phone.

    I’m fairly sure that’s just a launcher limitation, you can swap out the entire launcher to whatever you want. If you don’t want something radically different I think lawnchair is still around.

    lawnchair.app

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      thanks, I’ll check it out.

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