I admittedly have no personal experience with Pixel; I have observed that people who get Pixels either love them or they’re total shit & they hate them. No inbetweens, love or hate. My BIL got a shit one, but I see lots of happy Pixel owners.

I currently have an Oukitel Titan. It’s a little quirky sometimes but it’s also a beast of a phone, which makes up for any mishaps.

To any & all Android users: you should install Grayjay. But don’t do it from the Play Store because that’s the stupid nerfed version.

The latest cool things they have done: they’ve stopped being whiny little bitches & made their iPhones USB-C, with pressure from the EU. They’ve finally adopted Google’s RCS messaging protocol, which should allow Apples & Androids to play nicely together in texting.

Both of these things were massively overdue; they were being arrogant & childish for years…

Last but certainly not least: iPhones 15 & up (I think) have FREE “satellite messaging”. If you’re out in bufu & you’ve got no signal, simply put your iPhone out with a clear view of the sky…and your text messages will be relayed, received via satellite. This is a safety feature, not everyone knows it’s a thing, and personally I think it’s very, very cool.

T-Mobile should also team up with Starlink so all T-Mo customers should get free satellite text messaging. Should. But modern iPhones have free emergency text messaging here & now; that’s worth more than any “Trust me, bro, it’s totally coming”.

I’m going from Android to Apple soon, because I’m finally totally over all the present day Android BS. Good luck, have fun.

Word to the wise: don’t buy anything less than a flagship. Older flagship if you’re wanting to save some money. Samsung is best. I’ve played around with all kinds of mid-tier Androids & it’s a frustrating experience. The phones just don’t work well for long. Motorola sucks ass, don’t even bother.

Nah but it’s total shit, IIRC it’s mid-tier specs not even flagship. Idk why you’d want to put your name on a mid-tier phone… 🙄

LOL… “Aflicks”. He actually typed that out, and was like YEP aflicks is totally a word, send it! Idiot.

I strongly encourage everyone to protect the things they love, download all of Wikipedia, screenshot & download all the things. It’s a little paranoid, sure, but between all of us downloading & saving all our little pieces of the web & all its information, we effectively safeguard most of it from digital terrorism, tyranny, erasure. It costs very little, relatively speaking. Do your part & I’ll do mine.

Fuck, the freedom. Root & custom ROM, running your damn device that you paid money for the way you want to. Imagine that. I stopped after rooting your phone killed Snapchat (because 3 idiots use Snap Pay or whatever), killed your tap pay wallet, killed Pokémon Go, etc etc etc. Then they tried telling people oh bro, just hide your root bro Majisk hide root. Like I need one more thing to do. 🙄 If I need to hide it, and most of the benefits of rooting have gone away/are incorporated into smartphones & no longer needed…I’m just going to stop rooting.

Then the microSD card expansion slot. Some try to say it’s for waterproofing purposes, but they can use the same pop-out slot as the SIM card & it’s nbd. Others say it’s because the storage can sometimes be “unstable” & glitch, but over the years I’ve only had problems twice: just once with a Samsung, and then constantly with a shitty Motorola smartphone but that’s on me because I bought a shitty Motorola smartphone. I think they killed it just because they could, because everybody else was killing it off & they knew they were going to get your money regardless. And then either pay a premium for extra on-board storage, or pay $10/mo for the rest of your life for “cloud” storage. Or both! Money, money, money, it’s all about the money.

These guys got rid of everything that made an Android an Android, and if I’ve got problems with mid-tier phones, to spend $1K+ on a flagship Android. For crying out loud, I’m not spending $1K on an Android that doesn’t even have microSD expansion, at that point you might as well buy an iPhone.

It’s about the battery, nerd. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄