A20 Pro vs Intel Ultra 7 Series 3

  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    4 hours ago

    Your only real reason to upgrade if the phone is still perfectly good is that you’ll stop getting security updates in 5 months (at least that’s how it’s been scheduled by Samsung). A shame because any 2022 flagship is bound to still have solid performance for pretty much any use case I could think of (except maybe high-end games? Who runs those on a phone anyway?)

    You’d possibly get an extra year or 2 likely next time with an iPhone (historically longest major version support + sometimes abnormally long security update support, the 2015 iPhone 6s still got security updates until May this year), but there’s no guarantee and if you prefer Android, Samsung’s up to 7 years of promised security updates now for the latest flagships, as is Pixel and if you’re on a popular model unlockable phone, you can go way beyond that with custom ROMs. Samsung doesn’t allow unlocking all of their phones, but if yours is unlockable, you may yet use it for several more years if you so desire. Phones are pretty damn expensive, even moreso now, custom ROMs are great to further increase device lifespan if you can use them.

    • West_of_West@piefed.social
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      39 minutes ago

      I’ll take a look into the custom ROM. Thanks for the info!

      One of the big reasons for getting a new phone when I bought was the years of security updates.