Yeah, the price/hardware balance is good at Samsung (unless they use Exynos, man those can suck…). Good software update policy and the quality of it too. If Samsung gave an option to deliver a solid Pixel-like experience (just the regular Google bloat), i would’ve never left. Ever since they started “intergrating” their bloat into the actual settings/launcher, while still needing to update those apps through the Samsung Store, that did it for me. Now i’m going to use that A52s to try out custom roms and things like Lineage. Keeping my new one, Fairphone 5, as the “stable/non-bs” phone.
I’m getting a Samsung for dev work because it’s cheap, but I wouldn’t have gotten it if I wasn’t sure I could root it to remove the bloat.
Yeah, the price/hardware balance is good at Samsung (unless they use Exynos, man those can suck…). Good software update policy and the quality of it too. If Samsung gave an option to deliver a solid Pixel-like experience (just the regular Google bloat), i would’ve never left. Ever since they started “intergrating” their bloat into the actual settings/launcher, while still needing to update those apps through the Samsung Store, that did it for me. Now i’m going to use that A52s to try out custom roms and things like Lineage. Keeping my new one, Fairphone 5, as the “stable/non-bs” phone.
Just put of interest, what OS are you running on your main Fairphone?
Android 13