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Crone

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I feel like if you hold a phone that long, you just are at the point that you don't know what you are missing.
 
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Mageling

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Finally decided to pick up an S8 to see what flagships are all about these days and have been nothing but disappointed so far. I get that the screen is goddamn wonderful, but there's too many small niggles to spend $800 and feel good about it.

Are there any SD835 devices that are 5" or less right now? My Trump-sized hands can't deal with these bullshit 5.5"+ phones that are the seemingly only devices with decent specs. I guess I could wait for the Xperia XZs, but who the hell knows when that will land.

Back to the 6P for a while! (Also, how the fuck is an SD810 faster than a 2.5 year newer processor in the S8? I drop far more frames than I did previously with the 6P.
 
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Crone said:
I feel like if you hold a phone that long, you just are at the point that you don't know what you are missing.
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not that much of a technological leap at least for three years..just more apps, softwares, faster speed, etc etc..
 
Flipmode

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Mageling said:
Finally decided to pick up an S8 to see what flagships are all about these days and have been nothing but disappointed so far. I get that the screen is goddamn wonderful, but there's too many small niggles to spend $800 and feel good about it.

Are there any SD835 devices that are 5" or less right now? My Trump-sized hands can't deal with these bullshit 5.5"+ phones that are the seemingly only devices with decent specs. I guess I could wait for the Xperia XZs, but who the hell knows when that will land.

Back to the 6P for a while! (Also, how the fuck is an SD810 faster than a 2.5 year newer processor in the S8? I drop far more frames than I did previously with the 6P.
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Did you just complain about the S8 being too big? And going back to the 6p of all phones?
 
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Mageling

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Flipmode said:
Did you just complain about the S8 being too big? And going back to the 6p of all phones?
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Indeed I did say that. I tried out the 6P about a year and a half ago because my Nexus 5 finally shit the bed. I hate the size of the 6P, but it runs smoothly and was cheap at the time. I was running an Xperia X, but after the last Concept ROM from Sony made BT almost unusable I decided to move back to a device that worked well (software-wise) for me.

I'd decided the S8 wasn't it for me for a myriad of reasons. I've only used it a week and a half, and I'm finding things that I really don't care for.

  • Fingerprint reader is in a terrible position for left-handed users
  • Frame drops were higher than the almost 2 year old 6P
  • Bixby is fucking terrible, and remapping the button requires accessibility services, which has a negative impact on frame rate
  • The fact that the SD835 is outperformed by the older SD810 makes me a sad panda
  • On two occasions so far I have had my phone simply stop charging around 65% battery within 9 days
Those are my biggest gripes with the S8 so far, and enough for me to warrant not spending $850 after taxes.

Additionally, that's why I had questioned
 
Destiny's Paw

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Sounds like the S8 & + is giving the Snapdragon 835 a bad rap. It's biggest upgrade is the Artificial Learning on the 10 Nm platform modem. Is this SD 810 a better modem than the SD 835?
 
Daezuel

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Whelp, Wife's Nexus 6p has been retired to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean. Looks like I need to find her another phone. No fucking clue what to get now, what happened to inexpensive phones Google? Oneplus 5 isn't even out for a few days here and then will be impossible to get?

Any suggestions for phones at least as good as a 6p and not over $800?
 
Destiny's Paw

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Daezuel said:
Whelp, Wife's Nexus 6p has been retired to the bosom of the Pacific Ocean. Looks like I need to find her another phone. No fucking clue what to get now, what happened to inexpensive phones Google? Oneplus 5 isn't even out for a few days here and then will be impossible to get?

Any suggestions for phones at least as good as a 6p and not over $800?
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Might check out U11 or just wait for the OP5. They are coming with a couple of phone colors.
 
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