Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8
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I so strongly disagree with that. The Snapdragon 7 gen 4 in the Fairphone6 is roughly on par with the Snapdragon 888 from 2020 (S21 series). You couldn’t pay me to daily drive an S21 Ultra, let alone pay 67% of an S25 (a mid cycle phone) for a phone with a 4 year old performance profile. 600$ can be a used S24 Ultra.
Android app devs just don’t optimize their apps enough that I’d be comfortable rocking this phone 3 years from now, which if I did, I’d be using a 7 year old processor at that point. No one in their right mind should have a phone that old.
Using a Pixel 8a with a Tensor G3, a chip that's regularly called a bit underpowered.
My phone before that had a Snapdragon 765G, another pretty midrange SoC. I couldn't name a single app that isn't running perfectly fluently.
I dunno what apps you are using, but as far as I can see, there just isn't any relevant difference in daily usage between current mid-range and flagship SoCs.
Software is what matters to me, and you couldn't pay me to use a phone to use a phone on OneUI, with, if the current news are accurate, no more path to running anything other than the Stock Rom.
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I agree but Trump's death wont un-open Pandora's box.
True, just like how shoving a rag in the hole isn't going to stop the leak in the boat, but it may help a bit.
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I thought that OEM unlocking was removed years ago? That's why I've not bought Samsung phones since the mid-2010s.
They had a thing that would blow a fuse if you unlocked your phone. Did they get rid of that for a while?
I know that you can't load fully custom ROMs on Samsung like GrapheneOS, but you can on Pixel
Smaller stuff like unlocking the bootloader for adb shell access I've always been able to do on my z fold 4. Maybe not anymore.
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Where have you been the last 10 years? Very few devices have allowed bootloader unlocking, Samsung is no exception with their US market devices.
Who else does it (as of now) other than Google (Pixel)
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Who else does it (as of now) other than Google (Pixel)
OnePlus, and a couple other Chinese brands (so long as you jump through their hoops). I may be forgetting some.
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I thought that OEM unlocking was removed years ago? That's why I've not bought Samsung phones since the mid-2010s.
They had a thing that would blow a fuse if you unlocked your phone. Did they get rid of that for a while?
Fyi the "feature" was called KNOX
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Why is it that this news came so late?! The update to one UI 7 came mounts ago and it did the same thing only i noticed it just now checking the settings. Had been aware I wouldn't have updated, rooted it and put free os in it's place. There must surely have a way to unlock it..?! Seriously fuck them I bought this shit! We the consumers should sue them collectively!!
That's clearly big tech corporates raping us ( individuals) in the ass!
It's an attempt on our freedom of choice. Fuck them all! Fuck their security bullshit, apps comming from fdroid are far more secure then those that come from evils google and samsung app store.
Hell is paved with good intentions! Security my ass!
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Who else does it (as of now) other than Google (Pixel)
Sony since ever.
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I thought that OEM unlocking was removed years ago? That's why I've not bought Samsung phones since the mid-2010s.
They had a thing that would blow a fuse if you unlocked your phone. Did they get rid of that for a while?
they were not yet blocking it with knox, they were permanently tainting your device with it if you decided to assert your ownership rights
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No complaints regarding performance with a 2018' Poco F1 here. Use better apps.
using bad apps and aligning your hardware needs is like eating junk fast food, it's kind of the users fault for accepting and enabling that developer behavior.
most of the time someone thinks they need an app they are either wrong, or the sweet convenience speaks from them. resisting being treated like shit is so so hard for most that they just accept whatever.
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I so strongly disagree with that. The Snapdragon 7 gen 4 in the Fairphone6 is roughly on par with the Snapdragon 888 from 2020 (S21 series). You couldn’t pay me to daily drive an S21 Ultra, let alone pay 67% of an S25 (a mid cycle phone) for a phone with a 4 year old performance profile. 600$ can be a used S24 Ultra.
Android app devs just don’t optimize their apps enough that I’d be comfortable rocking this phone 3 years from now, which if I did, I’d be using a 7 year old processor at that point. No one in their right mind should have a phone that old.
My Xiaomi Mi A1 sporting Android 13 says: "hold my beer… "
