Pros
- summary: performance, display, external flash drive speed (UFS 2.1), battery life, water resistance, audio output, and og audio output. I won't try to paint a picture because it's all been done to death in other critiques. Details. I deliberated for a while and based my decision on strict criteria. I was looking for the greatest camera available at the time, a standard audio connector (3.5 mm), a long-lasting battery, protection from dampness, and a somewhat safe design. And I was wary of getting a Chinese one (particularly in light of my previous terrible experience with Xiaomi's software). To ensure my financial stability for the next two to three years, I restricted my research to only the most recent one to one and a half years of models. (Here, Android is dismally inferior to iOS, with an average of 2 years of support compared to 6+ years for iOS; the longest period of support — for the Google Pixel — being 3 years from the beginning of sales. Before that, there was a Sony Xperia Z2 with cynogenmod installed from the get-go, which was then commanded to live long and prosper by its offspring, lineageos (with afwall + and all that goes along with it), but it had its share of issues, such as frequent restarts (both on their own and after a particularly lengthy charge), app crashes, etc. A great piece of gear that served me well for five years. A good camera was necessary to kill two birds with one stone and not acquire an additional camera (at least in the near future). Since the physical capabilities of the cameras are starting to reach their limit, the competition is now in the field of raw image processing software, I opted not to alter the original firmware on the s10+. In my opinion, ditching 3.5 mm is just a marketing tactic designed to make customers unhappy until they buy new models and return the old ones. We'll have to see.
Cons
- Round display. Yes, I realized that, but I still had to settle for it. It makes no practical sense to round up, so I assume it's mostly marketing like with the headphone jack. The comparison of identical UAG cases for this phone and the iPhone is an essential one. If it's the second option, it will stick out over the screen on all four sides; if it's the first option, it will only stick out over the screen at the top and bottom, resulting in a breakage rate of between 65 and 70 percent (depending on the relative lengths of the sides). * Completely flush (nearly) front face screen (and sensor). It's all about you. If there is no cover that increases the width, I have to abandon my habitual method of taking the phone and holding it snugly (hey, roundings again). As an aside, there is one in the package, but it is incredibly sleek and slippery. * There is no need to elaborate on the abundance of bloated animals; $ pm list packages | wc -l 412 beyond2q:/ After a restart, the operating system immediately consumes 2.7 Gigabytes of RAM. Thankfully, you can disable or delete most third-party apps through the interface, and the rest can be removed through adb (pm uninstall. ). You can get comprehensive information on xda-developers. Adb has been used to completely deactivate Bixby. When the screen is turned off, there is a severe lack of notice indicator. The z2 has a multicolored LED for this purpose, making it easy to not only check for missed notifications but also tell apart from, say, phone calls, text messages, and IMs.
