To celebrate a particular movie’s nominations for the Golden Globes next Sunday, Jan 7, we are hosting our very own Golden Lemmy award for Best Android Device on !android@lemmy.world.
Rules are simple, tell us about your favorite Android phone from 2023 in the top level comment, and the device with the most up votes wins the esteemed and coveted Golden Lemmy Award, along with 1 Lemmy Silver.
Our regular discussion will resume in 2 weeks.
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I HATE my Samsung S22+ - it is literally the only phone I have ever regretted purchasing.
Probably most of that is b/c I refuse to make a Samsung account:-P.
Pixel 8 Pro. Google’s current flagship device, arguably the most secure device on the market, and is first to include Memory Tagging Extension (MTE). As such, it is supported by GrapheneOS, which I highly recommend due to the increased security and control over your own phone (starting with sandboxing the Play Store if you use it, and not giving Google full system privileges like stock/OEM OS does).
When fully integrated into the compiler and each heap allocator, MTE enforces a form of memory safety. It detects memory corruption as it happens. 4 bit tags limit it to probabilistic detection for the general case, but deterministic guarantees are possible via reserving tags.
In hardened_malloc, we deterministically prevent sequential overflows by excluding adjacent tags. We exclude a tag reserved for free tag and the previous tag used for the previous allocation in the slot to help with use-after-free detection alongside FIFO and random quarantines.
Hear me out:
Samsung Galaxy S5
Pros:
- User replaceable battery
- water resistant and dust resistant
- Custom OSes available, easily flashable*
- Headphone jack
- IR blaster
- Heart rate monitor
*Flashing will vlow the eFuse and disable Knox. It will also make it a bit more difficult to use some apps.
Negatives:
- Its old hardware is prob gonna struggle to run most things these days.
(I’m half kidding. My S23 Ultra is hot garbage for features. Fuckers even stripped the SD card support out so my storage just got cut significantly unless I pay for a subscription instead of a single payment on an SD card that I can access in a Faraday Cage if I wanted to. Idk why they care so much about camera quality - especially when they’ve just made it more difficult and expensive to store images in bulk. If you want pro pictures, get an SLR and take pro pictures. You don’t expect that from a laptop, why do we expect it from a pocket computer?)
The best camera is the one you have on you. It’s one of the basics of photography. I don’t carry an slr with me all the time for good reason, but I do have my phone, and it being able to take good pictures is important to me.
I also often carry an APS-C mirrorless with me when carrying stuff is less of an issue, and it certainly takes way better photos, most of the time.
