Many don’t have to imagine because that’s just reality.

That is an outrageously long time to wait for a laptop without updates. From the prices I just looked up, it also is outrageously expensive.

I would have sought a refund before now already, but that’s just my opinion.

Expandable storage is #1, great screen would just barely edge out excessive bloatware for #2.

I guess I’m just bitching at this point because I know the sony is the only one that will fit what I want. Motorola is so close to filling the space that LG left behind, it’s unfortunate they haven’t realized they are just two features short of being unique at their price point. They don’t have the ecosystem, aren’t trying to create one, so why not pack in the features everyone else ignores?

I just really wish the EU could somehow create an argument to require memory card slots. I’ve been trying my best to come up with one myself, just to put it out there in the world.

Promising tech and features, but likely wouldn’t work in my area 😔

I could stick with samsung if it wasn’t for their bloatware and their terrible push notifications. And their UI. And their terrible ecosystem that pushes more data collection. And their terrible integration with google products. And their terrible boot system that pushes updates in the middle of the night, but doesn’t fully restart the phone so your texts, calls, and alarms don’t come through.

Seriously appreciate the suggestions because I have to catch up on phone specs since I never care about phones until I need to upgrade.

I had a couple hours to pick my current phone and my list of complaints and serious issues with it is outrageously long. I was seriously upset when LG left the phone market, and can’t believe how overlooked and downtrodden their phones were.

For me personally, I’m all about minimal bloatware, the best screen quality, at least decent chip performance, and expandable storage.

Bloat for obvious reasons.

Screen quality due to me usually only watching TV when with my spouse and/or sailing. Otherwise I’m using my phone.

My s20 FE’s chip is ok, but it was barely a jump from my v30, and now it’s feeling slow when I use a lot of CPU intensive apps. I’ve noticed detrimental file degradation when moving large files around my phone unless I clear all app usage and even then it can still create artifacts, and take a long time.

SD slot because the service in my area is garbage and I could never count on cloud storage that will also inevitably grow as I age. Plus sailing.

The moto being an LCD is pretty much a deal breaker for me. The 5V isn’t available here. The 1V is the only thing that checks every box, but the price is exorbant, the lack of wifi calling, bad auto photo mode, questionable durability, poor software support, lack of in depth reviews, and the general mystery surrounding the Sony software and UI makes me extremely hesitant for what I intend to be at least a 5 year phone.

I’m probably going to bite the bullet and get the Sony, but I’m still just so frustrated with the phone market. I keep getting the same responses from people like: “I just pay $5 a month for 500G”.

LIKE YOU REALIZE THAT THOSE HIGH RES CAMERAS YOU PAID A PREMIUM FOR ARE GOING TO CREATE LARGER FILES RIGHT? WHEN YOU RUN OUT OF THE 500G YOU WILL HAVE TO PAY $15 FOR THE NEXT TIER, EVERY MONTH, UNTIL YOU RUN OUT OF SPACE, WHICH WILL HAPPEN FAST WHEN YOUR 1 HOUR 4K 120FPS AI EFFECTS EDITED VIDEOS OF YOUR NEWBORNS BIRTH TAKE UP 20G, AND THEN IF YOU CANT AFFORD IT THEN YOUR CHERISHED MEMORIES WILL BE HELD HOSTAGE UNTIL YOU CAN PAY THE FEE TO STORE THEM, WHERE? ON A GODDAMN MEMORY CARD.

You know how every streaming provider is jacking their prices because people are hooked on their platform? That’s what companies will be doing with your cherished memories within the next 2 years.

Sorry for the rant. I’m a little high. Appreciate the suggestions buddy!

I’m desperately trying to find a new phone that isn’t a Samsung. I switched by force from LG to Samsung and even though the Samsung was 3 years newer, it was a downgrade.

It pushes so many notifications I have given up. I’m going to have to spend $1400 on a Sony just to retain my SD card slot and get rid of the bloatware.

Since starting my hunt, my garbage s20 is pushing so many s24 ads. Guess how many phones have an SD card slot and a FHD+ screen?

Nine. 4 of them are made by Sony.

Edit: I forgot to mention that my samsung phone also gave me a notification Ad for the S24. I didn’t think to screenshot it because my notifications are so aggressive that I have become brain dead to this bullshit. I can clear a wall of 15 and within 3 minutes have another wall of 10.

I have experienced it, and in my experience it was in no way possible for it to be confirmation bias. My wife and I sometimes do something weird where we just talk for hours. Crazy I know, but we bounce ideas off each other to an extent that we get into conversations about stuff we have never talked about nor ever searched for. Not even anything remotely close to related to things we search for.

We used to have and use a lot of Google home minis. Within hours we would see ads for the exact thing we were talking about. We would see ads for thing related to conversations we had within hours. We started getting hyper vigilant about it. We started randomly talking clearly and loudly about nonsense subjects and products that we have no sense to talk about and waiting to see how long it would take to see a suggested ad pushed to us by Google. It usually took less than 24 hours no matter what it was. This went on for months.

It became a running joke to us and I would walk into the room and say something like “I would love to buy a farberware brand vegetable peeler. There is nothing more that I would like than to purchase farberware brand appliances and homewares”. My wife would laugh, and usually before the end of the night I would have large targeted ads on my phone for farberware appliances.

Honestly since we stopped using the Google home minis (since they barely work with anything due to googles bullshit software support) it happens far far less.