You are reading a single comment by @gbj_tester and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
gbj_tester
As phones have converged in physical characteristics, processor speed, RAM, camera, screen, wifi, bluetooth, NFC, fingerprint sensor, cahrging speed, wireless charging, etc, and deleted useful functions like memory card storage, user replaceable battery, the differentiator is now the 'service'.
My 'old' Moto G5G will never get an Android update and will, no doubt soon, stop receiving Android security updates. I suspect other Chinese manufacturers will be similarly slapdash about updates for their budget priced phones.
My Pixel 6a, to my surprise did receive the Android 15 in early December 2024, but there will come a day when it too no longer receives updates.
The advantage of the current Pixel phones is the guarantee of X years of operating system updates and Y years of security updates.
I am tempted by a Pixel 8Pro for the demonstrably better camera, but despair at the additional cost of opting for 256 rather than 128GB of on board storage.