Predictably Boring

[going_home]

Broke down and bought an S8+ , found one on Craigslist for a great price.

Giving it a go.

October when the Pixel 2 is supposed to be released is a long way off, and then another month or two later when they start to get more reasonably priced on c/l.....

So far it's not bad, bigger screen.

Edit: not sure why Samsung chose to copy Google Assistant and call it Bixby.

Just remapped the Bixby button to the flashlight, thats kind of cool.

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Essential PH-1.

https://www.essential.com

Yep, best high end on the market for the price, half the price of Pixel2 XL, Iphone X, Note 8.

The 360 degree camera is pretty crazy too.

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Still have the Essential phone.

Takes good pics.

They arent updating the OS fast enough for me.

Still on 7.1.1 .

I'd get a Pixel 2 XL but they are still more than I'm willing to pay on craigslist....

[mobsterboy]

I can't stand to have something that I have to pay for memory upgrades. I find myself choosing based more on if it has a micro sd card slot or not. Then going from there.

I'm pretty happy with the Note 8. Only thing I'd like to have back from my Note 4 is the battery access back.

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I can't stand to have something that I have to pay for memory upgrades. I find myself choosing based more on if it has a micro sd card slot or not. Then going from there.

I'm pretty happy with the Note 8. Only thing I'd like to have back from my Note 4 is the battery access back.

What phone have you had to do that with ?

As long as its got 32gb thats sufficient for me.

The Essential phone is 128gb.

No SD slot needed.

[mobsterboy]

Apple is notorious for making you pay crazy amounts for the higher storage version. Its a crock of ****. just a damn cash grab.

I walk around with around 400gb of storage in the event that I need to save something, have to fly somewhere, get stuck in some random podunk town's hotel for a week, have to drive 8 hrs out of my way for work or something. I'd rather be prepared and have music, movies, tv shows available even without wifi access.

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Apparently Essential is skipping the Android 8.0 Nougat OS upgrade because of instability in the phone with it.

Have to wait on 8.1 now.