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Cake day: November 25th, 2023

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  • Yeah if you can manage to get one without their outrageous official price, these are really amazing devices for enthusiasts, took me less than 3 minutes to unlock bootloader and root (most of the time spent by the full system wipe from unlocking bootloader). And they are some of the last flagship spec’ed phones that still have SD card support, and headphone jack, and they come with very clean AOSP-like ROM with minimal customization and no bloat, and because of that most of the root-empowered system customization tools developed for Pixel phones mostly work out of the box on these phones too



  • I’ve been seeing other posts about this too and I’m curious why this wasn’t updated on some ROMs.

    I use a Sony Xperia 1 VI which has very clean AOSP-like ROM with only a couple OEM customization features, and the Google Play System remains up to date without me having to maintain it manually. But I’m seeing at least Samsung and Xiaomi phones where people found this wasn’t automatically updated, perhaps it has something to do with some of the heavily OEM-customized ROMs? In that case it still surprised me Samsung didn’t even take care of this considering how they have a particularly close collaboration with Google…





  • This is just a Linux VM just like th Crostini in ChromeOS, so I’d expect similar 40%+ performance loss compares to for example proot container through Termux running natively.

    The only thing this could probably offer would be giving you better OS GUI Integration into Android, like Crostini on a ChromeOS device. But if that is needed you might as well just use an Android port or an Android equivalent of your Linux software anyway, it’s not like you’d ever want to run Matlab, GIMP or OpenFOAM on your Android phone with its tiny screen anyway LMAO







  • Finally!

    My biggest problem with bi-foldable phones so far is that they don’t actually offer enough of a screen size to really be the tablet replacement that is worth for all the downsides (like fragile screen, added weight and complexity and everything). But on the other hand it’s also just not possible to make a 10+ inches screen pocketable by folding it only once, whole still retaining an acceptable aspect ratio for both folded and unfolded forms.

    Trifold is the first step towards finally having a meaningful foldable phone.


  • I think the problem fundamentally stems from the fact that Android development is so hardware focused nowadays because hardware makers make so much money, and people seemed to have started forgetting Android is also an OS, with its own software ecosystem, including the ecosystem of OS mods.

    But we have not been seeing nearly as many news about new cool app that explores new ways to redefine functionality and UX design. There’s just not much exciting things going on in the Android software and it’s ecosystem these days it feels like, almost as if it’s not just stagneted but also somehow enshitified as a whole :(




  • Yeah it’s certainly interesting that at least one vendor is trying to push for such a specific extreme niche. You do have to give up pretty much everything else for it, only 1 year software support, on buggy software made by a very small and not-resourceful company with poor software quality and support track record, no SD card slot, no IP rating, and no unlockable bootloader even so no root and not custom ROM after they end the official software support, etc.

    But yes, looks like if the only thing you need is the best of the best sustained performance, this one is the best choice among all phones with this SoC.