Good news; a true necessity if eSIM is to be consumer friendly.

A smartphone is the ultimate, single-user personal computer. Choosing a device is too intimate for me to use any sort of tabular comparison tool. The device needs to be right for me qualitatively also.

I strongly recommend picking a handful of devices and getting a variety of opinions from reviewers. Then, weigh those opinions against what features are most important to you.

If this is your main computer which most likely it is for most people, it’s worthwhile to spend some time on selection.

People get so hostile over such things. I have an iPhone for business. I have a Pixel for my personal use. They’re alright. It depends on what you need. Still a smartphone enthusiast.

There’s a lot of inertia to overcome here. There’s advice online everywhere that Android may not the best platform for tablets. As someone who loved the Nexus 7, until you have a large user base that’s using the tablets, it’s a tougher sell to developers and to users especially that iPads are cheaper now than they have been in the past.

It’s an uphill battle. Google has to pay those taxes for doing such a terrible job of getting into the tablet as its own related but different market from mobile.

Is this basically Ubuntu?

They do intentionally hold back packages based on a random value to do gradual rollouts. See below:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1431940/what-are-phased-updates-and-why-does-ubuntu-use-them

Could this be your issue?

Oh, my heart. I remember messaging my now wife with one on Skype. It was so laggy because my phone was super budget but I was amazed what I could do nonetheless.

I can still feel the plastic texture and the delayed vibration following a half second later.

You might be surprised. My father uses a device about that age, but it’s a Facebook machine and phone call device. It’s fine for the use case if you’re not the type to place valuable information on your phone anyways.

I think this is because now the consumer knows what he or she wants. It’s hard to build a mobile UI without expectations of consistency.

Back then, Android was more marching to the beat of its own drummer as it were and more dramatically crafting its design language, its visual identify.

I’m curious to see if this will be merely a packaged version of the web page or something more.

One wonders if dropping Play Services support is enough to motivate a user who is already sufficiently determined to use a phone this outdated.

Perhaps you were being sarcastic, but I’m very excited about this feature. I often visit rural areas, and if I got a flat I would love my phone to be useful for letting family know what’s going on.

If it helps, I only have a high refresh phone display. I don’t notice the difference when I’m using my slower displays because I’m not used to seeing those applications at a higher refresh rate. It doesn’t seem to bother my mind.

I only notice it when I’m using another phone at a lower refresh rate.

Precisely this. I didn’t notice it much when I started using it, but I switch between phones frequently for software development, and I definitely feel the difference. It’s nice, but it’s not a life-changing difference. It’s just a difference.

Wow! It was hardly worth it to begin with.

Eczema, where your typical lotion just won’t cut it.

Who knew that removing functionality and limiting access to your product was the path to social media success.

I don’t think shortage means what they think it means. Just because you can’t find people at the price and working conditions you’re willing to offer doesn’t mean there’s a shortage. It might just mean that you’re cheap.

I did not read the HN comments about this, but at a glance, the SoC appears to be the RK3568 which is really lame. It comes in the NanoPi, and you’re looking at four Cortex-A55, the smallest efficiency core they still use in the last couple year’s smartphones. This strikes me as massively underpowered to be called a real “Desktop” experience.

Flagship smartphone from five years ago will run circles around it.

Oh wow, I did not know that! They don’t seem to be the animated versions that I’m a little more familiar with. That was years ago and I don’t remember exactly how I produced these.

My wife and I fell in love over the blobs. I keep screenshots of them on my phone so I can text her using them to this today. It’s clunky, but they’re exactly the ones I want to use sometimes.