Can we stop using “leak” as another word for “advert”?
Without a headphone jack, not sure if I’ll be staying with the Pixel series.
But the A series still has a better camera than other budget phones, right?
The camera should be better. But, what midrange smartphones still provide a headphone Jack? I have all but seen it disappear alongside fading sdcard support.
Sony still puts them on all their phones.
Their new models are expensive but if you get the last year’s or 2 years old model it’s a lot cheaper. The differences between years are minimal anyway because they already put everything you could want in them. They mostly just switch to newer components.
I wouldn’t define the A series as “budget”, but yes - the cameras are very good for the price. I briefly used a 7a last year and the only other phone I’ve seen that was comparable in that price range was the A54.
The chip is the obvious problem here. Samsung’s manufacturing is thermally inferior to something like snapdragon. Let’s see what 2025 pixel can do after switching to tsmc.
