I dont exactly have a problem spending $2000 on something, but $2000 for a phone is just stupid.
I guess you could say that about a lot of things; cars, etc.
But just on principle. That phone is not costing 4x more to make, and is not giving me 4x the value as a $500 phone. Or, fuck, give me 10x the value of the $200 phone I have right now that does absolutely everything I want (I guess a better camera would be nice).
I have an expensive phone. It’s a Fold 6 - I got it after using a Fold 3 for 4 years, and replacing it when the outer screen of all things stopped working, and the trade-kn on my old phone was still worth like $1,200 towards the new one even with a broken screen.
I used to get a new-model mid-range phone every year or 2. Now when I buy I go for the previous year’s flagship and use it for a longer period. Financially it’s probably a wash, though I know I could absolutely be spending less and be just fine.
But it’s the piece of personal tech I interact with the most and for that I’m able to afford it, so I’m willing to spend the money.
All this stuff about the memory crisis; I don’t think phones suddenly cost 4x more to make and if they do, how about don’t put fucking 16GB of RAM in phones?
The company that made the Nexdock is planning to make a phone. It will be Android but it can bring up a full Linux desktop that can access the Android storage. I am considering getting it and only using Android for calls, texts, and a couple apps while I install phosh UI in the distro and focus on using that.
yeah the issue with these is cooling, that’s why neo turned whole chassis into a heatsink, so I’m a bit sceptical based on the quick showcase video they show on the webpage.
I dont exactly have a problem spending $2000 on something, but $2000 for a phone is just stupid.
I guess you could say that about a lot of things; cars, etc.
But just on principle. That phone is not costing 4x more to make, and is not giving me 4x the value as a $500 phone. Or, fuck, give me 10x the value of the $200 phone I have right now that does absolutely everything I want (I guess a better camera would be nice).
I have an expensive phone. It’s a Fold 6 - I got it after using a Fold 3 for 4 years, and replacing it when the outer screen of all things stopped working, and the trade-kn on my old phone was still worth like $1,200 towards the new one even with a broken screen.
I used to get a new-model mid-range phone every year or 2. Now when I buy I go for the previous year’s flagship and use it for a longer period. Financially it’s probably a wash, though I know I could absolutely be spending less and be just fine.
But it’s the piece of personal tech I interact with the most and for that I’m able to afford it, so I’m willing to spend the money.
All this stuff about the memory crisis; I don’t think phones suddenly cost 4x more to make and if they do, how about don’t put fucking 16GB of RAM in phones?
I can see 16GB phones being useful, but there needs to be cheaper options
The only use I can see for them is gaming and there are better devices for that, for less money.
Running your own LLM models is another one I guess, but I don’t think there’s many people doing that.
Some of us enjoy mobile gaming
But if you had the choice between playing on a phone and playing on a Steam Deck/ROG Ally/MSI thing would you still stick to your phone?
Yes :) because firstly I can carry my phone in my pocket everywhere and secondly it’s nice to not have Yet Another Device.
I would maybe consider spending $2000 on a phone if it was functionally as usable as a laptop. Which Android is not.
Apple could totally make their new phones work with MacOS as they’ve shown with the MacBook Neo, when connected to a monitor, but they won’t.
It would be pretty amazing if they did though.
I think a powerful Linux phone plus a laptop chassis that connects to the phone somehow and turns it into a laptop would be really nice
The company that made the Nexdock is planning to make a phone. It will be Android but it can bring up a full Linux desktop that can access the Android storage. I am considering getting it and only using Android for calls, texts, and a couple apps while I install phosh UI in the distro and focus on using that.
https://nexphone.com/
yeah the issue with these is cooling, that’s why neo turned whole chassis into a heatsink, so I’m a bit sceptical based on the quick showcase video they show on the webpage.
The iPhone run power intensive games, would macos really be much worse than that?
Im sure OEMs could figure it out.
I’d pay 2 grand for a car if it was running
I do not have $2000 so I would mind spending that much on anything