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Comment by Scene_Cast2

10 hours ago

They were one of the brands with unlockable bootloaders and slide switches for mute. Unfortunately the Oppo takeover didn't preserve either.

Written on a OnePlus 8 Pro.

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alias_neo  9 hours ago

I still have my OnePlus 9 Pro, sadly I smashed the screen on day 2. Despite the broken screen it still feels and looks like a more premium device than my Pixel 9 Pro XL in terms of hardware, but the software really went down hill after the switch to the OPPO software.

Now I want rid of the pixel because they destroyed battery life with an update in march they've still not fixed.

  • red-iron-pine  8 hours ago

    pixels are fine, just put graphineOS on there.

    only gripes I have are mapping apps are slow to initialize. i don't drive uber tho, so it's not terribly inconvenient

    • alias_neo  8 hours ago

      The software is the differentiator these days with all the flagship hardware being basically the same.

      I would love to de-Google, but I need my banking apps, tap-to-pay and Android Auto and a top-quality camera that just works flawlessly.

      If Graphene can do all of those I'll move, but the friction is high, I have passkeys and apps that have to be "migrated" such as banking apps, and various other stuff that is nigh impossible without a second device.

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electroglyph  9 hours ago

i just today pulled the back off my old oneplus 8 pro and put a new battery in it after putting lineageos on there. i decided i was tired of using my locked down Samsung that's full of crap

LorenDB  9 hours ago

My OnePlus 13 has a slider switch. Isn't the 15 the only flagship OnePlus that dropped the slider?

  • Scene_Cast2  8 hours ago

    I meant that they're increasingly converging to be Oppo phones (now running the same OS, hardware is a slightly tweaked Oppo phone variant, etc).

cmoski  10 hours ago

The loss of the slider switch still breaks my heart. It is my most loved feature on the phone.