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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Have to look at the included bands and see if it covers all the bands you Carrier requires. A lot of euro phones won't work with Verizon for instance, because they don't include band 13.

*I checked and it doesn't appear to have the bands included that many of the big carriers in the US use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mostly agree except I drive older vehicles out of warranty. Manuals last longer and are cheaper to fix so depending on what vehicle I'm buying I may look specifically for a manual if it's a known "weak spot" for that particular vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ergonomics wise, but can you have those where it can charge it at the same time, do you want to wear out your $1000 cell phone battery, and I doubt any of those controllers work as nicely as a ps5 controller. Plus the screen is smaller and you won't have a lag free audio jack.

Plus the good ones that you attach to phones are already $100. At that point I'd rather spend an extra $100 to have something better, bigger, and dedicated?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have a steam deck and I've used controllers with phone mounts. Even though the overall weight of the SD if much more, it it way more comfortable to play for a long time because the weight is between your hands and not top heavy. Also, your phone is smaller than an 8" screen.

As to who it's for? Every kid/teen who'd like to play ps5 from their room sometimes, even though the ps5 is set up in the family room. Every time it's the little brother/sisters turn to have the TV and they want to watch frozen for the 47th time. When your spouse wants to binge watch more of their show on Netflix and you still want to hang out in the same room. When mom or dad want to play GTA 5 without the 7 year old see you beat a hooker with a baseball bat. When you're sick in bed and still want to game. When you have an addiction and don't even want to stop playing when you go to take a shit (ew).

No, this isn't a product for everyone. This is a product for families and couples. And really, it's not a whole lot of money by today's standards. It's $200 and there's a $70 controller strapped to it. So an extra $130 gets you a screen bigger than your phones in a more comfortable spot for a screen and a battery pack.

Seems like everyone's batching about it not doing things a switch or steam deck would do, when it's not trying to be a switch or steamdeck. It just wants to let you play games anywhere in your house without causing problems with anyone else that lives with you.

If I had a PS5 and no steam deck, I'd want one. Half the time I use my steam deck is at home because I want to play some games from a different area of my house.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used Ralay for reddit app on reddit and I've been using Connect for Lemmy, but I've been on website on both.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Going from like 30 million users and bots down to 50 thousand people will do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

About the users? Nothing.

How commenting flows and moves is a bit more of a pain to navigate, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not that extreme. Recording alone on a newer phone uses 1GB in 8 minutes and that's not even 4k.

Then you have games. One of the most popular games in the world is Genshin Impact and its been downloaded 50,000,000+ times from Google play. It also currently needs 20GB of space.

Sure, most people don't need over 128GB, but ones that do are far from extreme outliers. Personally I travel a lot and don't usually have consistent data when I do, so I keep a couple hundred gigs of TV shows and movies on my phone to watch, along with games.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

If you were in the US I'd recommend you pick up a used Note 20 Ultra that comes with 128GB and an expansion slot for up to another 1TB.

I keep tons of pictures, movies, Netflix downloads, and TV shows on my phone and never touch cloud storage.

Only issue is that outside the US is mostly exynos chips instead of snapdragon and they weren't nearly as good. Can you import? Would your carrier work with a snapdragon variant?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Been a little hard to get used to, but I've mostly transitioned over from reddit, like I went to it from Digg.

Been using the Connect apk for my phone and everything seems pretty nice with it.

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