Tomous wrote:Carlos wrote:Tomous wrote:So I think my options are
Pixel 6 Pro, total contract cost £1,044 over 24 months
Samsung S22 Ultra, total contract cost £1,272 with 12 months Disney plus and Buds pro
Both 24 month contracts with o2 (I want that sweet free data roaming) and 30gb data
Extras for S22 are nice, I'd get use of both. Really torn. Or I can get a S22+ for £1,081.....which feels like it might be the middle ground. Not sure if Ultra would be too big and I doubt I'd use the S pen.
Even ignoring the S pen I think you’d be a fool to get any other phone than the S22 Ultra. It’s a beast of a device, has a great camera but crucially it won’t get borked by a software update further down the line which has happened to every other Google phone I have ever owned.
I had the S8 and the S10 and both were rock solid devices that took literally award winning photos, as in I won some photography competitions with the output of the S8.
These days I’m back with Apple, but only because I’m deeeeeep in that ecosystem. Samsung make by far the best Android devices.
Appreciate the reply, but could you expand more on the software borking point? And why Ultra is different?
I’m just going by personal experience. I am sure others might have something different to say.
I have had, from Google the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Pixel 1, Pixel 3, Pixel 4a.
Bar the Nexus 5 every single one of them ended up with a software update that added some sort of battery drain bug. I often looked around for others who had this same issue and whilst we were in a minority, we were not alone.
These bugs were never fixed by Google and the phones became borderline unusable (or at least somebody else’s problem once I sold them to Cex
) The Nexus 5 sadly developed another bug where the camera refused to autofocus on things.
These were all quality phones but they did put me off Google hardware for life. I have also had nearly every model of iPhone from the original to the 12 (I used to swap my phone every 6 months because I have problems) and never had any battery problems. The Galaxy S8 and S10 also never developed any issues.