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[ocnbrze]

What on earth do you use your phone for? My 50 dollar phone has a 720p 6" screen without those stupid rounded corners of an Iphone,so I can use all the screen, happily plays videos without stutter, plays games smoothly, browses the internet without a problem, makes phonecalls, has a loud enough speaker so I can sit it on the desk (why do people get hands free kits when all phones have speakers?) texts perfectly with a very good autocorrect, will make 10 hours of phonecalls on a single charge, and takes reasonable photographs and videos, what else do you need?

i use my Note 10+ for watching streaming, playing games and also for photos and taking notes. i have to have my S-pen. it comes in handy at work and i use it for all sorts of things. been playing Stadia on it just recently. i'm curious on what that will be like when the z fold 3 comes out.

Is the same true of Windows phones? I always assumed they made those install with a generic OS, like on a PC. Or were they all made by Microsoft themselves so were identical?

the only windows phone that i know being made is the surface duo. i don't think they have any other phones still in production.

 

[lunatic59]

Is the same true of Windows phones? I always assumed they made those install with a generic OS, like on a PC. Or were they all made by Microsoft themselves so were identical?

It's true for all mobile devices, IoT devices, cars, TV's ... literally everything that is not a computer (desktop/laptop/server) has unique firmware.

 

[Sunny Rio]

i use my Note 10+ for watching streaming, playing games and also for photos and taking notes. i have to have my S-pen. it comes in handy at work and i use it for all sorts of things. been playing Stadia on it just recently. i'm curious on what that will be like when the z fold 3 comes out.

I can do all that on my 50 dollar VKWorld phone. I guess yours looks shiny or something

the only windows phone that i know being made is the surface duo. i don't think they have any other phones still in production.

I didn't mean they were still being made, I just assumed Microsoft being Microsoft would standardise it with the desktop Windows OS. We all saw the mess they made when they tried to make the desktop OS look like a phone (Windows 8 Metro).

 

[Sunny Rio]

It's true for all mobile devices, IoT devices, cars, TV's ... literally everything that is not a computer (desktop/laptop/server) has unique firmware.

I don't see why they have to be like that. Anyone making a phone to run Android 10 could design it so it uses generic drivers that come with that OS.

 

[lunatic59]

That wouldn't be possible. You'd end up with basically one phone, one set of features and one OS, which wouldn't be competetive or give any manufacturer any incentive to build it. On the other hand, to make a mobile device robust enough to support a universal installer it would have to have 50~60 GB just for the OS and drive the cost up exponentially. But I'm sure you would still want your $50 phone.

 

[Sunny Rio]

That wouldn't be possible. You'd end up with basically one phone, one set of features and one OS, which wouldn't be competetive or give any manufacturer any incentive to build it. On the other hand, to make a mobile device robust enough to support a universal installer it would have to have 50~60 GB just for the OS and drive the cost up exponentially. But I'm sure you would still want your $50 phone.

My $50 phone has 32GB. So it wouldn't be much more. I doubt the storage is a huge fraction of the cost.