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‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec.::Samsung’s head of product is now saying that every photo is fake. Samsung’s new Galaxy S24 phones increase the ways that the company uses AI to produce pictures.

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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Got Fairphone 5 but I can only compare it to my old phone, a Samsung Galaxy A3 I've used for about 13 years. Main complaint is the speaker: points down and sounds worse than my old phone. 90Hz OLED looks great. Perhaps it's mediocre too in comparison to modern phones but I want to avoid using proprietary software. Most phones might as well not even exist.

I wanted a case that covers the screen but Fairphone only have a side cover. Got lucky with one from a 3rd party but it doesn't turn off the screen when I close the cover like my old phone case did. I assume that had a chip in it or there's a software setting I've not found.

Also, I didn't know I could get it with /e/ already installed so I've been trying out stock Android in the meanwhile.

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Got lucky with one from a 3rd party but it doesn't turn off the screen when I close the cover like my old phone case did. I assume that had a chip in it or there's a software setting I've not found.

Samsung was pretty much one of the only manufacturers installing hall sensors under the display to detect the magnets in their flip cases. I think they stopped including that sensor around the time they got rid of the hardware home button. Their latest tablets still do include a case sensor AFAIK, not sure if it's the same hall effect one or something else though.

As a side note I miss those cases with the small window, was pretty cool to be able to just flip the lid, see the time, then stuff the phone away

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

That's a damn shame. I guess modern phones auto wakeup with fingerprint readers or face recognition?