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I'm no fan of foldable phones, but it's impressive that Huawei remains strong in the smartphone market, despite the restrictions imposed on them.
My wife still uses her 10 year old Huawei P7! And she dreads having to buy a new one, because of the enshittification of Android.
She wants the Nokia G42 for repairability, but you can't friggin remove the stupid google search on your home screen! What an idiotic design decision by Nokia!?!?
huawei is down 7% globally from 10% market share to 3.5%, they're not doing great, I think they're hanging on because of their Asia sales supplemented by federal support.
the not removable Google search on the home screen and non removable date on the home screen means that I will never buy another Google phone.
also, non-expandable storage? you fucking kidding me? what is even the point of a phone if it comes with 128 GB of storage. That's like eight good videos. It's insane.
I have been disappointed by the pixel in literally every way, and I don't know where to go next except probably Sony because their phones have front-facing speakers, and if I can't get decent software on any platform at least I can listen to music with decent hardware and root the thing.
I'm fairly sure that's just a launcher limitation, you can swap out the entire launcher to whatever you want. If you don't want something radically different I think lawnchair is still around.
https://lawnchair.app/
thanks, I'll check it out.