I don't like Apple because it's a walled garden and millions other reasons.
I don't like Samsung because they bloat Android.
I don't like Huawei because I don't trust the Chinese government to not do stuff to it.
I don't like LG and HTC because the smartphone market is slipping away from them.
Am I just getting old?
Unfortunately, most people in the US have no idea Sony even makes phones because the company has utterly neglected to market them here.
(I wish them luck...)
I bought the BQ Ubuntu tablet. I hate to say it, but it's terrible. You have to set up a cloud account with Canonical to download or update apps (no reason given). Most of the apps are pretty bad. It's constantly pinging YouTube and news websites to show me stuff I don't care about, and can't turn off. No easy way to set up a VPN. No CalDAV, CardDAV. Difficult to imagine Shuttleworth himself using one.
Fine for watching films on airplanes, but very little else.
That's not true, it's right there in the network settings. I use it. Maybe it just doesn't support the type of VPN you want to use?
It's tolerable, and refreshingly non-intrusive compared to Android. At one point I started craving Snapchat and put Android back on, but all the intrusive nag screens put me off and I went back to Ubuntu.
It crashes a lot but that might just be my Nexus 4, it used to do it on Android too.
It's a bit slow, the camera app is rubbish, there's no Snapchat, the email client has some weird bugs, there's no adblock. But it has Telegram, and it can do calls and texts, the web browser is OK, and the terminal app is good.
Americans - tap the network backbone.
What's the difference?
I see what you did there (o;
I've never seen appeal in new release phones. If there was some high end Android game I'd want to play, I wouldn't want to play it on a tiny screen anyway and I'd just play it on ARC. As it was, I still think the S4 is plenty spiffy a device for day to day use, and my S5 is even faster than that.
It is similar on the desktop. Who needs a high end i7 when an AMD APU does good enough? Unless you need performance, riding the bleeding edge is a waste of money and frustration when things break.
I don't like Samsung because they bloat Android.
Also, I use google's keyboard, but once in a while, samsung puts back theirs (after an update or whatever), and it infuriates me.
Samsung _does_ get in my way, but it's possible it's because I have an old phone and the newer ones are better at this.
I see it uses USB-C but I don't understand the difference between Dash Charging and just regular fast charging over USB-C. It feels like unnecessary confusion.
Even after Googling I'm left wondering what the difference is beyond patents - as a user why do I care about this what method it uses to charge quickly?
Just charge quickly, and do it with any (specs compliant) USB-C cable if it can be negotiated with the power brick.
This is an interesting option for a phone despite that though, I'll have to find a colleague or friend who has it to checkout the OS and inspect for bloatware but this looks promising.
You might call the branding unnecessary confusion, but in my experience it's been a differentiating feature, one that less tech savvy people I know mention when talking about reasons to switch to a OnePlus 3. And it's not a marketing gimmick either; I've seen it work in real life, and it's speed is kind of incredible.