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Four cores, each with more computing power then existed in the known universe when I was born.

The Cortex-A53 is certainly a respectable processor within its design constraints. It is from 2012, and I think it is either the smallest or the second-smallest implementation of AArch64 that Arm have designed. It is very power-efficient, and that was the design goal. You definitely can make an SoC that only has “efficiency” cores, and it can even run Android, but putting it in a smartphone indicates that pure manufacturing cost is your only design consideration.

Executing more bloat, than all of the code that existed when you were born

My experience with HMD ("Nokia") phones has been that they've come quite bloat-free from the factory. There are the Google apps (because no normal Android user outside of maybe China would buy a phone without those) but other than that the ROM has always been very clean.

If you load it up with Tiktok and Instagram and whatever else likes to run in the background all the time, it'll certainly be bogged down, but HMD phones themselves are normally clean when you buy them*

*=unless you buy them through a carrier which customises the OS, like people in the US often seem to choose for some reason. But that's because the carrier loads those phones with bloat, not because HMD does.

Interesting, which HMD models have you used and have you used Spotify or Youtube with bluetooth headphones on them? I wonder how they perform.

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