I Built My Own Phone Because Innovation Is Sad Rn [video]

The screen has some kind of streaking/ghosting effect that's so bad it would be instant wareanty in any other phone, exept it's not the physical screen but something with how it's being driven. It's worse an dimmer brighness leves, and it's worse with some kinds of images / screen contents.

The camera is simply garbage all around, pick any metric. Simple fucus, low light, motion, macro or fake macro by zoom, even simple outdoor daylight are barely ok compared to any other junk phone.

Reception sucks. All the receptions, lte, wifi, bt.

The open/close mechanism is the least convenient of any moving part I've ever used, the way there is no secure way to hold it to start the motion, then the loss of control during over-center snap. The laptop orientation with a camera bump so it wobbles on a table.

The cpu is slower than my pixel 4.

There is some stupidness with either the charging circuit or boot manager that if you ever simply allow the battery to die all the way, it can't start charging again and it's bricked unless you crack it open to access the cell itself.

All utter dogshit.

It has some checkboxes ticked like heaphone jack, removable sdcard, and of course the keyboard, but the thing sucks so bad to actually use that they don't matter.

I'm probably forgetting yet more things because even though I paid $700 or whatever it was, then waited 2 or 3 years for it to ship, and even though my pixel 4a5g died right before it arrived so I actually needed it, I still only used it for a few weeks and spent another 1300 importing an xperia they don't sell or support in the US. (to get a current flagship phone that actually has a headphone jack and removable sd and dual sim, and is at least rootable and you can modify the system apps if not run Lineage)

Oh yeah it's supposed to be an "xda phone" even with xda logo on the back, natively hackable... turns out no matter what os you want to run on it they all actually still have to use the same closed kernel. So you get to larp os control while still running under a kernel you can't replace.

That said, he works at Midjourney.. so it's a weird blind spot, if it's a blind spot.