With the advancements in technology, particularly AI now, what is the smartest smartphone in your opinion? And I don’t mean in terms of raw power or tech specs, but rather the likes of the OS, UI, or features and functions.
You’re going to have to be more specific or this will turn into a shit thread of Apple vs Samsung vs niche models.
Remove that /s and I agree, my current phone doesn’t have one but there are days I wish it did. Same for laptops no longer having a DVD drive.
I miss headphone jack so bad.
I have to buy two pairs just to go through the day.
They cost twice as much for same audio quality.
You can’t split audio with someone else.
Price and battery don’t make them most convenient thing to throw in bag, glove compartment to have for a rainy day.
three things battery to keep track of.
I was really pissed off about the headphone jack, but now I don’t have one, I honestly don’t miss it.
Got a £20 pair of over ear wireless headphones, the sound quality is indistinguishable from wired, the battery lasts ages and I never get headphone cables caught up on anything anymore.
The Fairphone probably, as it’d be pretty dumb to unnecessarily use materials from child labor and other inhumane conditions where available.
It follows from this that even smarter is to just keep using the phone you are using instead of upgrading, of course.
I’m not thinking of upgrading, it was just a question. So why not get off that high horse.
With skin that thin, I’m going to assume your username is not in reference to your time spend in the military.
Entirely depends on the software you install on it?!
I mean the OS and UI don’t give you “smartness”. And I’m not completely sure about the definition. I for example think it’s smart not letting big tech companies steal all your data. So I might choose a different OS and different Apps than somebody else.
Concerning AI: I think ChatGPT runs on all of them. And I think all the assistants also run more or less in the cloud and don’t depend on the exact phone model. However, there are AI things that run on the phone itself. Camera picture enhancement and speech recognition for example.
Manufacturers often advertise with new AI features and unlock them on their newest flagship models. So the answer to your question regarding AI in preinstalled apps is probably: The current most expensive flagship models of Google/Samsung/Apple. One will have a slightly better camera AI, one a better photo editor and one a better AI assistant.
This is like asking “what computer can run Doom the best?”
My dude, they all can.
Right.
It’s absolutely not worth buying the latest and greatest flagships anymore. The experience to the user is almost identical whether you’re spending £1000 or £300.
Personally I’d much rather spend that £700 difference elsewhere and just buy a new phone that’s a couple of generations old.
Any phone that can run GrapheneOS, which is arguably the most secure full-featured (as in: all the functionality you’d expect in a modern smartphone + compatible with popular mobile apps) mobile OS right now.
GrapheneOS is heavily focused on protection against attackers exploiting unknown (0 day) vulnerabilities. They employ techniques such as attack surface reduction (stripping out unnecessary code, disabling insecure components etc); using hardened system components (such as the kernel) that makes it much harder for hackers to exploit; and finally using sandboxing technologies (eg per-website browser sandbox, app sandboxing, media codec sandboxing etc).
A more interesting thing is the sandboxed Google Play Services support, which allows the option to use Google apps (such as the Play Store) in a fully sandboxed environment without granting them any special privileges.
You should check out the full feature set, it’s a LOT more impressive than what I hastily summarised above.
This focus on both privacy and security, with minimal negative impact to the user experience, IMO makes GrapheneOS probably the smartest choice for users concerned about mobile security and therefore, phones which run GrapheneOS (currently only Google Pixel phones) would be the smartest smartphone.
