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[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Last with a headphone jack on the flagship too. This is why I picked one up lash year.

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Was going to get a Sony. Then I saw their update roadmap... 2 years of major updates and another one for security patches, that was it. Noped out because of that. I'd like a headphone jack and an sd card slot, but I'd like even more to keep such an expensive device for more than three years.

Also, their phones are too big, but that's an issue for every single manufacturer.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That is a real concern & it seems they are moving to 4 years of updates as well as not rolling out a new phone every year, but given that LineageOS supports the phones, even if I am not getting firmeware updates, I am willing to take that risk since I get more IO.

The Xperia 5 is a skinny 6.1" & many consider it to be a small phone option in 2024.

[–] Asetru@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago

In the end, I got an S23 which receives (presumably) four years of major revision support plus another two years of security patches, which is still much more than Sony is willing to promise.

I had an Xperia Z, which I was supposed to be able to patch with custom roms. Too bad that while that generally worked, Sony locked the camera to its own software which then fell back to a much inferior mode, meaning you had to decide between updates or shitty pictures, which was a deal breaker for me and had me update to an S10e back then.

The Xperia 5 is a skinny 6.1" & many consider it to be a small phone option in 2024.

I know. It's still too big. I was this close to switching to apple just for their iPhone mini range, but that got discontinued as well. My S23 is something like 6 or 6.1 as well. It's only usable because Samsung has a better one handed mode than default android or Apple.

[–] LeTak@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True. I also have a XA2 with SailfishOS.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I saw the SailfishOS support last month. I would have picked up a 10 instead of 5 even with the non-flapship specs to have a way ‘out’ of Android in case. It is quite a suprise Sony is their chosen brand over the more popular option (even if they have worse IO)—butt the bigger shame is not extending support to the flagship 1 & 5 😔