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Every handset we have carried as a daily driver for at least a fortnight — battery figures from real days, camera samples shot side by side, and the software support promises held against what the manufacturer actually ships.
What changed Dark mode stopped being an accessibility preference and became the default on most phones and a great many apps. The battery argument cam...
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The shift Satellite messaging went from one flagship in one market to something most new phones carry, and from emergency SOS alone to ordinary text m...
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The shift The NPU moved from a marketing bullet on a slide to something the operating system leans on constantly — keyboard prediction, call screening...
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The shift Phones sold with an eSIM and no tray went from one model in one market to the normal arrangement across most of a flagship line-up. The card...
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What changed Phone storage stopped growing at the bottom of the range while everything that consumes it carried on growing: applications ship more cod...
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The shift Silicon-carbon batteries hold appreciably more energy per millilitre than the graphite cells they replace, which is why capacities jumped wi...
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What changed Update commitments stretched to five, six and seven years, which means how much slower a phone gets over that time stopped being an acade...
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The shift Background data stopped being a trickle. Applications now sync, prefetch, report and refresh on schedules of their own, and the operating sy...
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What actually changed Charging to 80 per cent went from an enthusiast trick to a switch in the settings app, and in some cases the default. The advice...
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What actually changed Magnetic alignment turned wireless charging from a novelty into something people use nightly, and the advertised figures climbed...
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What changed Phone signal arguments have not changed in fifteen years, but the phones have: antenna bands now run around the frame where your hand goe...
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What changed Display brightness figures climbed past 2,000 and then past 3,000 nits, while the brightness anybody experiences moved much less. The gap...
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What changed Update promises went from two years to seven inside a single generation. The promise is easy to make and takes most of a decade to falsif...
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What changed Screen repair changed on paper: manufacturer parts programmes exist now, official repair manuals are published, and a score out of ten is...
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Google has stopped chasing spec-sheet wins and doubled down on the thing it has always been best at. Two weeks in, that looks like the right call. A b...
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