A Snapdragon Elite phone with giant 7000 mAh Silicon Carbon battery, 100 W charging, 144 Hz refresh rate and even a 3.5 mm jack. All of it is let down by the fact that it’s promised only one major OS upgrade.
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Uggh, glass back too. Why?
At least someone will probably build a Lineage image for it, but glass back?
Nah too expensive
I don’t understand the X chip being visible. Is it just esthetics?
What does the red button-looking circle do?
You mean the circle below the cameras? That is not a button, this phone has an active cooling system, yes you heard it right. The “button looking” thing is the fan’s protective grill, and the blue “ring” is the built-in RGB lights inside shinning through the gap for air to flow through. There is another set of openings on the side of the phone that gives another opening for air to flow through.
Because of active cooling this phone has no IP rating at all. Based on benchmarks and reviews I’ve seen so far they managed to allow the GPU to have nearly no thermal throttling, with the active cooling system. However, disappointingly, it does throttle the CPU a LOT still.
Holy crap that’s awesome
Yeah it’s certainly interesting that at least one vendor is trying to push for such a specific extreme niche. You do have to give up pretty much everything else for it, only 1 year software support, on buggy software made by a very small and not-resourceful company with poor software quality and support track record, no SD card slot, no IP rating, and no unlockable bootloader even so no root and not custom ROM after they end the official software support, etc.
But yes, looks like if the only thing you need is the best of the best sustained performance, this one is the best choice among all phones with this SoC.
Permalocked bootloader is a hard pass for me. If I buy a device, that device is mine. If I want to install something on it, I will. If they prevent me from doing that, I will simply not buy the device.
Cool concept. Very, very poorly implemented.
Exactly
I may buy one depending on how Winlator development goes. The recent hype has been people getting Steam installed and installing games directly from Steam. Worse performance than doing a per game container and customizing but that’s a hassle
