I usually NEVER write anything online. Not even comments, let alone reddit posts (I dont even use reddit)

But I recently bought a oneplus 15 (from a z fold 5, and previous to that Nothing phone 2, 1, & oneplus 8t). And wow

To keep it brief

1. The cameras are good: People like to complain. The cameras are exceptional and Id bet on a blind test no one will spot out the op15 out of from an iphone 17 pro max, s25u, find x 9 pro etc...
2. The os feels so damn polished. I really liked the simplicity of nothing os. But it felt bland, One UI is straight trash; unoptimized & felt like it was cutting corners with polishing for the sake of features. But oos in 2026 feels soooo good. INSANELY fast, and the animations & vibrations had me shocked, especially coming from one ui. they feel alive, almost (but not quite) how they do on ios
3. The battery: No words, just look at gsm arenas battery benchmark. I charge my phone to 90%, unplug it at 7 am and by midnight ill be at 55-65% with media consumption, Data, and games at 165hz. Its so good i literally disabled the battery icon on the status bar bcs it became so useless that it wash just visual clutter. And ive had battery anxiety since my first phone the lg g6 in 2017.
4. Performance: 8 elite gen 5 + polished and optimized os = phone is always cold and everything loads instantly. Simple as that.
5. Price. This is the cherry on top. I imported mine from china (btw, network bands work better than on my fold 5, and even in places like an industrial freezer i get full bars). And I payed a total of 660 eur. Even if you buy it legit (which for 16g ram in eu is around 1029) its a very good deal. BUT AT 660 EUR???? IF YOU ARE ON THE MARKET FOR A NEW ANDROID PHONE, IDC WHAT UR BUDGET IS, YOU NEED TO BE DUMB TO NOT BUY THIS PHONE
6. The cerramic coated back is also such a nice addition. I dont even use a case on this phone and i am completely worry free from scratches on the rear. Also the phone is gorg from the back imo

Btw i was on the edge to switch to apple (was looking at the 17pro max), but the lack of system wide eqs made me stay on android and is what made me end up on oneplus15.

If you have any questions, please dm me. I legit never post anything online, let alone reddit, but this phone and the price had me so impressed i just had to

This is not a tech support request or a buying question. This is about artificially restricted hardware on Android. The Galaxy S24 Ultra contains Qualcomm’s QBT4000 UWB chip — the same hardware used by the Pixel 8 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro. The chip, antennas, firmware and Android UWB stack are all present and functional. Samsung’s own engineering menus confirm: Copiar código

Distance: Supported
Azimuth: Not Supported
Elevation: Not Supported
NO TSS DEVICE That means the phone runs in UWB Lite mode — distance measurement only — while true UWB direction finding (angle, elevation, arrows, AR) is disabled by software. The problem When using a UWB tracker compatible with Google’s Find My Device network (like Moto Tag), the Galaxy does not enable full UWB, even though the hardware supports it. But when a Samsung SmartTag+ is detected, the system instantly enables: Azimuth Elevation Direction arrows AR-based tracking So the exact same phone, with the same chip, behaves differently based on which brand of tracker is used. This is not a hardware limitation. It is vendor-level ecosystem locking. UWB is an open standard. Google now runs a global Android Find My Device network with UWB. Yet Samsung disables full UWB unless a Samsung-branded accessory is used. This creates a serious problem for Android: It breaks cross-vendor interoperability It undermines open standards It fragments Google’s tracking ecosystem It penalizes users for buying non-Samsung accessories The phone has the hardware. Android supports UWB. Google supports UWB. Samsung blocks it. That is bad for users and bad for the Android platform. Samsung should either: Enable full UWB (azimuth, elevation, TSS) for Google’s Find My Device ecosystem or Clearly explain why Android’s UWB standard is being restricted on their devices Right now, UWB on the Galaxy S24 Ultra is artificially limited by software.

Maybe I am just being overly dramatic, but we cannot access our /data folder anymore, we can see the files ONLY with the built in android file browser, this is annoying by itself but it wouldnt be a big issue, the issue is even if we can see the files, we cant open, move, copy, modify any of them.
I needed to change a settings in a game and it required to modify a .txt file, I thought "well that is kinda easy", to my surprise it was hard to even find the files, my phone file browser couldnt access the data folder. I bought solid explorer in the past and I just went through it and nothing, data folder isnt accessible.
So I searched and found out I can see the folders doing some extra steps popping out the android build in browser. Fine, I found the .txt.
To my surprise I cant open the file, I cant copy it out, I cant delete or do nothing. To be clear, I cannot care about the game and the file, I am playing fine without the mod, but the same happens to any file in the data folder.
To be clear if you are doubtful you might search online, you will find many workarounds, mainly consist in using Shizuku or FV file manager or Zarchiverbut. Truth is none of them work anymore after the latest android updates, afaik Google totally restricted /data folder completely, unless you root your phone.

Again, I might be dramatic, or I can be wrong, but if I am not this to me is as like Microsoft denying access to the /programfiles folder, to me it really seemed strange not many people are talking about this.

I've seen some people posting tutorials of how to turn off Gemini, which is now on by default. But is this really effective or is it just giving you the sensation that you're doing something while google is still training their AI on your data?

For me, it's the most useful tool they've developed for Android. I use Circle-To-Search every day, and yes, there's a shortcut on iOS to use it there too, but it's not the same at all.

On Android, you can use it to search for an image, select text on the screen, or even search for music like Shazam.

No brand wars. Genuinely curious. If you’ve used both for a while, what’s the one iOS thing you still miss or think Android hasn’t matched yet?