My dad has it and its very good… especially xiaomis software is surprisingly good smooth and fast, i much prefer it to samsungs one UI, u do need to do some tinkering. Tho by disabling ads or as they call it “recommendations” and learning to ignore their cleaners and getapps appstore

Btw might be a naive question but i never realized why cant they just use plastic around the hinge and use glass everywhere else

Raw chip performance? Yeah… but I am kinda talking more about the actual useful features tbh, for eg the camera sensor technology has all but remained the same since iphone 14, (for all brands not just apple) nd neither have they improved the image processing pipeline, the straight out of camera images are still absolutely shit. Thanks for the proRAW tho, i have used my frnds newer iphones and they are the same with that weird pastel hdr-y look, all they r offering is just random AI improvements no one needed

Same with stuff like battery life, now i am not saying its not getting better, but it has definitely not been a focus, oneplus recently came with the silicon carbide tech but the major brands and rlly slow to adapt to that, u can see xiaomi and vivo phones still absolutely in these two areas so its definitely not tech plateauing (1inch sensors, bigger batteries), more accurately there is a weird preference order of AI and unnecessary visual changes