alt Hacker NewsI was planning to make my next phone a Moto G Stylus. If they do a Graphene one, it'll be certain.
My partner got the Moto G Stylus 2025 after we swore off Samsung last year. I've been very impressed. Other then the camera software, it's a very capable phone, and the headphone port and SD card slot are great. There's 90 gigabytes of lossless music on an SD card now. The camera software sucks, but thanks to a tip I think I heard here on HN, I installed a gcam (Google pixel camera) port and that's great.
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How good is the microphone quality on it? I had a horrible experience with their Moto Edge Pro which had one of the worst mics I ever experienced. Very high noise floor plus aggressive filtering. Not something you expect in a flagship phone. I exchanged it twice thinking there was something wrong with the device but it was not the case, others were complaining about it and other Edge models as well.
It was a shame, as the rest of the phone hardware was very good for the price - after installing gcam on it as you did.
> My partner got the Moto G Stylus 2025 after we swore off Samsung last year.
I've been wanting to get away from Samsung for years, but keep coming back because of the s-pen. I've yet to find another manufacturer that makes a decent phone with a proper stylus. As in, a stylus which the device recognises as being something different to your finger. Most styluses use the same technology as the cheap ones you can buy on Amazon and use on any phone: all they do is imitate the finger. As far as I know, the Moto stylus phones are like that, right? That makes them very awkward to use for many things e.g.:
S-pen -> scroll down a PDF with my finger -> highlight with the pen
Regular stylus -> scroll down a PDF with my finger -> select highlight option in app -> highlight with stylus, being very careful not to touch the screen anywhere with my finger -> select browse option in app
With the latter, you have to specifically tell the app every time you are switching to/from finger and stylus. With the former, the app knows the difference.
If you give me a high end phone with a proper stylus and GrapheneOS, I'd probably never look back.