Put Graphene OS on it.

In what way? Battery life?

time for cleansing? I've got a P7pro on Graphene OS. Quite snappy

Definitely not the only but with the memory heavy apps that I use, it's a huge factor.

I think I can probably get to the 12(used) before I decide to upgrade my 9. I'll pick one up once Graphene is released on it.

7a GOS. A bit small, but works fine.

Apps will only keep getting ram hungry for little while due to inertia. But that era is over. Programmers got away with demanding more ram because ram was cheap. Each new device doubled or tripled their ram capacity every year. That era is over for good. Even if the LLMs bubble pops today, prices won't go down for the next decade at least. With these new devices—consoles, phones, computers—keeping or even reducing ram capacity from previous generations, developers have no choice but to hold back their ram race.

Add: eventually the developers will have to optimize or there will be no market capable of running the software.

Interesting. I wouldn't have expected commercial AI assistants to compute a lot of stuff on device. For speed / response time reasons, and battery drain. Other than maybe speech recognition... Guess I'm not up to date anymore. I haven't tried Gemini. Most fancy stuff I use is speech recognition and Google Lens, respectively "Offline Translator" to translate Chinese, Japanese or Korean writing on products in the Asia supermarket. That app is perfectly alright with just the 6GB on my phone. But yeah, generative AI in form of a large language model or an image generator won't fit. I've tried a few other open-source local AI apps and it can't do any of the usable AI models.

6,000,000 µAh

We really need to normalize using watt hours

watt-hours*

For some reason we use watt-hours for laptops but haven't managed to figure out how to do the same for "phones".

Yup 9 years old and still working though, banking apps still work but a number of apps I used to occasionally use are no longer working, but nothing critical.