Frankly, this is a decent, but not amazing, price for this hardware. All things considered, I'm glad I picked up an Edge Plus 2022 (with the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1... not the new non-Plus model with the Mediatek Dimensity), when Woot had it half-price for $499.99 in August.

Perhaps they shouldn't have removed parts of what made the 4 classic so good. There's literally no reason to upgrade unless you have one multiple models older.

I just upgraded to the S20 FE a couple months ago. Had no idea it was considered 'outdated'. My only complaint about it, is that it is apparently trying to hard to be an iPhone. It doesn't have the biometric sensors and fingerprint on back as my previous model. Nor does it have a headphone jack. Using the fingerprints to unlock and/or face recognition, I often end up having to enter password instead because it sometimes doesn't recognize them. I even saved three different fingerprints lol. Never had that problem with my previous phone. And I have no desire to get bluetooth headphones.

I'm not sure how Soundcore does it but they handle multi-point connectivity extremely well, way better than Bose, Sony, Samsung, Apple, etc. I've got tons of earbuds but the Soundcore Liberty 3 Pro are my go to at home to use with both my phone and windows laptop. Bose, however, really really impressed me with the QuietComfort Buds II and they're my new go to for the gym. I was really NOT expecting this at all (i've ended up REALLY hating several Bose products because of extremely buggy firmware) but I think the Airpods Pro 2 are going back and I'll keep the Bose ones, the QC II has many cons for daily use like huge case, no wireless charging and master-slave architecture but just for the gym or doing work outside with noisy machines, when you put both in, the fit and stability, the ANC and sound are unreal like nothing I've had before! For the first time I don't hear the crappy songs playing from the gym's speakers in the background while benching.

Yay! It has one more camera. Should be enough of a differentiating factor. Android users will switch in droves.

Great job on reporting the bugs that some users are currently experiencing with the new iPhones 14 Series, I always see a lot of whinning on articles reporting bugs of phones made by other manufacturers. They are always crying how their favorite brand is "accused" but "iPhone issues are never reported", so they just have selective attention lol.