first time in forever apple has a $800 phone (base model 17) thats on par or better than its competitors

stuff that are better (compared to S25, P10, NP3)
+ 120hz LTPO screen with 1hz minimum and 3000 nits WITH anti reflective coating
+ A19
+ 48mp cameras with 24mp binned photos as default & 18mp square front camera
+ 256gb base storage
+ Qi2

stuff thats on par:
+ somewhere between 40-60w charging
+ 8gb of ram

stuff thats worse:
- 3600 mah battery
- no telephoto (only 2x lossless crop of main sensor)
- camera control
- apple intelligence

overall, its probably the best deal from apple this year

happy 5th birthday to neva os

also 18th to me

long overdue update:

i had officially moved to hcmc (heart of vietnam)
been living here for over a month and will do so for 4 year (for studies and university)
never dared to dream of this but it happened so quickly lmao

im very proud of this shot that i took today

i swear this is the last sky pic im posting

airpods pro 2's anc is insane

im late to this but..

Nintendo Switch emulation on iOS, no jailbreak, smooth 60fps on A17 Pro, and full game controller support thanks to iOS 26
(also loading the game directly from an external SSD)