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OLED Devices

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I've accumulated a few.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra

My main device, I use this for most of my coding work and it’s gorgeous for media consumption.

I run Termux X11 with proot-distro allowing me to use a relatively complete Linux (Ubuntu 20.04), including full desktop (aarch64) versions of Firefox and Chromium.

If I need more power, or to access a Windows VM, I use this same device via AVNC to VNC into my small form factor PC.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S4

I daily drove this for a couple of years as my main device. Although the screen is only 10.5" it’s a very capable device and can do pretty much everything the S8 Ultra can, just smaller and a bit slower (I find it to be quite usable).

Samsung Galaxy Note 3

This is like the baby version of the above 2 devices, I use it without a SIM as a mini tablet.

Again, it can pretty much do the same things that they can, only smaller and noticeably slower. It’s a 10 year old device at time of writing (was released in September 2013). It was a flagship device and actually holds its own quite well despite its age. It’s still perfectly usable.

I’ve even used it for (small) paid jobs a couple of times when I first started to live off solar and was adjusting to the low power situation. I attached it to an arm to hold it up close to my eyes, and with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

BlackBerry Q10

I stopped using my Note 3 as a phone and ‘downgraded’ to this, to use as a dumb-ish phone. It has good call quality and reception and a hardware QWERTY keyboard which I wanted for texting. It’s small and well-built.