My wife has a 6a. A few things that she has noticed but not deal breakers. After installing a glass screen protector the finger print reader is really hit and miss. I went to enable face unlock but Google doesn’t allow it on the 6a. Custom ROM would solve that, however I don’t know about graphene. Not the best cell reception. Not a huge case selection. At least compared to non (a) versions. Battery life under heavy use is just ok.

Sunbird is more than iMessage isn’t it? I had the beta installed for a little bit and it was messenger, sms, iMessage, and a few others that haven’t used.

You can’t compare results from different versions of the antutu benchmark.

In terms of tablet scores yes. And I never said better but I did say closer. Even at that using kimovil as the source the 8 gen 2 in the Tab s9 ultra is only 1 percent behind the M2 in the iPad pro 6th gen. Which could be the difference between testing environments, thermal management, and straight up just better/worse quality silicon from chip to chip.

As far as the Dimensity 9200, you said soc comparison not tablet.

I mean the mediatek is nearly 460k points off, nearly 35%. That’s a pretty big difference. Is it noticeable by the user in most applications probably not but they aren’t close. The actual newest chips are though https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-list/rating

Definitely not the latest from Mediatek or Qualcomm.

OnePlus built their brand on unlockable bootloader

It literally doesn’t effect anything if you opt out.

I’m going to piggy back on this comment for all the people who don’t want to do the research on Nova and their recent acquisition by Branch. You can opt in or out of usage statistics and all permissions in the app. The new mods on their discord have a FAQ that expresses this also. I have no way to prove otherwise but if all we have is their word then you should take all apps usages disclosures with a grain of salt.

Edit: funny enough I just installed and read the first few paragraphs of Niagra’s privacy policy which says it collects and shares user analytics. To each their own I guess.

Man, I forgot all about notification LEDs. My list is practically identical to yours.