

That’s the thing. Samsung is already quite bad with price/performance ratio against Chinese brands. But Sony is whole another level. If headphone jack & no China were my only requirements, I’d buy some low-end Samsung. But I also want some performance, decent camera with OIS… Sony for the price around 400 € doesn’t even record 60 fps video and also I’m not sure I could tolerate 60 Hz display again. HMD is Chinese, of course.
Current situation is I’ll just use A52s until it dies (I have it over 2 years now, recently got latest Android and battery still generally lasts 2 days of light use and a whole day of geocaching I like to do)… And then I’ll have to probably get a BT headphones with a next phone…
ITT: “I don’t want a Chinese phone and want a decent camera and performance.” “Get the Chinese phone and install this unstable ROM which makes the camera awful and randomly drains battery in a few hours, because ‘Known bugs? You tell me!’.”
Maybe the experience with custom ROMs is better now than 15 to 5 years ago when I did that kind of thing, but I still won’t be wilfully giving the Chinese more money than I have to.