Now before anybody starts about S24 having being a great phone and amazing performance, …
I own the exynos chip version ( I live in the EU ) and the heating issues and battery draw is disqusting. I have had it for a little over a year and the battery will go from 78% at 1pm when starting afternoon shift to 24% at 10pm after finishing my shift.
It used to last 2-3 days with my usage, nowdays it can’t go over half a day with me not touching it ( I have syncthing running and tasker to disable/enable syncthing depending on conditions. And home assistant to look up automations that I have configured to use the least amount of sensors as possible ).
All I need in a phone is good battery life ( atleast a day with syncthing/tasker and home assistant running in the background ), smaller sized screen with an oled/amoled display ( I tend to read manga and webtoons on my phone ) and possibly a snapdragon chip for occasional pc game emulation ( indie games ) using fex/gamenative.
EDIT: The main problem I have with the phone isn’t the battery life, it’s the overheating issues that made the battery life to degrade rapidly that I have the issue with.
Chinese phones should generall check your boxes, they have giant batteries most of the time. Smaller screen might be difficult though.
Yea, most chinese phones would. Also what I mean by “smaller screen” is something around the size of the s24 so 6-7 inches.