Been on Android since 2011 (SGS2).

Since then I used a lot of android phones. But it were the last few years which ultimately led to my switch to iphone.

I got disappointed by every android phone I’ve used since ~2017.

My primary pain point was battery life.

My last resort before the iphone was the Pixel.

I thought “Nice, finally a good android equivalent to iphone (cleanest android, own SoC)”

But holy cow, what a shitshow the Pixel 6 Pro is (and sadly this trend seems to continue up to the latest Pixel lineup).

Battery life is a bad joke on this thing. No joke, the P6P gets hot by simply being connected to 5G, while sitting on idle. Wtf google, just no.

I recently learned that the Tensor Chip is based on Samsungs Exynos architecture (Samsung produces the tensor, it seems) and the Exynos was already such bullshit, that even Samsung abandoned it recently and started using Snapdragons on all their phones, EU & US models.

In March this year, I had the chance to get a 13PM, and I took it.

And oh boy, what a life this is.

I have never been this satisfied with the overall experience before. There are some minor things I miss / find better on Android (like the back-gesture) but none of these points are worth switching back.

Everything just works. Battery life is out of this world. I was used to “battery anxiety”, but it’s a thing of the past with my 13PM.

Looking forward to future models. I’m not feeling like upgrading rn, the 13 seems to hold up pretty well.

Cheers.