It is a half baked review, IMO. The author says that despite having 45 W charging, the phone takes 75 mins to charge. Samsung really slows down it’s charging speeds post 80%, so testing from 0 to 100 is not a good criterion at all.
Plus, he forgets to mention that Samsung skips on a microSD card for A56 which was present on A55. Though in Samsung’s favor, they are offering 6 OS upgrades and I doubt any other OEM except Google matches it.
I mean, LineageOS offer around 9 years of support, depending on device. You could turn your back on the corps and install a ROM made by and for the people. LineageOS and others are mostly there to support phones for many years after the manufacturer quits. Reference: 2011 phone with 2020 software and Google security updates
Want to but can’t install it. It is too hard.
I’m genuinely curious: what about it is “too hard”?
But in the vast seas of phones, Lineage OS still supports a very small subset. Major players like Google or Samsung are covered but a LOT are skipped.
If one’s phone supports Lineage OS, well and good but it’s not a fix all
Most people who use and support custom roms make sure the phone they’re buying is supported before hitting the checkout button.
If you have the technical-know-how and the patience, you can install LineageOS on unsupported devices. It might be unstable but, again, if you know what you are doing, you can get around many of the issues.
Make sure the cell provider hasn’t banned the model. AT&T banned a bunch of perfectly good unlockable international phones and kept the locked local ones not supporting lineage. They still work of course, just can’t make calls.
Lineage tends to work mostly on older phones.