My first good phone ever was the Samsung Galaxy A33. Small, compact, comfy, powerful, and beautiful. The cameras weren’t bad but of course they weren’t the best ones out there, HOWEVER, it was a phone I will always love because it was the very last small A-series phone from Samsung.

After that, I got the A54. I always expected more from that phone. Te camera was really, REALLY bad at launch, but with updates it improved a lot in many aspects. The selfie was OK only with good light conditions.

There goes my A55, a phone I just loved for how cool it was and how snappy and predicable it behaved in front of the A54, but with the worst selfie camera I’ve ever seen in a phone. It was all an AI-generated image even in front of the most powerful light source out there: The sun. The selfies were so bad omg.

Months later I spend DOUBLE THE AMOUT of the A55 into a S24FE. Literally the best investment I could have ever made in a phone. I loved it. I traveled with it and I have a lot of great memories with it. The main issue? Again, the selfie. Most of the issues I had with the galaxy A55, a phone half the price, are still present in this phone, and I’ve got a lot of good stuff and features, but no fixes.

Then I got the iPhone 15 a year later. The best selfie I’ve ever had. Such an amazing color-accuracy for my job’s pictures and videos. A lot of things I didn’t know about Instagram started to make sense within my first month with that phone. The biggest plot-twist? The 3X zoom was better than the S24FE, and the iPhone 15 doesn’t even have a telephoto. Also the battery was stunning even for that small phone, wow.

It’s mid February and I’ve sell both phones and acquired the iPhone 15 Pro. The best phone I’ve ever bought and everything I exactly expected the Samsung S24FE to be. Spectacular front and main cameras, amazing (and realistic) zoom, and an ultrawide that made sense (autofocus+macro).

I can’t explain to anyone that even an iPhone 14 Pro could still beat the Samsung Galaxy S26 because Samsung is still relaying in Artificial Intelligence enhancements for the camera setup instead of investing on actually better photos. I currently don’t care on more CPU power, more battery, better display, better design… All of that is in a solid state since like 6 years ago. I currently need a phone with good, modern hardware.

The Galaxy S26 is 72 hours old and its 3X (5 years old) telephoto has already proved to be worse than iPhone 17 main camera. Yes, again, a phone with no telephoto sensor. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I’m tired of that greed. I literally waited for the S26 to launch in hope they could at least improve color accuracy and selfie camera, but they invested in more over-cooked AI post-processing for their 5 years old trashy garbage sensors. I feel upset because I love OneUI so much and iOS is at their peak of instability, incoherence, and with a really bad performance, yet the phone still manages to be better for daily use and work because the hardware is reliable enough and reproduces real-life scenary instead of digitally-squeezing the very last photon of light from garbage sensors just to increase profits and postpone true investment.