You can still get a cover, and still have the advantages of better drop resistance and lower weight and being slimmer than a glass back with cover.
I suppose the wear resistance is slightly better than your average cover. Mine looks OK IMO, but it doesn’t look new anymore. I usually put my phone on surfaces like tables or whatever convenient when I sit down, and the edges where the back curves are clearly a bit matte, and there are a few scratches from the incidents. But there is no discoloration or cracks or anything that looks broken or is an eyesore.

I had the Motorola G9 power for 3 years, and used it without cover of any kind for all that time. And yes you can see some wear of 3 years of use on the back, it has also licked the asphalt a couple of times, but it still looks fine, and nothing ever broke.
1 slip out of my pocket while sitting on the terace with my 4 times as expensive Xiaomi 13T pro, and the back was broken.
So yes the Motorola synthetic back is definitely more durable than glass.
To have the cool look and feel, they could add a thin replaceable back cover like we used to have on almost all phones a few years ago.

That’s what mostly ended metal (aluminium) backs, there are zero problems with synthetics in that regard. So no need for glass.
OnePlus have stupidly made the Nord 4 with aluminium back, despite they claim it was hell to get it to work.
A completely worthless faux premium feature IMO. It ads cost and has no benefits. Except being slightly less bad than glass.

I agree, but reviewers and consumers are falling for it, so I’m just trying to point out how utterly stupid it is. So hopefully at some point no reviewer will praise the “luxury” feel of glass, and consumers will stop falling for it.

The 13T did have a vegan leather option, but that’s not much better, and is also made to have a “luxury feel” but low durability. That’s just vulnerable to wear instead. I did consider the leather option, and then give it some sort of coating, but I decided against it, because I would probably just mess it up. That is why I include “durable” as a required feature of the synthetic material.

I curse reviewers for failing to see the advantages when the Galaxy S2 came out with a synthetic back, that was superior in every way to the glass back of the iPhone. But many reviewers complained that it felt cheap, completely forgetting to mention it was way more drop proof, and it reduced the weight significantly. They friggin complained that the lower weight also felt cheap!!!

Reviewers are sometimes morons, that should be kicked on the shin for their stupidity. 😋

All around a nice insanely fast phone. But it sucks it can’t do macro with the tele lens anymore, and it’s a bit expensive.
The camera is really good, but I don’t understand why it splashes the white areas so much, my 13T Pro does the same?

And my Pet peeve: Get rid of the stupid glass back and replace it with a quality durable synthetic. It’s both lighter and thinner and it’s way more durable than glass.
The glass is fragile, so you need a glove for it, so most people never get that “quality” feel anyway, if you don’t have a glove on it, glass is also insanely slippery and will try to escape your pocket first chance it gets.
1 drop on a hard surface even from just ½ a meter can break the glass back.

Mobian of course she says.
( She uses Debian on the computer )

Sorry silly me, a Pinephone.

My wife has one, it’s been a long time since she have talked about it though.
She used to mention when improvements were made.

Edit: Pinephone.

Do you mean misplaced take?
Sorry couldn’t help myself. 😋

I personally would buy anything from them at the moment.

You would?

Well there needs to be a working general boot-loader for one. Then the hardware needs to have drivers that work.

Considering it’s called “Note” I find it curious they don’t mention anything about the screen.
But this SOC should be very good from what I’ve heard, and I love they’ve finally increased the battery to 6000mah and even added 200 extra.
IMO 6000mah should have been standard for bigger phones already years ago. It was a major feature for me on my old Moto Power G9 that came out 4 years ago.
It’s been very disappointing to have to go down to 5000mah on phones at more than twice the price, because 6000mah simply wasn’t available as an option. It’s laughable IMO that phones advertised as great for gaming are sold with only 5000mah batteries.

Ofcourse the cops need to respond

Yes, but then there’s the matter of HOW they respond.

Yes, but I still don’t believe an anonymous caller should have this kind of weight. If it’s not anonymous however it should.
But then there should also be a possibility of the caller facing charges on an obviously false accusation.
So the caller needs to be verified before going to extremes.

Maybe this was done properly, but I was thrown off by the handcuff bit, here it’s not normal to handcuff somebody who cooperates.

OK, here it’s the other way around, you don’t normally handcuff somebody unless they are arrested.

If they enter his home, and there is no evidence of a crime, then what is the basis for the arrest?
One thing is to investigate the truth of a call, another is to act on it as if it’s verbatim truth.

How is “someone called” enough evidence to enter peoples homes and arrest them?
These officers should lose their job,

This may get a lot worse for every non Chinese phone maker, as they get access to cheap subsidized chips from SMIC that are extremely competitive for low end phones.

will feature a 5G modem developed by Unisoc.

Interesting, these are difficult to make, Intel couldn’t make it work well enough, and had to abandon it.
I’d be careful buying this until tests show they are actually any good.

PS:
Intel tried to make a 5G modem without the Qualcomm patents, if Unisoc works with those, it will probably be OK.