Even though I really want to support them, I don’t think I could get used to it. I really hate large phones, I tried to get used to them but eventually I always switched back. That is the dealbreaker for me, but I also don’t like that it has a slower processor, worse cameras, and worse battery life than my 3 year old phone.

I guess you’re right.

I admit I haven’t thought about storage space on my phone for many years now, but that’s just my personal experience.

That’s fine. While it still takes space, it does not run in the background or at all. You can literally disable everything and softbrick the phone.

You can uninstall everything with this easily: https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater

But can you completely copy the UX of a shield pro with raspberry pi?

I mean, I can grab the TV’s remote, or the shields remote, and whichever I turn on, both of them turn on. It also wakes up from sleep faster than the TV turns on. I can use the TV’s remote to control the shield. Basically it works completely transparently.

It also makes it work really nice with android phones. I can cast spotify, youtube, google photos, or the screen onto the TV, and it works better than the TV’s cast with the apps.

I used Plex and while it worked nice for most of the time, I got fed up with it trying to steer me away from local streaming, and having a hard time finding my way back to it in the therrible UI. I set up Jellyfin and couldn’t be happier, HDR, Dolby Vision, 4K streaming just works perfectly.

The UI is much faster than a flagship LG TV too…

What I’m asking is… is it possible to set up an RPi to work this seamlessly and user friendly? With apps like netflix, hbo max, jellyfin, etc, with a remote and nice and easy UI so anyone can use it on their first try?

After a couple of free weekends, I was on the verge of buying it but then I saw that they separated squadron 42…