{"id":116,"date":"2025-02-24T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/?p=116"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T16:21:36","slug":"samsung-m51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/2025\/02\/24\/samsung-m51\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung M51"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/m51.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/m51.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/m51-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/m51-768x806.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image credits gizarena.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Samsung M51 was a bit of an unexpected release in the UK. Normally we don&#8217;t get access to the M series, it&#8217;s usually restricted to India and other eastern regions. For some reason this one was officially sold through Samsung UK and I went for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following my new love of big batteries at the time this one had the biggest yet and has still been unmatched since: 7000mAh. It was a battery titan, paired with a Snapdragon 730G it had a 2 to 3 day battery life no matter how you used it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was actually very fond of this, a Samsung without an Exynos chipset is already on to being a winner in my books and paired with a massive battery like this it was a recipe for success. With a high resolution AMOLED panel and 6GB RAM as well it was not simply a budget phone with a big battery, it had specs to match. It&#8217;s only downside was weight, but that&#8217;s unavoidable with a cell that&#8217;s physically bigger than almost every other phone. It weighed 213g. For reference, a little iPhone SE 2020 weighs just 148g. This thing was hefty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I owned this phone for around a year taking me into 2021, around this time I was getting paranoid about tracking and developing an interest in privacy focused software, all while trying to battle an ever spiralling screen time problem. I discovered GrapheneOS and with that this phone went and I replaced it with a Pixel 3a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I won&#8217;t write a whole segment about the Pixel 3a because it turned out GrapheneOS wasn&#8217;t for me. In my eyes it&#8217;s still the highest quality, secure smartphone operating system out there but it comes at a cost of having to make some sacrifices. I&#8217;ll probably write another post at some point about different mobile operating systems so I&#8217;ll save the full details for then but essentially privacy and ultimate security do come at a cost of convenience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Samsung M51 was a bit of an unexpected release in the UK. Normally we don&#8217;t get access to the M series, it&#8217;s usually restricted to India and other eastern regions. For some reason this one was officially sold through Samsung UK and I went for it. Following my new love of big batteries at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myphonehistory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.sm1th.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}