Depends. If you use heavily customized android ROMs with aggressive battery saving measures like colorOS, hyperOS/miui, etc. Things may be a tad rough.
By midrange I meant Something more like A35/A55/M55, etc. So upper midrange hardware. Moto doesn’t include a jack or even expandable storage on edge 40 Neo, edge 40, edge 50 pro.
As for Chinese phones the most prominent even Xiaomi has stopped including them in some of their phones. Not that I want to buy them. My software experience has not been great with Chinese OEMs.
So, if I want good software(Oneui, NothingOS, Moto HelloUI, etc) support and quality my choices are slim to zero.
I have made my peace with wireless unfortunately I don’t want to do the same with micro sdcard. But, even that’s fading in so many phones…
The camera should be better. But, what midrange smartphones still provide a headphone Jack? I have all but seen it disappear alongside fading sdcard support.
Android will continue to support RISC-V. Due to the rapid rate of iteration, we are not ready to provide a single supported image for all vendors. This particular series of patches removes RISC-V support from the Android Generic Kernel Image (GKI).
Basically, they still support it. But, won’t provide a GKI. So, vendors will need to do more work if they intend to run android on a RISC-v CPU.
But, it is efficient. If I download 2 or 3 large apps they get downloaded simultaneously and the lowest size app gets installed 1st. Meanwhile, previously it had to wait until one app was downloaded then wait to install them one by one. Which would be as much as 3 times slow.