what is your budget?

you can record without consent if you want. but you can be sued and pay damages if the recording goes in public/you share it with other people etc in some countries is ilegal to record without consent.

you could replace your battery every 6 months but make sure you get genuine one (from official service, no clue if they still sell for this model) not some shady chinese aftermarket option

you should know if you are recorded. its a good thing.

so the call recording stays on the device yet they added a tos for it?

what trick is this? could someone link this tos?
this is just a response to apple offering this function on iphones.

for ages google blocked call recording and since apple started implementing it they turned it on now? lol.

the listed alternatives wont give much performance boost.
skip and wait the newer phones with bigger batteries 7000mah+ and with better new gen soc/cpu/gpu.

software too i unboxed a new pixel, started to set it up and all of a sudden, a lot of system apps started to crash. returned it next hour.

these days all website run on javascript and budget devices have poor cpu performance which translate in slow loading of web pages.

not to mention the telephone part is crap too, junk microphone, junk ear speaker, weak signal etc.

just for phone calls better i’d get an old nokia dumbphone

i would replace the battery and put lineageos on it.
the new devices dont give that much performance and the prices on those are not worth it.