[viktorcode]

HEVC has been supported by mobile phone hardware for years now, both encoding and decoding. And the difference with AV1 is negligible.

[brokenmachine]

Newer phones support AV1 decoding at least.

Personally I'd much rather use an open standard, and the fact it's better than HEVC doesn't hurt either.

[fomine3]

Qualcomm chips still don't support. This is a serious blocker. Side note: Qualcomm is one of the patent holder of HEVC

[clouddrover]

But now coming soon in new Qualcomm chips:

https://www.protocol.com/newsletters/entertainment/av1-open-...