iphone. They're solid and they get updates forever so there is no rush to upgrade. I don't miss Android and not getting updates 6 months after I buy the phone.
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I found the sweet spot on the Samsung A34. It has the things I want, but it isn't flagship expensive and it has guaranteed 4 years of updates plus another year of support.
Samsung Galaxy Z fold 4. I got it for a good price and just wanted to see what folding phones were like. It's pretty awesome. Just hope the durability holds up for a few years.
I did see a couple of surprisingly cheap foldables on ebay, but I'm still somewhat wary of foldables and I ended up finding a fairphone 4 for a pretty good price
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Murena 1, its the phone made by e os
I have a pixel 6 pro, but I wouldn't recommend it. You'd think Google is capable of providing a perfect Android experience, but my old Note 9 was way less buggy.
I've had lots of issues with 3rd party launchers (nova), I can't even use the USBC with a dongle and second screen (my old Note could do this without issues). Also this is my first phone without headphone jack and SD slot, both I really miss. Just in general the software (especially in the beginning) felt really buggy with small glitches etc.
I don't think I'll ever go pixel again.
The pixel six was not good. I use a pixel 7a and it solved a lot of the issues the 6 had. Also the pixel 8 is doing good in reviews.
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Fairphone 5 with iodéOS. Its perfect for me
I love the idea of fairphones but from what I've gathered they're kinda crap for the price if you don't count the moral benefits aren't they?
Do they do video over USB C/thunderbolt? Am quite interested in having a device I can plug in and use as a desktop in a pinch
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I am still using Redmi note 5 pro and it's working great!
The cheapest piece of shit Samsung make because I break phones. I work outdoors in all weathers and I use my phone alot. I go through on average one a year and I dont want a broken or lost phone to ruin my month.
I can get behind that, that's kind of the direction I'm leaning in too.
I tend to go the other way with that and buy the tougher phones so they last me a bit longer though, I'd rather pay 600 every 3 years and have a somewhat nicer phone than 200 every 1 year and have to put up with a crappy one
I had two Caterpillar CATphones before. It was awesome. One of them had an infra red camera and was waterproof down to 5 meters.
They were a bit on the slow side, but they sure could take abuse
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"Alot" doesn't exist, it's always "a lot". Above meme depicts an imaginary animal, the alot, in order to make the difference clearer.
Alot
I get that, but I didn't use a lot or alot in my comment. Did you reply to the wrong person?
I did! Sorry!
To the people who treat that as a hard and fast rule, I wonder what opinion they hold of the word "another."
I guess they would think that an other and another have different meanings, like car pet and carpet
Car pet… is this petting a car or having a car as a pet. :)
Edit: or petting someone with a car
Or a pet for the car. The precision of the English language, ladies and gentlemen.
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I tried that once, but that one got lost and I was like "Yep, cheap shit it is"
Honestly the worst samsung A series shits from great heights on cheap off brand phones. They do pretty much everything I want except the whole tap to pay thing.
Unfortunately tap and pay is the one feature keeping me from using custom roms/rooting/linux. Very much like having multiple options incase my card doesn't work, forgotten my wallet etc
Get a Samsung S series FE (or Fan edition). They are usually cheaper versions of the flag ships with the same features but slightly lower specs.
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rn using a Samsung Galaxy A32, planning to switch to a pixel 7a eventually
Poco X3 Pro.
It was very cheap (€188) with a powerful SoC. Though it does come with a caveat: reliability. I knew about this issue since I decided to buy it. It already had motherboard replaced in-warranty not once, but twice. But since I knew about this, I had backups already, so I lost just moderate amount of data. The biggest one was Termux stuff which I forgot to backup since I explicitly excluded the Android folder. Then all the apps, since there's no way to back it up without root.
I mean, the software is also quite buggy, but oh well, I can work around it.
Hardware wise, the mentioned SoC (Snapdragon 860), FM radio, headphone jack, IR blaster, 120Hz IPS LCD (I do not want *LED due to permanent burn-ins.), 5200mAh battery, easy to open (the back cover is soft plastic, so you can just rip it off without breaking anything, then glue it back).
Though now I am also looking at the idea of PinePhone.
Next time I'll probably take something with MediaTek SoC instead, due to MTK engineer mode (*#*#3646633#*#*) due to changes by my carrier. Specifically, I am looking at the band-lock feature.
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Samsung Galaxy XCover 6 Pro
It was an easy choice as it's the only modern devide with removable battery and a headphone jack. I would've gotten Fairphone but no headphone jack - no buy.
Personally I've only really stuck with wireless headphones anyway since before they removed the jack so doesn't bother me that much
How often do you find yourself needing to charge it?
My average screen on time is around 1 to 2 hours a day so I usually have well over 50% left when I plug it to a charger at night.
iPhone 8, I have been surprised by how long it has lasted so far. Still gets security updates every now and then.
Next phone is probably going to be a fairphone.
Fair, I've heard iphones and especially ipads are actually decent.
I don't think at least on a phone I could deal with iOS though seems a little backwards and restricted