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im looking at replacing my old phone, a samsung galaxy j3 eclipse. it has not aged well since 2017 and is too slow to operate now. im thinking of going for the motorola one 5g ace since i can get it for about 330 dollars and it might last me longer. i wanna know if there are other similarly priced phones out there that are about equal or better than this phone for a similar price
 
There's a few phones like this but of course only from small companies and they cost more for less powerful hardware.
If they made the Fairphone but with the specs of a flagship like the S21, it would be perfect tbh. I'd gladly buy it even if it costed as much as a standard flagship since at least there's the longevity in the exchangeable battery and screen.
 
im looking at replacing my old phone, a samsung galaxy j3 eclipse. it has not aged well since 2017 and is too slow to operate now. im thinking of going for the motorola one 5g ace since i can get it for about 330 dollars and it might last me longer. i wanna know if there are other similarly priced phones out there that are about equal or better than this phone for a similar price
If you want a phone with a big battery and mostly stock android motorola is your best bet right now unless you want a dirt cheap nokia. Everyone else has given up on the midrange market and either makes cheap shit or $1000 flagships.
If they made the Fairphone but with the specs of a flagship like the S21, it would be perfect tbh. I'd gladly buy it even if it costed as much as a standard flagship since at least there's the longevity in the exchangeable battery and screen.
I've said before that I refuse to pay more then $350 for a phone, unless someone made a phone with flagship specs (snapdragon 888/8GB RAM), stock android with 5+ years of community support, and a replaceable battery with a 10,000+ zerolemon Esq cell option, I'd pay $1000 for it easily.
 
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I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy S21 for $400 from Best Buy, pretty good deal considering they're normally $700. It's definitely better than the LG Stylo 6 I bought in January that's already glitching after less than a year. I said fuck it and paid extra for the black tie warranty so if it breaks in the next two years, I'll get a new phone for free or upgraded to the next S series phone if they stop producing them.
 
im looking at replacing my old phone, a samsung galaxy j3 eclipse. it has not aged well since 2017 and is too slow to operate now. im thinking of going for the motorola one 5g ace since i can get it for about 330 dollars and it might last me longer. i wanna know if there are other similarly priced phones out there that are about equal or better than this phone for a similar price
i got the 5g ace

granted, its the gimped version with less storage and ram, but its still far better than the phone i was using before
 
I can't make a recommendation on what TO get, but I can recommend what NOT TO get.

Don't get any of the Motorola Edges series. It's the most powerful phone I've owned and comes with every feature imaginable, but the screen alone is such a massive fucking hassle that I've had to resist the urge to smash it multiple times.

The "edges" have no real practical use, even in games. It's far more detrimental because often a minute part of your hand or jacket will be touching an edge, registering as a "click", making any other clicks not register, or misclick entirely. This is a massive pain when having the phone pocketed with something like YouTube going where you can't lock your screen. If you have anything else in your pocket, the material does not matter, this piece of shit will register clicks from it. While this sounds like minor inconvenience overall, it's genuinely something that cannot be overstated how detrimental it really is. It's a "you have to use one to understand" kind of thing.

The screen is also HIGHLY susceptible to screen burn, even with the lowest brightness settings. I've had burns set in from as little as 3 hours of OSRS, while also jumping out of the app every several minutes to check forum posts or change music. If you regularly use YouTube on this phone, for some fucking reason, even after the video has fully stopped playing, and no matter what settings you have, the screen will not lock itself with any form of consistency. On rare occasions it will turn off and lock, but it is so rare that if you use YouTube for background noise you have to manually turn off the screen afterwards or get screen burned.

Also, if you turn this phone off to charge it faster?

Haha, fuck you, it forces itself back on the second it's on a charger. That's real fucking heresy right there.


In summation: The Motorola Edge series has all the features, but is functionally as useful as a condom on a cripple.
 
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In summation: The Motorola Edge series has all the features, but is functionally as useful as a condom on a cripple.
Moto make great burner phones, as they usually self destruct at around 15 months old. I've had 3 of them that either broke or became completely unusable at around this point of time. You'd have to be on crack to go any higher than the Moto G line.
If you want a phone with a big battery and mostly stock android motorola is your best bet right now unless you want a dirt cheap nokia. Everyone else has given up on the midrange market and either makes cheap shit or $1000 flagships..
For cheap-ass phones, Nokia are the least bad. The bloat is minimal and they keep updating Android well after most other companies stop providing support. Case in point: the most recent system update for the Nokia 1 was April 2021. Not bad for a phone that was a cheap shitter released over 3 years ago.

The phone is still a cheap shitter, only now a bit slower than when it was new, but I'd sooner have another Nokia than a Moto.
 
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If the Chicoms do a cheap phone, Comrade Xi Jinping can spy on me all day. Faraway handoff authoritarians are preferable to nannying alleged democratic politicians.
It's just western big tech lobby, just like when they wanted to ban TikTok.

It's so obvious, especially right now that Youtube is losing relevance against the chink app.
 
Unihertz kino is back on the menu, boys.


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For privacy, the Pinephone is great if it's not out of stock. You could also get a supported phone and install LineageOS or GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS has more security features, but is only compatible with expensive Google Pixel phones, while LineageOS tries to be compatible with as many phones as possible.
 
For privacy, the Pinephone is great if it's not out of stock. You could also get a supported phone and install LineageOS or GrapheneOS. GrapheneOS has more security features, but is only compatible with expensive Google Pixel phones, while LineageOS tries to be compatible with as many phones as possible.
I experienced a Pinephone first hand this summer.
Imagine how great Pale Moon is as a browser...
that's how Pine is as a phone.

Rando crashes, phone calls don't always go through. Most web pages don't load right, or require you to physically resize the page (b/c it assumes you are a linux PC browser).
Not many apps. Mostly just using bookmarks (90% of 'apps' are actually just fancy hyperlinks)
Still, no snooping, no data leaks, no tracking...

The price of security... >sigh<

(no hate - I want it to get better, but I was kinda disappointed. Even the guy showing it to me had a Samsung as his 'main phone')
 
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