Your current and next phone. - Smartphone general

[Aunt Carol]

Apparently it's top heavy and feels cheaply made (Unihertz phones are usually surprisingly well built). The camera is also bad if you care about that sort of thing. I don't know from experience though.

Aw. Looking into them, I was thinking more about their original Titan, though. Don't need anything slim.

I'm also interested in the Samsung Xcover Pro, although it looks like all the used ones for sale are locked because they're being sold by ex-Walmart employees. (Or Rent-a-Center.)

I am so tired of phones trying to be the thinnest. What's even the point, once it can fit in a back pocket?
It seems like there should be someone catering to alternate sensibilities. I think I said it before, but I carry a purse: I would like a phone the thickness of a good sandwich, one that's fast, cheaper to build, and has a battery that doesn't quit.

 

[Boss Nigger]

Current: Nokia 3310
Future: Nokia 3310

 

[seri0us]

I am so tired of phones trying to be the thinnest. What's even the point, once it can fit in a back pocket?

Why put it in your back pocket? Wouldn't someone have an easier time stealing it? What if you gain alot of weight and your fat ass destroys the phone once you sit down?

 

[Aunt Carol]

Why put it in your back pocket? Wouldn't someone have an easier time stealing it? What if you gain alot of weight and your fat ass destroys the phone once you sit down?

Dunno; "pockets" was my only theory as to why people want the phone fanciness metric to be how thin it is.

I put mine in my back pocket when I'm weeding or something but I have to keep an ear out for the phone.

 

[Kosher Dill]

What if you gain alot of weight and your fat ass destroys the phone once you sit down?

Get excited for next product!

 

[Frail Snail]

Dunno; "pockets" was my only theory as to why people want the phone fanciness metric to be how thin it is.

I put mine in my back pocket when I'm weeding or something but I have to keep an ear out for the phone.

Have you ever tried putting these new fuck-off-large 7"+ phones into your front pocket and sitting down? Not a fun experience, especially if it also has a case. Androids the size of an older iPhone are vanishing and Apple will never make a thick brick because of its target audience. It seems like this is just another trend of something incredibly visually apparent becoming trendy for consoomers.

 

[Aunt Carol]

It seems like this is just another trend of something incredibly visually apparent becoming trendy for consoomers.

Other than the folding screen phones, it seems like smartphones all look about the same, from across the room. That's kind of sad. We don't need a cell phone shaped like Garfield, but there should be some outliers.

 

[Frail Snail]

Other than the folding screen phones, it seems like smartphones all look about the same, from across the room. That's kind of sad. We don't need a cell phone shaped like Garfield, but there should be some outliers.

There are phones with hardware component switches, like the Librem and Pinephone. No new developments in ease of part replacement, battery life, etc. The only reason I'd consider a new phone is to stay on top of security updates. New phones with Android 12 should be getting a safer app update process that also happens in the background. There's also some work being done to make the OS kernel more generic aside from driver blobs, so even the laziest Chinesium manufacturers can push out security and OS version updates.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

There are phones with hardware component switches, like the Librem and Pinephone. No new developments in ease of part replacement, battery life, etc. The only reason I'd consider a new phone is to stay on top of security updates. New phones with Android 12 should be getting a safer app update process that also happens in the background. There's also some work being done to make the OS kernel more generic aside from driver blobs, so even the laziest Chinesium manufacturers can push out security and OS version updates.

The best part of Android 12 has to be the software switches for the mic and cameras.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

You know what's annoying?

I've been buying cheap phones for awhile. The 2020 moto g power is fantastic, 600 series snapdragon, 64GB of storage, 5000 mah battery, stereo speakers, 1080p screen. $229.

Nowadays, "cheap" phones are $250, and come with mediatek chips, 720p screens, and mono speakers. Everyone has collectively given up on budget phones again. when I need a new phone in another 2-3 years I'm gonna have to shell out way too much $$$ for something better.

I'm happy with my X for now. I put a new better battery in it about 6 months ago and that breathed new life into it. Camera I don't really care about I just like how the 10 feels in my hand and operates. It's not a 13 or anything power wise but I don't really use my phone for computing or gaming so I don't need it. It's still lag free surfing even with 20 tabs opened and other apps running.

I've played around with some of the new Pixel phones and they seem slick but also my buddy complains about random lag especially with the camera. To me that just screams poor software experience even on a flagship like the Pixel that in theory would be the smoothest.

Went from a Pixel 4a XL to a Pixel 6.
I am never buying one again. Google could not give less a shit about anything in these phones except the cameras.

Google's biggest issue is that the pixel phones are not pixel phones. They are nexus phones. Google renamed them pixel, jacked up the price, but still designed the phones like the nexus line. Having a phone with flagship hardware, limited internal storage, and an iffy camera and battery was acceptable when the nexus were the only phones with stock android and cost $300 instead of $700.

The $400 a series is the only acceptable pixel product, but only because the sub $400 market has regressed to mid 2010s tier tech.

Kinda wanna try getting this year's iPhone, but I absolutely am not looking forward to being price-gouged by Apple.

Look at it this way: on the one hand, yes, those prices are eyewatering.

On the other hand: my grandmothers has a 6s plus. Her battery recently went to pot. One call to the local apple store, $49 later, she had a brand new full strength battery. No fuss, no wondering if mohammad at cell + super is going to steal your phone. If you want a new case? EVERY manufacturer supports every iphone. accessory? If it exists, there is an iphone version. You get adblocker support in the default browser. It will actually tell you battery health, and every "how to" will make sense because apple doesnt have 15 different makes of iPhone with their own ui.

You can expect your iphone to work for 7-8 years, and if you keep it even just 5 years, it's not that much more expensive then buying a $700 android phone every 3 years. If you keep it for 7-8, well thats like buying a $200 phone every 2 years. You're doing pretty good there. If you're not into banking apps, you can keep them even longer, one of the guys at work JUST replaced his iphone 4s.

If only apple allowed sideloading like the ios 8 days, I'd likely have one just because the android world just plain sucks now.

 

[Miller]

Google's biggest issue is that the pixel phones are not pixel phones. They are nexus phones.

I wish they made Nexus phones, at least they were affordable.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

I wish they made Nexus phones, at least they were affordable.

I miss my nexus 5, and my nexus 7 tablet. Skipped the 5x since it was trash, and lo and behold the next gen was overpriced pixel trash. That's when I made the jump to motorola.

With LG and HTC gone there really isnt much left now. Just samdung, motorola, google. And the chineseium of course.

 

[Miller]

I miss my nexus 5

I still have the Nexus 5 but I don't use it anymore. I have a shitty Samsung A10 that came with a new service carrier. I can't believe that they made a phone in 2020 that has no compass.

 

[seri0us]

I still have my 5X as a backup phone.

 

[DNA_JACKED]

I still have the Nexus 5 but I don't use it anymore. I have a shitty Samsung A10 that came with a new service carrier. I can't believe that they made a phone in 2020 that has no compass.

My N5 died an unceremonious death to diet coke many years ago, and its battery was already halfway through seppuku.

 

[Carpe Jugulum]

I have an iphone XR. I’ve always had iPhones because better the devil you know and I disliked early android phones.

I dislike apple more and when this eventually dies I want something I can put GrapheneOS on. I will learn to like android one way or the other. I’m just not sure what.

 

[PFM]

I miss my nexus 5, and my nexus 7 tablet. Skipped the 5x since it was trash, and lo and behold the next gen was overpriced pixel trash. That's when I made the jump to motorola.

The Nexus 6 was probably the best phone I've ever owned. If it was 64 bit I'd probably still be using it.

 

[Catler]

I had to get a new phone a few months ago and figured I'd try Android, something I seem to do every few years thinking maybe it's better this time. I returned that shit within the two week window. The Android experience is so, so awful. I gave it another chance, but nah, I can't put up with it.

I did the right thing after returning it and got a 12 Mini. Next time? I'll probably repeat the process having forgotten that Android is just as trash as always.

 

[Welsh Catgirl Enjoyer]

Current phone is a Huawei P20.

No plans for the next phone right now as I prefer to buy my phone outright rather than get it bundled with a contract, and I don't tend to want flagship smartphones. But getting back my headphone port and some wireless charging would probably be desirable features in my next upgrade.

Sticking with Android for now for sure though. I think I'd miss being able to sideload any old app if I jumped to iPhone.

 

[Russian Bot]

Recently did some repairs to my old s7. It had been put out of commission by shitty battery, and the headphone socket has been fucked since I bought it (second hand).

I miss when replacing a battery was a simple click in click out. This was prising a glued back off, loads of tiny tiny screws, and prising a glued in battery out. Once all that was done though, putting the new PCB part for the headphone socket and fitting the new battery were relatively simple.

Cost of parts for repair - about £25. Would have been probably about £150 to buy a new one.

Phone does everything I need it for, so no plans to upgrade any time soon.