Your current and next phone. - Smartphone general

[Cupronickel]

I personally use a Nokia 225 4G as my main device. I used to have a low-end Moto G something, but I realized that smartphones were kinda fucking up my life. The best thing about it is that there's no social media (well, besides a facebook icon on the home screen, but that just opens up the early 2010s mobile site in the browser) and other bullshit to distract me. Also it has a removable battery, which is extremely uncommon these days. I predict that I might be able to get a decade of use out of it. No KaiOS bullshit either; it's running Nokia's own in-house OS.

Honestly I wanted to just use an old BlackBerry at first, but it's literally impossible to set them up since BB shut down the activation servers. Bummer.

 

[Eugene90]

Currently using the S22 Samsung.

Very disappointing battery life, possibly due to that Dynamic Amoled X2 display that can support QHD and it's got a shit ton of nits, this phone is fuck-off-everything bright, even when I dim it to 20%.

Also the phone's charging speed is ridiculously slow even if it supports 25W quick charge (I won't call it fast charge because anything lower than 60W is considered sub-par today), it literally makes no sense for phones to need to charge over an hour just to get back up out there with today's available tech. Hell even iPhones charge faster than it with decent 100W GaN charging plugs.

While the One UI is a huge step in the right direction for Samsung after the whole Touch Wiz OS dogshit experience in the past, I feel like it's still holding the phone back from doing anything intensive, plus that Exynos chipset I'm saddled with is a total joke in performance and temp management compared to even more power-hungry Snapdragon chipsets.

Hell even Mediatek Dimensities perform better than them in leagues.

I might consider trading it off for something more performance focused like a Red Magic 7 or wait for the Black Shark 5.

I don't give a damn about cameras since I don't take pictures that often, there's even less to be said about selfies.

Besides, if I want good photography, I'll just pick a DSLR camera and call it a day. No camera-phile smartphones can compete with that, not even any Leica-collaborative phones can do it.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

My next phone will be one that is on sale for less than 250 but only after doing autistic research on the components. (Notebookcheck and GSMArena is good for this, soybeard tech journos reviewing the camera and mouthfeel can be found by googling)

 

[Doppelmonger]

You know what I miss? Smaller phones. Most sub 5 inches phones have terrible specs around here. I do not care about cameras nor how smooth the screen moves. I just ask for a phone that I do not have to take out of my pants to sit.

I want a Unihertz Jelly 2, but it is expensive to import here last time I checked.

 

[Osmosis Jones]

Been using a Pixel 3 for 3.5 years and I don't plan on getting rid of it until it absolutely won't work anymore. Best smart phone I've had since the inception of smart phones.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Motorola just updated to Android 11 and it's now a completely unusable, laggy mess. Thanks for that.

 

[Zamak]

ip 67 water resistance? check.
removable battery? check.
custom ROM support? check.

suck my cock goyimcattle iniggers. never upgrading.

 

[Akashic Retard]

I have the iPhone SE, I think it was like $500, and will likely always have whatever the cheapest iPhone is. I've used iPhones for years and don't feel like switching to an android and having to fuck with myriad new settings and accounts and apps etc. My phone works fine and does all the simple things I need it to do. Not really interested in autistic complexity in my phone and don't feel the need to download tons of random apps, I prefer that on my computer.

Also, I had a droid eris years ago which iirc was one of the first two phone models that were made when android was a new thing. The small cheaper eris with a trackball and the bigger droid with the slide out physical keyboard. This was years ago of course but I remember my droid getting insanely slow eventually to the point that I couldn't even type a text without having to wait for the letters to appear on the screen seconds after typing them. Probably had a virus on it or something but I've never had this sort of problem on an iphone, they've stayed pretty consistent.

 

[Zinc1257]

just spent an hour trying to flash the stock firmware to my bricked phone. it was going well at first, but eventually when i started to flash the main chunks it gave me a permission denied error. yes, i was running the command as sudo. yes, my bootloader was unlocked. tried looking up a solution but all i found was pajeets on XDA rambling about dumb shit. rip little moto g pure, it was a good run. sorry for the bad image quality btw.

 

[Ghostface Killah]

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.

I mean, to be fair, iDevices are designed for retard/older/boomer/challenged users. That was the selling keypoint when I worked at a shitty generic ATT phone store and I was instructed to use that analogy on customers. So, with an iRetard such as yourself, I wouldn't expect your type to figure out the backend nuances of any current generation Android device anyways. I mean, how advanced does an iDevice user really get? Tell Siri to automate a basic schedule? Lawl

 

[Baguette Child]

Currently using Pinephone with Manjaro. I wrote a couple posts about it here. It has a lot of serious downsides. Camera is trashy for anything non-work related. Graphical capabilities are low. Screen is supposedly 1080p but to my eye it looks less. Build quality is acceptable, but feels cheapish.

I like the repairability of the phone. It's easy to fix and keep running. The 6-pin hardware socket is nice for adding things like physical keyboards or LoRa modules. Battery life on my unit is pretty decent.

I'm planning to keep using it for at least another 11 months. At that time I'll look into the newer Pinephone Pro and hope that the software development is further along. It's supposed to have a much better camera and more modernized chipset. I have concerns that it might have less battery life as a result though.

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Current Phone: Razer Phone
Next Phone: I'm already satisfied with my current phone. If my phone were to shit the bed for whatever reason, I'd probably just get the Razer Phone 2 (if that's even out yet)

 

[Doctor Neo Cortex]

Current Phone: Razer Phone
Next Phone: I'm already satisfied with my current phone. If my phone were to shit the bed for whatever reason, I'd probably just get the Razer Phone 2 (if that's even out yet)

Razer phone 2 has been out for years, I think razer discontinued it. There was a Razer phone 3 in development but it was cancelled.

https://www.slashgear.com/772882/razer-phone-3-prototype-may-hint-why-it-was-canceled/

Shame though, as they seem to last longer than the other gaming phones on the market, and razer still seems to be giving them updates.

 

[Baguette Child]

Shame though, as they seem to last longer than the other gaming phones on the market, and razer still seems to be giving them updates.

Yeah I was really bummed when they discontinued the line. I used to have the first Razer phone, really liked it for what it was. It's one of those phones that seems to have a dedicated cult following; I watch a few communities centered around phones and people who had the first two really liked them. Seems like there'd be a definite market for them to bring it back.

 

[Kheapathic]

I have Verizon sending me monthly texts telling me I'm due for an upgrade. Currently have an LG G7 ThinQ, but taking suggestions for what to look for.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Currently have an LG G7 ThinQ, but taking suggestions for what to look for.

Ever since LineageOS became unusable I've just stuck with Samsungs with debloating applied.

https://github.com/khlam/debloat-samsung-android/

 

[seri0us]

Ever since LineageOS became unusable I've just stuck with Samsungs with debloating applied.

https://github.com/khlam/debloat-samsung-android/

Since when did LineageOS become unusable? I'm on 18.1 and it works just fine.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Since when did LineageOS become unusable?

Since the major US carriers started the push to VoLTE, narrowing the intersection between "Phones that will run LOS" and "Phones that can be used to make phone calls" to a few of the chinkiest chinkphones running hacked-up pajeet LOS builds from XDA-Developers off-topic threads.

Europeans seem to have better luck in this regard.

 

[Frail Snail]

just spent an hour trying to flash the stock firmware to my bricked phone. it was going well at first, but eventually when i started to flash the main chunks it gave me a permission denied error. yes, i was running the command as sudo. yes, my bootloader was unlocked. tried looking up a solution but all i found was pajeets on XDA rambling about dumb shit. rip little moto g pure, it was a good run. sorry for the bad image quality btw.View attachment 3463969

Are you from the US? The amount of horror stories I've heard about vendors in Freedomland, especially cell providers, going the extra mile to prevent unlocking bootloaders and flashing/changing ROMs is insane.

 

[Basil Julep]

Are you from the US? The amount of horror stories I've heard about vendors in Freedomland, especially cell providers, going the extra mile to prevent unlocking bootloaders and flashing/changing ROMs is insane.

That is why I only buy unlocked Google Pixels. I *hate* not having control of my phone. I don't actually give a flying fuck about the camera which seems to be the only consistent thing about the Pixel line.

Many pixels are slow, some have shit build quality, but hey, you can at least unlock them and run another OS.

I still miss my nexus 5. Fast, great build quality, unlockable, CHEAP. The power button eventually broke after many years but I found someone to fix it that day.