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• serpineslair@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Agreed, my phone cost less than 300, had it for years and it’s still going strong. I’m also in the tech industry, and it has everything I need and then some. I can see why people would go for a Pixel, if they want to run GrapheneOS.

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• j4k3@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Still using pixel 6. When they stole my battery with their bullshit, I went and got a open hardware tablet running a Rockchip processor with Arm Arch and a full datasheet. If open hardware exists whenever the criminals quit security updates for this orphan kernel exploit, I will gladly buy it. I don’t care who makes it or what the specs are. If it has basic functionality, I’m fine with that. Mainline kernel support with fully documented hardware is god. I don’t care if it is two or three times more expensive. If there are no strings attached, and I can own it for life, I will buy it. Funding this criminal world is what I hate more than anything else.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m hoping for a small handheld unit that has cellular. As someone who doesn’t use Nintendo usually, basically a mini-switch2 with cellular that I can install my own os (maybe steam is, not sure yet) I won’t love it

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  • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wait, what? 

    […]whenever the criminals quit security updates for this orphan kernel exploit. […]

    Funding this criminal world is what I hate more than anything else.

    I’m confused. Are Google the criminals in this context?

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• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I work in IT and have since 2011… most people are buying $800+ phones for no reason

  I do actually agree, but it’s funny you say this in a post where you’re glazing the Galaxy S4.

  Adjusted for inflation that thing would cost $876 today.

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• Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah I just pretty modern phones second hand for $200-300 every time mine starts to die, I found for my use case at least, that smaller phones tend to survive longer and are just much more comfortable to hold. I’m ready for the larger and larger phones trend to end already.

  It was like 2 weeks ago, my friend and I, were remembering our younger years and how we loved the Galaxy S4, I had the mini version, best phone that ever existed.

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I refered my LG Rumor at that time, but that was just me. It fell out of my pocket going 45mph on a highway, survived… I opened a cooler at Sam’s club and the moisture made the screen no longer flip and die. It was sad, but I enjoyed every phone I’ve had… Each has their pink sun glasses. But must say… Never have I sat a flagship on a shelf and just used a phone with a cracked screen that is only 1/5 the price till now. I spent to much time focused on feature, and the last year I have learned what use is it feels. I see 0 reason to use the pixel 9 pro, when it maybe runs laps supposedly around this. I had to change settings to make my spouse (Samsung 24 user) even able to think that phone was usable. (She doesn’t want gestures, there are no dock buttons by default).

    Force quitting an app is like figuring out thermodynamics… As someone who studied thermodynamics. Rediulous

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  MrWhosetheboss testen that. Turns out the main difference between a cheap and expensive phone is the amount of bloatware that comes with it.

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• cliffracer_cloaka@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I agree on all fucking points.

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• selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My checklist of features is always complete with a ~200 USD offer:

  • GPS with at least compatibility with three constellations/bands, included navstar
  • needs to have FM radio or something similar that doesn’t depend on an internet connection
  • 3.5 jack
  • SD card slot or 256 GB or more local storage
  • huge battery life, so I can keep it at 80% maximum to save battery cycles for the long run
  • oled screen, of +60Hz, better
  • decent camera or set of cameras
  • unlockable bootloader
  • good odds to make it to official status in Lineage OS

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My Xperia was a bit pricier (ca. 400 $) but i can finally reach the whole screen with one hand and don’t have to worry about battery anymore. And has SDcard for backup too.

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• UNY0N@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hell yeah.

  I am the IT guy in my family, I have a bunch of S7s for the wife and kids with eOS, and everybody is more then happy with them.

  I got a fairphone 5 a awhile ago for myself, and while it did cost €600+, I wanted the modularity and reparability, I just wanted to support that type of company and try it out. Hopefully I will have it for 10 years or so.

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• gi1242@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ve never paid more than $150 for a phone

  I’m contemplating buying a fair phone and going de Googled android. that will cost a bit more and take a little bit more time …

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The market is kind of a trap. They sell the expensive, high end stuff for the suckers who are willing to buy them, and for those who demand the absolute best — for whatever reason.

  They all sell cheaper phones. This year, it was incredibly obvious that, dollar for dollar, the iPhone 17 is the best iPhone deal, but Apple got shit earlier this year when they released the 16e at the price used 15 Pros were going for (when the 16 Pro/Max was the latest model). The 16e has a couple advantages over the 15 Pro, like the custom Apple modem and… I think there was one other thing? Very minor though. Apple used to sell a cheaper phone, the SE, and the SE 2 and 3 are modeled after the iPhone 8, but they have the guts of an 11, the difference being, the 3 supports 5G. I had the SE 2 and got it for $250. It was $200 but I paid $50 to go from 64GB (base model) to 128GB.

  These days, you can’t get an iPhone that low. You have to pay more, or pay with your privacy and go Android. I’ve heard lots of great things about the latest Galaxy A phone. It’s $200, it’s 128GB storage, 4GB RAM (a bit low for modern Android… even a bit low for iOS), “decent-ish” cameras, 6.7", 1080p, and it refreshes up to 90Hz. Apparently, it’s a pretty decent phone for the money.

  But honestly, privacy or otherwise, I’m kinda done pretending Apple has the high ground or that one brand is inherently better than the other. I still like Apple for the Mac. I don’t like the direction Windows has gone (though I quite enjoy the Windows 11 machine I use at work, and I’ve set it up differently to how everyone else has theirs… I would not choose Windows for my home computer, if it could even run it). As I said, as others have said, phone makers have good phones at lower prices, and the high end is kind of a scam. All you’re missing out on with cheaper phones is AI (which I don’t need or really care about missing) and high end gaming… which I also don’t care about. Apple has some “AAA” Ubisoft and Capcom games like Assassin’s Creed and Resident Evil games on the iPhone, and apparently they look great for running on a <7" screen, but I’m not interested. I’ll take a run in Subway Surfers every now and then, but for actual “gaming,” I have an Xbox for that. I just want my phone to be a handheld personal computing device, and that’s not a good look for gaming.

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• definitelynotavampire@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I miss my s3. It was my first smartphone and still my favorite. I loved the size, the shape, the fact that the battery was removable, even android was so much better back then.

  I know I’m going to get shit on but I still like the s-series. I’ve gotten non s-series smart phones twice (the htc one and an unlocked Motorola something) and I hated my htc and was meh on the other. I’ve had the s3, s7, s10, s21, and now I have the s25. The s10 stopped connecting to the network when they upgraded the towers to 5g and shut off 3g and because of the carrier I’m on I would have had to jailbreak it to fix it. It was already 4 years old at that point so I just ugraded to the s21. I had that for 3 or 4 years until the internal antenna died and it stopped connecting to the cell towers. I’m hoping I get similar usage out of the s25, but I’m planning on my next phone being some cheap ass POS because it’s all I’ll be able to afford.

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• solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The G Play 2024 didn’t have 5g and people say that’s significant. I got the G Stylus 2023 which was $250 at the time, so I’d consider it midrange. It’s fine, I don’t need a fancier phone. NTN (non terrestrial network i.e. satellite) text comms is the next interesting feature. Currently only in flagships so I can wait for it to reach budget phones.

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  • mmcintyre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Reading this on my 2021 G Stylus. Husband keeps trying to convince me to get a newer phone. But I haven’t had any problems with this one yet!

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    • dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      G Stylus 2020 here, still going. Don’t always get two days of battery life any more but otherwise it does everything I need.

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