Only issue I have had with my Axon 7 is that the battery is starting to eat shit being that its well over 2 years old. But once I replace that, I probably won't need another phone for awhile being that I still get updates through Lineage OS.
I have a nokia 6 and I'm really happy with it. Inside the specs are a bit meh but outside it's all metal and I've dropped it multiple times and it haasnt even scratched the paint, software however nokia has had monthly security updates and just this week Android 9.
Could've used a removable batery and maybe some water proofing, but I've used it in the rain and nothing broke.
Alright consumers, this is mistake #1: Never buy from a Jew.
A lot of the problem in the American market is that people are finally seeing the retail price of the phones they're purchasing. iPhones and Galaxies have always been fairly expensive products, but the customer only ever paid contract pricing for them - a severely reduced rate subsidized by the carrier you were purchasing the phone from. Working in cell phone sales, I have people coming in all the time looking for "free phones" - something Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint would do sporadically as a deal for upgrading and locking in another 2 year contract. Yes, the phone was "free," but you were stuck with the carrier for another two years, with the only way out being a hefty fee. Now, all three carriers have reworked their plans to be moderately cheaper (keyword: moderately) and work the retail cost of the phone as a financing plan for the same term. To put it in perspective, the iPhone 5 launched retail as $649, but the contract price was $199, almost 7 years ago.
Now, I'm not trying to justify $1000, $1200, $1500, or $2000 phones. It's pretty fucking ridiculous. But, I'd be one to argue that for what Apple and Samsung now consider their "introductory" phones (the XR and S10e), the prices have hardly changed in almost a decade - consumers are just finally realizing the real cost their phones are valued at.
It also doesn't help that repairs on a lot of these devices are absurd as well - Apple Authorized repairs on the XR and XS for screens start at a few hundred without any kind of service plan.
consumers are also more and more broke
Glad to hear the masses are getting sick of spending shitloads of money every year on the big new phone but its unfortunate it comes with the tradeoff of giving China another foothold in our society
I love my moto g6, never had a problem with it and really don't understand peoples need to shell out for £600 phones beyond I guess it being a status symbol.
I never got the whole yearly upgrade mentality. Microsoft Office, Photoshop, and of course mobile devices.
Why update these things every year, when only a few good and interesting things come every other year or so?
For me I just buy whats useful and just roll with it. Can it make calls, can it access the internet, play music?
Great, sold!
Then I just use it, Make it last for as long as it does.
If it had a special feature or 2 on it, neat.
But at the end of the day those features won't really sell me on the phone, it's usefulness does.
I wouldn’t mind spending a lot of money on a phone, I generally keep mine for 4-5 years until I replace them, but what I do mind is terribly made phones.
My last phone was an iPhone 5C which was... fine. The only bullshit with it was iOS updates slowing it down. Recently replaced it with an iPhone 7, thinking that Apple couldn’t possibly fuck up an iPhone. But that’s exactly what they did, there are so many idiotic design choices that went into it. It’s almost offensive how badly Apple must take their customers for granted, and I’ve resolved that my next phone won’t be an iPhone.
I have one of these
https://www.techradar.com/uk/reviews/honor-view-10-review
2160x1080 display, 6 GB RAM, 128 GB storage, Kirin 970, regularly get 2 days battery life, £350.
Not sure why I would want to spend more to get less storage and worse battery life.
I can't imagine why I'd need a more powerful phone than my LG V20. It's already stupidly powerful for a phone. Honestly, if this phone broke I'd probably just buy another V20, a removable battery is just too important to me.
What the fuck do you mean by this.
It seems like at some point (looking at iPhone X) they stopped giving a fuck about diminishing returns and started letting you pay way more just to eek out a little extra power.
I have a buddy whose going from an S9 to an S10 and I really don't get the mentality. My normal is two years.
My 99 dollar Samsung is seemingly indestructible (dropped it on concrete at work twice, and it's not suffered so much as a scratch), and yet apple is selling phones for a thousand dollars that are still among the most fragile electronics on the market. Something is very wrong here.
i like the thinness of the galaxy s9, i've put mine in a bulky cover and it's still the smallest phone i've ever had and its indestructible.
how did you two get a good experience out of that phone my G4 is utter trash, overheats like a bitch and lags a ton, sometimes even pressing the navbar has a delay
I have a Nexus 5X, Got it in late 2016. I love the headphone jack and my phone is starting to age, The prices for phones i like are too high. I don't really know if i can last to 2021 with my phone as it died from a bootloop and had to get it fixed.
The only problem that I have is that after it heats up a bit (if I am doing tons and tons of shit on it which is rare), the screen bleeds into other programs, besides that, it's perfect.
Still using my Nexus 6. Ad blocking unfortunately slows down the phone when web browsing since it's not rooted and I need to use Firefox mobile's uBlock Origin. The 32GB amount of space and no microSD is starting to become an issue especially as my music collection grows (I have a crap data plan and poor cell connection, and I prefer higher quality music). Battery lasts a day unless I leave an app like UberEats open and the location sensor stays on. There's also a small dent in the screen from my dog slapping my phone.
Still, I've had no reason to update. There hasn't been any feature that's made me go "wow, I need that". I have my Switch for mobile gaming and touch screen gaming is kinda crap for the types of games I enjoy. Videos work fine and I don't need 4k on a fucking 6 inch screen. Google Pay works fine. I have a Rift at home so I don't need subpar VR. I can open email, read documents etc. with Office, and I can do mild photo editing with PicsArt. I don't like thin fragile phones either, and I tend to be careful with my things so waterproof isn't worth an upgrade. I also use my headphones jack more often lately and newer flagships dropped that.
I think phone makers put themselves in a corner because their new phones don't have features worth an upgrade. Well optimized apps means having craploads of RAM isn't really necessary for basic tasks, most cameras in high end phones are good enough, and gimmicks aren't worth shelling out $1000 for. At this point most features are software related and don't require new hardware. Thus, mid tier phones look more attractive to people who need to upgrade since they do everything at a cheaper price.
I had the Nexus 5X from 2016 in to 2017. I went through 3 in the time I owned it, I thought it was horrible. 2 to boot loop issues and 1 had a crack that appeared on the screen that grew to envelop the entire screen in gray scan-lines within 24 hours. But some probably got the luck of the draw with their models.
I have Honor 7 Lite which I got few years ago. This phone doesn't deserve to be this good considering the price I got it for. The only downside on it is the fact that China probably has every bit of info on me my phone could give to them
In the US, we're pretty much stuck now it seems with buying "flagship killers" that are well over $500 USD. Ever since OnePlus raised their prices, and other brands like ZTE and Huawei started getting the shaft due to our government, it's become harder to find flagship killers for decent prices. Not to mention we miss out on using phones by Xiaomi (like the ever popular Pocophone F1) simply because those devices don't support most of the US's mobile bands, or they don't even sell the devices to US markets.
As such, the US is seemingly stuck with flagship prices for flagship specs now. I may very well be getting an S10 to replace my 4 year old phone soon simply because it's the only phone with current specs that has expandable storage and a headphone jack.
i've got a galaxy s9+ - but it was made affordable because of a trade-in deal (which i highly do not recommend) and student discount. if it wasn't for that i wouldn't have even considered buying the phone. seriously, if i'm spending $800+ it better have a LOT of nifty things in it.
however -- it is a FANTASTIC phone, especially for what i paid for it. there's nothing wrong i can really find with it. it does its job and it's fast as heck too. even with the new OS installed it's still doing pretty well. of course, it does suffer from the obligatory android battery issues from time to time. nothing i can really do about that.
i just wish more of my friends had androids. my next phone HAS to be an iphone for convenience's sake and i'm not looking forward to shelling out the money for one.
it certainly does heat up a lot, I mostly use it for playing Pokémon GO and Hearthstone. I've had it for about 2 years now and it's just starting to die as smartphones do: charging is getting real slow, doesn't hold much charge, sound doesn't even work now...
it's been good while it's lasted
Yo that happened to me too, couldn't even play videos and make calls. Then the GPS stopped working and I said goodbye to that phone.
I been using only Moto Gs for the past 6 years, only changing phones when the thing breaks. Had the og g, 2, 4 and now 6. Maybe I will switch to xiaomi for my next phone.
apple phones have always seemed really fragile to me. I've never cracked or broken a phone in my life but I've almost always kept to the whole android ecosystem. maybe I'm just lucky
my phone twice has had the audio die on it, both times i nearly overslept because the alarm didnt play
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