samsung galaxy S10. headphone jack, expandable micro SD storage, none of the bloatware.
Samsung? No bloatware? Since when has that been a thing
could always root and rom it, or whatever that means. My tech-inclined friend said it would fix any bloatware, but I’ve always just ignored the features I don’t want and it’s cool
It runs Lineage, the last of the Galaxies iirc.
Motorola One. Cost me 200 bucks four years ago. Claims to be water resistant, but I’ve dropped it in the lake about a dozen times and accidentally tossed it in the washing machine once (I got it out right away.) It hasn’t so much as frozen since buying it and the battery can still go about two days without a charge.
It’s called the Moto One. Motorola doesn’t make phones. Lenovo makes those, they bought the Motorola mobility brand years ago.
You really pissed him off lol
People buy them all the time thinking they’re buying a Motorola phone. They’re not the first person to be upset/disappointed that I pointed that out.
Oh my stars and garters, was I not specific with my words? Am I ignorant to which company has acquired other companies so I can be as technical as possible?
Or did I buy this phone, the one I’m typing on now, from the Motorola website, and it came in a box covered in motorola branding? How absolutely idiotic of me to assume Moto was short for Motorola.
I can not believe I was this wrong on the internet. The damage I’ve done to the collective knowledge of everyone who’s seen my comment, who didn’t know any better, can never be healed.
How will we ever recover from this tragedy???!
Fairphone if you lay weight with the environment, Pixel for Graphene if you value privacy.
Of those three otherwise, the pixelLol at the last phones “pro” being “ultra portable”.
Unless this means that programs and such can be ported to it, aren’t all cell phones ultra portable? Isn’t that the point?
To me that’s like saying a pro of a specific model of car is that it is “ultra drivable”
You cant say its wrong
how is “ultra-portable” a positive, when all these phone are the same size, and not even small phones at all?
Same way "Confusing Charging Situation " is a thing when they all charge the same way, plus minus wireless but the pixel can do both, unless that is what is confusing.
I looked it up and the ROG phone 8 pro isn’t even smaller or lighter than the other two - if anything it’s slightly bigger and heavier. Truly useless as a positive point.
Yeah, these pro/con lists are just random bullshit with 0 accountability and consistency.
The only useful comparisons are ones that show the actual specs side by side, and even then it doesn’t tell the whole story.
Just finished setting up my Xperia Z2 Compact with Lineage OS. It is such a relief to have a truly compact phone again
Those comparison charts like the one you posted are unresearched/uncritical garbage made to sell affiliate links. They’ll never actually give a harsh review to anything listed because they want you to buy something
Your best bet is to ask owners’ groups for each phone you’re considering for reviews and buying advice and weighing that yourself.
Positives … Good AI features
Negatives … No 4K recording on all lenses
Some people just have different priorities.
Yeah. AI and quality of video recording is just not high on the list for me.
Negatives - only 128gb storage
WTF who writes this shite?
I suppose it’s bad if you play a lot of mobile games or you’re a grandparent, but it’s more than enough for everyone else.
“Or if you’re a grandparent”? What makes you say this?
Lots of pics and vids of the grandkids, maybe?
🤖
My phone has 256gb storage and it’s constantly full. Next phone I’m getting needs to have 1tb+ storage
Lol Samsung A-Series still has microSD cards. 1TB sd card go brrrr
(just watch samsung pull the sd slot from the A-series too 😭)
what do you use that storage for? could you send a screenshot about the storage usage statistics?
I have so many apps that I rarely use and I still only have used 45 GB. I use an sd card for the media, though, and a lot of app backups that you probably can’t do anyway, but that’s not much of a difference
45G is often the size of the OS nowadays. :/ Mine is 30G by itself. The rest of my 128G is taken up by apps/photos/videos I could admittedly clean up. I also have a 512GB SD card I use to carry my entire music library (well, a compressed version).
on my device, calyx os takes 22 GB, and I think this is a lot. I can’t understand what takes 45 GB in a system. Technically probably it’s only half of it used at a time because of A/B partitions, but half of that is still a lot
Mostly media
“Others” is just more media it’s not counting for some reason
hmm I see. what kind of media is that, movies and music or pictures and recorded videos? if it’s the latter, you don’t have a computer at home right?
It’s all of the above. I do have computer and self host plex but I need to keep some of the stuff locally because I travel a lot
I hate that they lumped the “AI” features into one.
Like… I love AI up scaling, but AI assistants can f*** off.
If I’m paying $900 for a phone, you’d better believe that 4K30 is the barest of bare minimums I’m expecting that rear camera to do unless it’s a deliberate tradeoff for something more ethical like a Fairphone. The Pixel 9 base model can shoot at 4K60 and 1080p240 (256 GB and the same $900 price). “Good AI features” lmfao blow it out your ass, Asus. I wonder where this comparison chart is coming from anyway.
My 2022 iPhone SE, that I bought new for about $550, records 4K at 60fps.
I’m a little shocked that isn’t the base standard for all smartphones now.
There are Samsung A-Series phones that support 4k @30fps
Galaxy A25 is about $299 and has 6.5 inch 1080p 120hz display, records at 4K @30fps
Galaxy A35 is about $100 more than the above, and along with the above mentioned, also has IP67 water resistance hand under-display fingerprint sensor
Cheap phones are getting so good these days
I don’t care about camera quality at all, I much prefer longevity, performancd, ports, other sensors, custom ROM and root support. And so, most smartphones of manufacturers chasing the trend of camera quality, especially if they are 1k+, are not fit for me.
- shove it up your asus
My priority would be longevity, ports and an open bootloader.
+ good custom rom support.
Und natürlich Schildkrötenfreundlichkeit :3
I’d seriously add the song xperia vi into that consideration. Solid audio and screen.
Looooove the battery life on the Xperia 1 VI, very good even on 5G. Just a shame it’s so expensive
Does depend on your carrier though. AT&T is pretty much off the table, it’s not whitelisted.
I recently changed from the major carriers to JMP.chat (and now USMobile) because my carrier randomly decided a Pixel5 can’t work on their network. But if I buy a Pixel 5 from them, it works.
JMP.chat pipes your SMS into XMPP, which is awesome, for $5/mo, including phone calls. I just use USMobile for a data connection now.
Yes, but if a phone isn’t on AT&Ts whitelist you can’t even get a data connection. It’s bs for sure (the phone can use the same bands), but it means you can’t register it with AT&T, and I’m not going back on anything like sprint.
VI isn’t on LineageOS, only V is.
Still good enough, unique shape (nicer in hand), solid build, good-ish snappers.
God can these people keep AI out of phones?
Even those stupid “AI” camera features can fuck off, they always make the photo worse, unless all the do is pick a filter and adjust the saturation/brightness/contrast/etc. as soon as the do something unreversable like add blurring, they can fuck off because it always looks janky AF in real world use
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Of these 3, the Pixel 9. It can run both GrapheneOS and CalyxOS.
The Pixel 8a can also run both, but it only costs $400. CalyxOS will support both phones until 2031.
There’s not a lot of reason to even jump from the 8 Pro to the 9 Series unless you slurp up the marketing hype, especially if you don’t care about intensive tasks like games.
For me personally, the new phone feeling comes from wiping my device every now and then and selecting exactly the right slate of apps to make my life easier/better/more organized.
When it comes to hardware it feels like there is less differentiation than ever before. Oneplus could make a case for their slider button, phones with a headphone jack or removable battery can claim bonus points for that, and I hear Sony has some nice form factors (tall & thin). When it comes down to it, the most important question for me is can I unlock it and get rid of any pre-installed junk.
I’m about to switch from iPhone to a Pixel 9 so I can put CalyxOS on it. Used iPhones since a 3GS in 2009, but the time has come.
OOT, what site is this?
Personally, when I can afford it I’m going to go for the OnePlus Nord N10 5G. I don’t feel the need for the more stringent security hardening on GrapheneOS, so basic LineageOS MicroG is enough for me.
I hate the lack of a headphone jack enough to make that tradeoff, vs a Google Pixel.
Is there a phone with a proper headset jack and isn’t tainted by whispers of Chinese evil gov spying ? My country still feels the sting of the Nortel issue.
Sony Xperia?
Good question, I honestly don’t know. :-(
I can recommend the Samsung Galaxy A25. Has samsung chips (A15 has mediatek) and an audio jack (A35 does not). From what I’ve seen the new models (A16 at least) have all ditched the audio jack.
Decent phone with an okay screen, a headphone jack, and expandable storage.
Maybe motorola? I don’t know about chinese spying, and my g31 has a headphone jack, micro sd card slot and a pretty large battery (and is pretty affordable).
Gsmarena is a better site to use for comparison of technical specs, if you care about those.
I also use phonearena as a secondary. No idea if the two are related.
I was wondering when someone would say this. It’s the only site I use to research phones.
They are quite exceptionally good and I really wish other consumers products had a website like that one with as much trust as that one.
I feel like this should probably be top comment here
I love my Nothing Phone 2. Check them out.
Of the 3, probably Pixel,but if definitely we flashing it.
I love my Nothing Phone 2. Check them out.
Lol just did that and ran into an unexpected Spez mugshot under “meet the investors”
Well fuck. Did not know that…this might just have ruined my day lmao
I guess the plus side is, Pei left 1+ because he didn’t like where they were going and felt restricted, so maybe it’s purely a money thing? He’s shown he’s successful in the market with his vision, so I’ll assume it’s just financial backing and no pressure from the “board”?
I’m coping hard rn lmao
