• Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    My wife used Xperia phones exclusively for years. The only real issues she had, and why she dropped them, was their mid tier cameras and the severe overheating. She switched pre-COVID, so maybe the CPU issue has been addressed.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    What’s this about Motorola’s update practices? I have a Razr+ and it seems pretty clean Android to me, and I used to use GOS and Lineage before this, so my tolerance for bloatware is pretty low. I could never tolerate a Samsung.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Fuck Samsung, in giant letters.

      I’d use their hardware if they didn’t lock the bootloader, because it’s pretty nice.

      Did my share of fighting their nonsense back with the S3/S4. Had enough.

        • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          They’ve been a lot closer to stock android compared to the days of touchwiz since about the S10. I bought unlocked Note10 and S20s years ago and was a great experience, no bloat with the unlocked devices direct from Samsung.

    • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 days ago

      How long have you had the RAZR+? Have there been routine OS updates? I kinda wanna get either a 2025 or 2026 ultra in march/April and not sure the device will last or be supported for 2+ years

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I’ve been getting more updates than I want, and it’s a 2023? razr+. It’s not a new one, seems like they’re on top of it.

  • Pazintach@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I have a Sony Xperia 10 IV. To be honest, I only bought it for the headphone jack and microSD card slot, and struggled a lot between it and an old Fairphone. If not for gaming or taking pictures, it’s good enough, I guess. At lease, it’s good enough for me.

    I degoogled it, striped most of its property apps, and only installed FOSS ones as replacements. It has a good battery life (at lease for me), I only have to charge it twice a week, but I’m not a heavy user. (Only basic social, web browsing, music, some video watching.)

    It still receives security updates after three years, which should have stopped sometime ago. Anyway, I think I’ll eventually have to get it a new OS.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      0·
      2 days ago

      Not knowing the requirements that push you to needing an SD (I get it, I wish all phones still had them), but I found 2 apps that really help with reducing my need for an SD: Syncthing and Resilio Sync.

      ST ensures all files on my phone are synced to my home server (photos instantly, other files only when I have wifi), and Resilio enables me to pull any file from my home server at any time (with it’s Selective Sync feature).

      This may not address your requirements, just throwing it out there.

      • Pazintach@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        0·
        2 days ago

        The microSD card is for all the videos and lossless CDs, they are huge… For desktop syncing, I use self-hosted Syncthing too, somehow I didn’t use it for my phone…

  • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I’m using a 5v and its been a great phone so far. I will say, if you are in the US it is missing one of the important 5G bands and when it updates you have to go fiddle with the dual sim mode settings to get full internet speed again which is irritating.

    It was the only phone I could find at the time that was smaller sized, waterproof, had a headphone jack and sd card slot, and a good camera though.

  • Asetru@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Had Sony smartphones for years. Loved them. The real issue with Sony nowadays is imho their terrible update policy which only offers two or three years if updates iirc, which is so much less than other players it was a dealbreaker for me. Last time I had one I could flash a custom rom but the camera was locked to the original firmware, with the default mode being much worse than the one Sony offered - which I considered a dick move. Dunno how they behave with their current phones though.

    Just checked, the phone will supposedly be updated until 2031, which isn’t bad. Battery, camera, display all seem to be fine.

  • mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    2 days ago

    5 III here and it’s generally been good for 3.5 years now, but I’ve been disappointed to find the fingerprint reader stopped working recently. Apparently this is a somewhat widespread issue due to the narrow, edge-located design that allows too much moisture underneath it.

  • aramis87@fedia.io
    0·
    2 days ago

    Go to versus. On the left side, scroll down to 3.5mm headphone jack and change the selector to On. Then choose whatever are the other most important criteria for you.

  • SEND_BUTTPLUG_PICS@lemmy.zipEnglish
    0·
    2 days ago

    I’m running a Motorola G Power for the headphone jack. Do you have more info on their predatory update policy? Genuinely curious to know what’s in store for me in the future. I’m not crazy about this phone but it does have a headphone jack and an SD card slot which is why I settled for it.