So what is the best flagship phone currently for normies? P20 pro?
/spg/ - Smartphone General
Dominic King
Noah Campbell
So Huawei is now Nokia. RIP custom ROMS or root for Huawei phones.
Ian Brown
How's the XZ1 performance? Does it have any touch issues and wifi dropping like the XZP? It's around 300 USD from where I live so I'm kinda eyeing it at the moment. Also, how good/bad is the 2700 mAh on it?
Julian Edwards
Redmi Note 5 now (180-220€) or Pocophone F1 later (329)?
Josiah Johnson
Resurrection Remix is based and redpilled imho
Thanks to the many Pajeets on youtube for helping me install it
Gavin Rogers
Imagine the XZ1 compact if wasn't thick as a brick, didn't have those ridiculous bezels and a camera that wasn't complete shit
Dominic Sullivan
For me it's the Mi Max 3
Jeremiah Jackson
for mi it's the 5X
Kayden Perry
I've seen the essential. It looks pretty bad desu.
XDA has bootloader unlock for the V30 though, so not sure what you mean
Isaiah Garcia
>how do I avoid making a huge mistake?
The same way you would purchasing any new electronic device, research, see what's popular, see what it comes with, what you want, what your budget is, what you want but the absence of isn't a deal breaker, that sort of thing.
>More than anything, I want to understand how a mobile UI differs from a desktop operating system.
Quite a bit, very simplistic, after a day-ish of fiddling with it everything should be found pretty intuitively if you're not a grandma that thinks the minidisc is witchcraft.
The "desktop" of the smartphone will have several pages which contain shortcuts to programs you can tap to run, those are typically added onto the "desktop" as soon as they are installed, but you can remove them from it and just find them through a kind of 'start' menu.
Installing apps is done through the 'app store' (an app within itself), and it's as easy as looking it up.
>what kind of housekeeping do I need to do as soon as I boot it up for the first time?
If you're not going to root/flash it, pretty much nothing, and I recommend you don't if you only just got a smartphone.
Setting up the appropriate apple/google account (admittedly you can avoid it on android devices) which the phone will hold your hand through, downloading the shit you want from the app store, uninstalling shit you might not want, that's it, really.
Smartphones are pretty usable right out of the box, especially if you're new and don't quite know what you want yet.
>I've already researched acceptable specs, looked at the Jow Forums wiki, compared prices and so on but it doesn't tell me anything about using the device itself. Yes I live under a rock.
It's honestly pretty straight forward, if you can navigate a desktop computer fine you can definitely navigate a smartphone after a day of getting used to it.