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Good Resources:
>Reviews, Specs, Comparisons
gsmarena.com
phonearena.com
kimovil.com

>Frequency Checker
willmyphonework.net
frequencycheck.com
kimovil.com/en/frequency-checker

>Chinkphone news
gizchina.com
gizmochina.com

>Visual Phone Size Comparison
phonearena.com/phones/size

>Post a Mini-Review of your Smartphone
>Discuss upcoming and current models
>Ask for help related to phones
>Tell us how much shekels you spent on good/bad phone

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I'm thinking of getting the mix 3. Will my skin become brown?

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Enjoy your free tan, brah.

First for Note 9

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Is the pen actually useful? Do people take notes that often?

You were the chosen one! You were supposed to destroy the Notch, not join them.

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>pill notch

Please tell me this is not real.

Do we really need two cameras in front?

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im a drawfag so i often draw shit and whatnot on it when im on a bus. The note 9 one also doubles as a remote so its more useful than ever.

It's a shame there's no Mi8 SE global version, the chink one is hard to find, is above msrp and will have issues with roms
>cheap, under 300
>amoled
>more than adequate SD710
>not too big, 5.88"
There's nothing similar out there. I would've chosen it over my pocomeme.

looks like I was right, kek at this Pixel 3 ad in my paper

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hy there, i'm looking for a new phone but i lack knowledge
so i got for free a nokia limia 635 like 5 years ago and still use it today, i just had to change the bettery few month ago (with i got for free luckily) and it made me think i should perhaps change it and at the same time chose a software that respect my freedom
so i'm looking for a phone lineageOS compatible that can hold a week without need to charge that look nice and slick without costing too much

opinions on the zenfone 5z? It's on sale on the asus site at 390€. Worth it for the latest snapdragon?

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This is autism levels of design

Yes, it's better than the pocotrash but you can't use gcam stable on it

I'm saving the fuck up for the XZ4, it'll be the best flagship of 2019
>Huawei is chinked with notches and meme micro SD cards
>Samsung shit the bed with pill notches
>Google and other brands are shit
>lol at chinkphones like Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi
>meanwhile the XZ4 will be packed with the latest tech, NO NOTCH, possibly the 3.5mm jack and finally some decent cameras

Forgot to mention another point in the XZ4's favor
>flat display
fi-fucking-nally.

Friendly reminder for budget conscious anons: buy a 2/3 year old flagship, and perhaps a custom rom of your choice

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>PLEMIUM
holy kek

Why did Samsung changed the design so drastically?

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Some nonsense about reinventing the wheel

You should just get a Pocophone instead, cheaper and better

Good luck buying non-chink version

did Tinder stop working with Fake GPS?

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Everyone who prefers this over the S9+ style bezels should be shot

wew lad this is shit
hope they didn't fuck up the A series too
was going to get a s10 for the vrmeme too, damn shame

BASED

Forgot to add
can only hope the "budget" s10 with flat screen is spared this notch faggotry

the fuck does thus even mean?

Buy the XZ4 retard

What're we buying today boys?

pls reply with what you own and if you have your eyes set on anything soon.

own OnePlus 6T, looking to buy OnePlus 10T that holographic screen looks dope

Going botnet free
What email app do i use?

good question

>Yes, it's better than the pocotrash
How so? It has zero custom ROM support, 700 mAh of battery capacity less and is available God knows where.
>lol at chinkphones like Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi
>lol at [insert brand name here]
Great argument. Oppo and Vivo aren't a thing outside of China really, but what exactly is wrong with Xiaomi and how can you even begin to pretend it's going to be "the best upcoming flagship"?

So my m8 is selling her LG G6 to me for 90$.
821 and 4GB of ram.
Were there any know issues with the G6? Why is the price so low in the used market compared to lets say an s8 or pixel.

I have oneplus 3, jsut put an order on Note 9, waiting for delivery. Mintues becoming hours. Hours are becoming days.... days becoming weeks....

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Won't any half decent case wind up covering part of the phone? Jesus this shit is stupid. I'm definitely gonna ride out my Note 9 for as long as possible.

>Why is the price so low in the used market compared to lets say an s8 or pixel.
Because virtually every single one of their flagship devices have been plagued by faulty internals and bootloops. The most recent reports were for the G7. There are videos on YouTube.

Is MIUI on Xiaomeme that bad, is it worth it to deal with the bootloader unlocking bullshit and flash Lineage?

What's a good phone that's already out and won't cost me more than $300 cash? I'm sick of falling for the brand new phone only $30 per month meme and the S8 I have right now is complete trash.

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What is essential in a smartphone? I have never owned a smartphone and my 8-9 year old Nokia dumbphone has just started shitting itself so I might as well get with the times, sorry for retard posting but what do I need to know in order to make sure I don't end up buying a heap of shit unusable illuminati devil phone?

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possibly a pixel 2 for that

Pocophone

No, it's fine. There isn't any real difference.

Hardware: you want Snapdragon 845, or at least one-generation old SD 835
At least 4 Gigs of RAM
At least 3000mha battery
Display: LCD is cheaper, AMOLED looks nicer
~400 ppi(pixel per inch) resolution is plenty

Why wouldn't you do it when you have the option? It's not difficult.
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>look up phones with those specs
>£700 - £1250
Might just buy another dumbphone desu

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where the fuck are you looking
Pocophone has all those specs and is 300 moneys
OP 6 ~420 moneys
I can name 10 more for sub 500

>chinkphone
Will the Chinese government be spying on me?

Yes, since you are very important person

don't listen to that retard because the Pocophone is the only new phone that has that hardware in your price range and if you're in the states, don't even bother because thebxoverage will suck with it
what's essential is that you have AT LEAST the following:
>3GB RAM
>32GB Storage w/ mSD support, 64GB without
>1080p resolution
>Snapdragon 625 or higher
>headphone jack is optional as a lot of them are ditching it
that's about it

>chinkphone
As virtually every phone at this point?
>Will the Chinese government be spying on me?
Why care about this when the custom ROM support for the Poco is as good as it gets?

>update miui
>it rearranges the shortcuts for wifi, torch, silent mode etc
>can't remember the specific keyword you need to look it up in the settings
ridiculous, someone tell me how to rearrange them

Apple wins again. It looks more elegant than these half-assed solutions.

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>It looks more elegant than these half-assed solutions.
>can't even hide the notch
It sure is better.

They are getting raped left and right by Huawei and Oppo so if the S10 has the same exact design as the S9 no one will buy them.

Don't care, Face ID is based.

that's how you get better picture quality while staying in a small form factor, of all the things you could gripe about you want form over function

>Face ID is based
I don't think so.
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youtu.be/zcBreZAl95E
And not only is this whole mechanism lackluster, you don't know where these face scans are stored.

Fair enough. It seems like the pocophone might be in my future, especially for that price.

Don't call me retard you dumb fuck, you don't even know what you're talking about.
Here's 15 phones with SD 835/845, 4+ gb RAM, 3000+ battery, 400+ ppi for under $460
Now go fuck yourself

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Nokia 8 is 300 now

Or maybe not, since I have sprint...

Can I do any better than Honor 9-lite for £130 ($165)?

I know this thread is called a SMARTPHONE general, but maybe you can recommend me something cheap and usable, not necessarily smartphone? Lets say I'm a construction worker with big, clumsy and often dirty fingers and my phone can't be big piece of glass

I'm looking for
>physical keyboard
>durable
>ability to browse web

Is there even anything produced today for people like me?

Can someone recommend a non chinkphone which doesn't have a notch and has dual SIM? I wanted to buy the Nokia 8 Sirocco but it only has one SIM slot

What's a gud temp phone around $100? I'm fine with used or refurb.

S9+

There's durable smartphones

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this. also look into CAT brand in general, they have sub $100 phones with keyboard too

Is the S8 any good? All the people I know who have it dislike it but they are just normies. What does Jow Forums think?

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>locked down
>just about average battery life
Nothing special.

Even for unlocked only phones there is usually a chinese and a global version, with the chinese one having an artificially gimped down set of frequency bands, which means that the data/voice performance will range from slightly to none at all, depending on which country you want to use it on.
It's been true for a while aswell that global versions get out of production/stock extremely fast (often not even a year after release), while the chinese ones remain available for considerably longer.
Of course all of this is a non issue if you're planning on using a custom kernel+rom, because then modding in extra bands that were blocked on the software level becomes possible, if not trivial.

Best glass screen protector? I'm using a Note 9.

Any Mi A2 (preferably lite) owners here want to give me an honest opinion?

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That's selling for more than $800 in my country. Is there nothing cheaper?

bought the zenfone 5z, hope it's good then :3

US Cricket fag here, expecting my Mix 2s tomorrow (Global Ver) from Amazon.

What are some software tweaks I need to know about? Im retarded when it comes to flashing etc.

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Install GCam

How does one do that? Just install the apk? Where can I get a gcam apk?

xda-developers

Can you spoonfeed a brainlet?

Whats your budget and what are you planning to do with it?

xda-developers + Gcam, literally the first link

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Im sorry user... but t-thanks.

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>pretend it's going to be "the best upcoming flagship"?
It's the best because NO NOTCH
fuck all notches honestly

Buy the XZ1 retard, it's 200 quid.

XZ1

If you are looking xiaomeme go for the redmi note5 pro.

So when will the Mi Mix 3 is eventually released? What's with the delay?

It's already out in China. Global launch expected later this month or January by the latest.

Forgot to mention, Xiaomi is having an event in New York on 8th of December, maybe global launch of Mix 3 will be then.

I think pricing and availability are far more important. At least the notch can be hidden od Android.

Nokia 8

CAT phones
the galaxy s active line (i think the s9 active is coming soon)
some chinkphones with good specs that are built to take throws or whatever
OR just get a really good phone case (5$ bootleg uag cases on my old s3 saved it from roof falls and falling on concrete)

What does it mean if my phone keeps restarting by itself?

updates, bootloop, faulty battery it could mean a lot of things
how often does it restart

Whats the minimum amount of RAM someone should have in a smartphone these days?

No pubg/gaming of any kind

I just want to run google maps with least amount of lag