/spg/ - Smartphone General

What's hone it's the ThinkPad of the phones?
>good community support
>easy to fix
>low price
>can be used for a long time

non-ironically Pocophone

good community support... until the pajeets run elsewhere in

Has anyone here had issues with their Droid Turbo rebooting itself in the middle of use for seemingly no reason? This has happened to me recently and I'm not sure what's causing it

don't want to pay for a flagman but all cheap and midrange phones have annoying shit like
>no notification light
>no nfc
>shit haptic and vibration
>bezels or chin or stupid brand logo or just plain ugly
>shit software
>shit camera
>shit mono speaker
>shit display
i either go for something super cheap like one of the redmis or straight up buy a pixel/iphone/samshit, because everything inbetween will make me feel like a faggot. It also doesn't help, that midrange devices compromise on all these things, just so they can put a top gayming fagdragon cpu, so kids can play cucknite for "cheap".

also i don't want to buy a bezel phone in 2019, but would also prefer to have a phone which can be used in one hand.

currently the best ive come up with is oneplus 6, and it's still not quite good enough (size, haptic, speakers, notch). 6T has better notch, but no notification light, and garbage fingerprint scanner

my last smartphone was nexus 5, which broke two years ago and ive been using nokia e72 + ipad since then.

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You're going to have to post quite a few sources for all these complaints. You also need to stop associating with people who make you feel bad for not indulging in blatant consumerism and it seems that you're aware of that. Last thing - how are bezels bad? Do you enjoy having to juggle your phone in your hand to not have accidental touches every few seconds?

...and apparently the best ultimate option would be iphone XS. But the price is retarded, and i would also prefer an android so i can debug apps for free

Buy a last generation flagship.

>Do you enjoy having to juggle your phone in your hand to not have accidental touches every few seconds?
is that a thing? Don't they have some kind of software dead zone to prevent this?

Should I update my one plus 5 to pie?

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they have bezels
>stop associating with people who make you feel bad
i feel bad because the midrange phones make me think
>oh man, i wish the speakers were better
>oh man, i wish the haptic feedback was better
>etc
"premium" phones have it solved, and in cheap phones i just don't care, since i only payed $100-150 for it

To both of you, if you hold your phone that your hand touches anything but the back and a bit of the side then you're doing it wrong and you should get a dumbphone.

so just resting it on a palm/fingers without gripping?

what if someone pushes you? what if you want to use it upside down while lying in bed/on a couch?

so basically impossible to use with a single hand unless you're in the 99th percentile of hand sizes... retarded zoomers, ho!

what is good list of "previous flagship" that is cheaper now and worth getting than current midrange? Is lg g6 one of them?

Cheap phones have cheap hardware and less features, wowie!
I fucking hate poorfags. You want NFC, stereo speakers, OLED display and ebin cameras? Get the S9+ or something. God damn

can someone fix the chinkpone recommendation? asus zenfone max pro m1 is the same price with redmi note 5 pro. the new asus zenfone max pro m2 with the sd660 is the right one. what's with this long name.

>they have bezels
Galaxy Note8/S8, Pixel 2 XL, LG G6/V30, Huawei Mate 10 Pro all have pretty small bezels with +80% screen to body ratio.

>asus zenfone max pro m1 is the same price with redmi note 5 pro
not according to Kimovil:
kimovil.com/en/where-to-buy-asus-zenfone-max-pro-m1
kimovil.com/en/where-to-buy-xiaomi-redmi-note-5

>oh man, i wish the speakers were better
All smartphone speakers are garbage period, so, why care that much? Just user ViPER4Android to improve the performance.
>oh man, i wish the haptic feedback was better
Even most reviewers don't care about this, so, why would you? It's really not that significant.
>"premium" phones have it solved
They also have a couple things solved as well too - like as much storage as manufacturer chose you should have (meaning no micro SD card slots) and no headphone jacks, along with almost always sub 3500 mAh batteries.

Mi a1, one of the most popular Xiaomi devices, right there with Pocophone
You can easily open it by unscrewing the two screws at the bottom of the device, so you can easily replace the battery (Poco takes way more effort)
All metal, gorilla glass, dual camera with 2x telephoto lens (unlike the meme dept sensor on Poco), which offers amazing results with Gcam
Easily replaceable screen, battery are the biggest pros in my opinion, you can find batteries all over the web (but I would look at reviews before buying:))
I ve been having it for over 7 months now, its an amazing device, Ilism

There's no reason to get a previous gen flagship when Pocophone exists with current gen flagship specs at midrange prices

top and bottom bezels though...

>Cheap phones have cheap hardware
Almost no single piece of smartphone hardware exceeds $70, so this point isn't really valid.
gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s9_costs_379_build-news-30147.php
>and less features
This has ironically turned around. Most flagships lack a micro SD card slot and 3.5mm audio jacks at this point, as well as superior battery life to midrange phones. It's not black and white.

>top and bottom bezels though
You rather have a notch or a display hole?

$80*

Normally gripping on the sides, you shouldn't touch the front. Also, if you have tiny girly hands then you should rather jerk my dick instead of using normal sized phones.

Are Samsung Notes/Galaxies as "secure" as iPhones.. As in phone is useless if stolen and there's no way to access photos/images on the phone without a password.

Pocos don't work in the US and they come with botnet chink ROM's. Maybe if they came with Android One..

the AI assisted settings are wonderful in Pie especially the app suggestion in the task switcher,you can even access the app drower by swiping up from the bottom. The new gesture buttons are a toss up though, and you don't have to use them if you don't want to. The biggest gripes I have so far about it is that few brands support the built in theme engine and app suggestions only work in the Nexus Launcher as far as I know. If anyone knows one that actually supports it let me know. The very best feature is the call screening but that hasn't gotten out to non pixel phones yet. I bet there are some ROMs with it.
I have tiny girly hands, Its a huge problem for me.
super true, just about any phone can have a SD 835 and up for a long time

And how is Android One better at all? Two years of promised updates, nothing out of the ordinary. Also:
>what are custom ROMs

My Z5 Compact fell off a bridge because i'm dum.
Are there any

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Jump off of the same bridge if you're actually serious with this post and if you're actually considering Apple because of this - "than being forced to use googleshit".

>being so dumb he drops his phone off of a bridge
>might as well go appleshit
You should, with those mental capabilities.

Hence why i'm asking for lineageos support you cunts
I don't want appleshit/googleshit but if i had to choose between those two i'd pick the SE.

Did they port over the Mi Mix 3 camera improvements to Mi Mix 2s yet?

Just kill yourself man
Buy the XZ1C, what's wrong with you?

>don't want either, both are shit
>need lineageOS support
>i'll pick a fucking iPhone SE in 2018.
Why? And what's wrong with you?

Well, at least two hours passed since the last thread, so yeah, possibly.

2019.*

>XZ1C - 129mm
GIVE ME ONE GOOD FUCKING REASON WHY YOU CONSIDERED A SHITPHONE SE OVER THE XZ1C OR I'LL RAPE YOUR ASS

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>XZ1C
No LineageOS support, can only see an unofficial build on xda but based on my experience those are always "bugs: you tell me" tier.

Because Give me a stable XZ1c ROM without googleshit on it and i'll get the XZ1c.

Any reason not to buy an S10e?

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A fucking hole in the screen?

Buy the Mi Mix 3 if that is the priority, smallest bezels on the market and works in the US.
From my experience even more secure, it's probably the biggest advantage of their software.

Can someone explain the flagship good camera meme I have an s9 which Is supposed to have an ebin camera but when I use it it does not feel crazy good, just a good camera for a smart phone, when zoomed in everything looks like shit, regularly using it doesn't look anything special

If you have a Samsung device with good custom ROM support and latest security patches, you are definitely secure.

Being yuropoor. The entire line will flop even harder than the S9 did here.

>camera in the screen
>still has thick bezel
Why.

Just use stock nigger, from what I remember Xperia UI was pretty good, not bloated like Samshit.

S9 didn't flop though what are you talking about p

S10e is Samsung's iPhone XR competitor, so they copied the thicc bezels

If you're an absolute tasteless waste of space, it's a good buy
for the rest of us, a hole in the corner is just disgusting. Look at the chin, a bezel that thick on top could easily accommodate the camera, like the XZ4 does. There is 0 reason to have a hole there apart from Samsung trying out a new gimmick since the S9 sales weren't great. This is IRREFUTABLE

not him but sales have been subpar
bgr.com/2018/07/19/galaxy-s9-sales-q2-vs-q1-bad-news/

But the jack, don't matter?

Almost every phone these days can take a great looking photo in average conditions. The difference is when you don't have enough light, flagships will still take a decent, usable shot where cheaper phones will have noticeable noise or "watercolour" effect. Possibly the biggest difference is in video capture quality, though.
As we reach peak sensor performance, OIS and good sensors will trickle down into the midrange, the latter already happening. At that point flagships will attempt to maintain the gap by introducing better zoom via periscopes or something similar.

id rather not have useless wasted space, yes

All smartphone photos look trash when you zoom in
the S9 pics have better colors and capture more detail than pics taken from, say, an OP6T. You're just a retard who doesn't know what he's got.

It's nitpicking, there's already shitloads of real estate on the screen. Goddamn zoomer, what's wrong with you?

But you'd rather have a permanenet black dot on your screen? And bezels are not useless, you don't want accidental touches do you?

Samshit cameras have always been overhyped, even by the shills in these threads. Should have got a Pixel 3 or an iPhone XS if you wanted a good camera.

>S9 didn't flop

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>black dot on your screen?
you prefer a giant screen-wide black bar instead?

Bezels today are minimal and especially so on Samsung devices and they do serve a purpose. What's not to understand? You're also operating 6"+ displays most likely and you'd prefer your phone having a permanent black dot like your little brother scribbled on while you weren't looking? I just can't understand it.

It's nostalgia (they got used to Android stock, phones used to come with bloatware that filled all the storage and made the phone run slow) and ignorance (these boomers probably mistake the different launchers from the OS)

Not him but yes, I'd rather have the notch and I see no problem with a small bezel like the S9 has. What irks me about the hole is that you have a part of the screen above it that is entirely wasted for no reason other than aesthetics (lol), the hole could have been just as easily pushed upwards to form a tiny notch. And this would all be somewhat fine had we not seen at least 3 different legit ways to remove the notch entirely in 2018, instead of coping like this.

W-what?

Best way to transfer files from my phone to my PC?
MTP is absolute garbage. I was thinking of maybe going for FTP instead.

What about copy pasting in explorer?

KDEConnect if you're on Linux.

the stinky chinky off AliExpress still hasn't sent my phone and won't reply to my messages
should I open a dispute or wait a little longer cause of Chinese new year

Why the fuck?

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My Redmi Note 4 was stolen lately and I loved it to bits. What would be the current equivalent in a similar price range?

I got a S7 but how do I turn the annoying things into actually useful stuff?

The samsung experience stuff looks awful for example, there's amazing amounts of bloatware, the game center button is literally useless and would be infinitely better if it was just a simple screenshot button and sometimes it randomly captures my screen if I want to wipe the screen?

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Let me repeat:
>MTP is absolute garbage.
In the old days it used to be possible to just access your SD card as if it was directly connected to your PC, but now you have to go through the MTP if you want to transfer any file through a cable.

how did you miss this?

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Redmi Note 7

>Kimovil

They made a new site for chinkshit that searches multiple stores, jesus christ how based
kissmyki.com/

What exactly is that? I can still connect my phone to a pc, open the directories on the phone and copy paste the files in both direction. Is this an apple bullshit?

Is it supported on Vodafone in Ireland? Better question would be is there a good site to check carrier compatibility?

isn't the note 10 coming like six months after?

kimovil.com/en/frequency-checker/IE/redmi-note-7

Currently only the chinese Redmi Note 7 is available, you'll have to wait for the Global version if you want B20 support... or just get a Redmi Note 5 / 6 Pro.

Can you do it in the same way you can with a USB flash drive? With a USB flash drive you can access the file system directly. With an android phone, you have to use MTP to read or write files. MTP is garbage. It's just shit.

yeah, and 6 months after Note 10, Galaxy S11.

??? Yes? You open the phone "drive", all the directories and files are there. I don't understand.

So is lineage OS dead?
What is the the current developed OS, Pixel Experience?

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>Didn't notice it was in dollars
Guess I'm retarded.
Also can the 100€ discout code for the new users be used too?
And is 6GB Pocophone or should I aim for the 8GB?

>So is lineage OS dead?
Why would it be?
>What is the the current developed OS, Pixel Experience?
There are very likely hundreds of it, just aim for a device which has official support or whatever custom ROM is available and you'll be fine.

>Also can the 100€ discout code for the new users be used too?
What are you referring to, the "get $100 of coupons" on the Banggood front page? it's not a $100 off coupon, it's $100 worth of coupons, pic related. Doesn't stack with the Kimovil coupon.

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