New phone. What to choose?

[Frick]

Well my s20 plus 5g is exynos and the battery is pretty good, even with pretty heavy use. Have absolutely no complaints.

As for glass phones breaking, just don't drop it. If you do, tough shit it will break. No screen protector here either, never used one and never smashed a screen on any phone i have owned.

And people just shouldn't crash cars, so no seatbelts required. Simple.

 

[SL2]

Just my luck. Those are the models available in Europe.

The FE variants are usually the exception to that rule. The S21 FE is about 6 months old. In english, not german:

s21 fe in Mobiltelefone Handys ohne Vertrag mit Betriebssystem: Android, SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Preisvergleich Geizhals EU

s21 fe -- Preisvergleich und Bewertungen für Mobiltelefone Handys ohne Vertrag mit Betriebssystem: Android, SoC: Qualcomm Snapdragon 888

geizhals.eu

I wonder if the claim that todays Exynos are inferior really holds true. Some battery life comparisons have been made between the S22 Exynos and the S21 Exynos, but those have different battery size to begin with.

Also, I'm hoping that TSMC's 8G1+ is better than 8G1 in terms of heat.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

And people just shouldn't crash cars, so no seatbelts required. Simple.

Bit of a apples and potatos comparison though in a phone discussion

 

[dgianstefani]

Putting a £2 screen protector on a £1k phone so you don't have to pay £500 when it slips out of your hand is obvious.

 

[95Viper]

Stay on topic.
Stop your bickering/insults.
Follow the Guidelines/Rules before posting. Read them if you have doubts about your post.

 

[Frick]

Bit of a apples and potatos comparison though in a phone discussion

No, actually. People don't drop their phones by choice. I drop my phones all the time. Dunno why. I often drop stuff, always have done. Probably something wrong with the ol' brain or coordination or whatever. "just don't drop it" is really unhelpful advice in a discussion about how to protect phones from breaking when one drops them.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

No, actually. People don't drop their phones by choice. I drop my phones all the time. Dunno why. I often drop stuff, always have done. Probably something wrong with the ol' brain or coordination or whatever. "just don't drop it" is really unhelpful advice in a discussion about how to protect phones from breaking when one drops them.

Maybe i am either really careful or not clumsy then, shrug.

I hate big stupid fat cases, granted they protect your phone, but i prefer the look of it caseless which is my choice.

If anyone buys a expensive phone, don't forget to put a big fat ugly but protective case on it.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

No, actually. People don't drop their phones by choice. I drop my phones all the time. Dunno why. I often drop stuff, always have done. Probably something wrong with the ol' brain or coordination or whatever. "just don't drop it" is really unhelpful advice in a discussion about how to protect phones from breaking when one drops them.

My phone gets dropped atleast twice a day, thrown about by the neices and nephews, takes trips down the highway falling off the roof at 90kph. No case and only has 4/5 dead pixels after getting hit by a cars bumper, seems some rugged phones are rugged.
Before this phone I had a Samsung something or other that lasted less than 24hours because one of the dogs thought it was better on the floor than on the table. Any purchase you make needs to be done with reviews sure, but you also want to take into account your own needs. As @Frick said coordination might be one of my issues that's why I bought an unknown brand because they claimed to drop it 1000 times from a 2m height in QC.

I hate big stupid fat cases, granted they protect your phone, but i prefer the look of it caseless which is my choice.

Mines both of those rolled into one

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

My phone gets dropped atleast twice a day, thrown about by the neices and nephews, takes trips down the highway falling off the roof at 90kph. No case and only has 4/5 dead pixels after getting hit by a cars bumper, seems some rugged phones are rugged.
Before this phone I had a Samsung something or other that lasted less than 24hours because one of the dogs thought it was better on the floor than on the table. Any purchase you make needs to be done with reviews sure, but you also want to take into account your own needs. As @Frick said coordination might be one of my issues that's why I bought an unknown brand because they claimed to drop it 1000 times from a 2m height in QC.


Mines both of those rolled into oneView attachment 247119

That is a chonk!

 

[P4-630]

Maybe i am either really careful or not clumsy then, shrug.

I hate big stupid fat cases, granted they protect your phone, but i prefer the look of it caseless which is my choice.

If anyone buys a expensive phone, don't forget to put a big fat ugly but protective case on it.

I have a galaxy S7 since 2016, using it without any case or protectors, have dropped it only few times on laminate floor, it's still as new.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

That is a chonk!

Almost half a kilo!!!

I think one reviewer said it can also be used as a blunt weapon.

 

[TheLostSwede]

I just decided to "splurge out" on a Pixel 6, as they were on sale and I even got an extra little discount.
Been having some weird issues with my phone lately and it seems like there's less and less choice out there, since I'm trying to avoid PRC brands when possible.
Was considering the just announce Sony Xperia 10 IV, but the price seems to have been jacked up quite a bit and it's got worse spec than my current phone, except the display.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

I just decided to "splurge out" on a Pixel 6, as they were on sale and I even got an extra little discount.
Been having some weird issues with my phone lately and it seems like there's less and less choice out there, since I'm trying to avoid PRC brands when possible.
Was considering the just announce Sony Xperia 10 IV, but the price seems to have been jacked up quite a bit and it's got worse spec than my current phone, except the display.

You didn't want a phone made in China so you bought a rebranded HTC made in China?

 

[TheLostSwede]

You didn't want a phone made in China so you bought a rebranded HTC made in China?

Please read my post again.
It's impossible to avoid buying made in PRC phones, unless you live in India, but that doesn't mean I have to support PRC companies directly by buying their own brand products.
Also, Google bought all the engineers and what not from HTC, so there's no longer a direct link there, even though the Google people are now working out of HTC's office, which is just down the road from where I live. Although HTC bought half of Gigabyte's office before they built their new office and doesn't want to sell it back to Gigabyte, who wanted to buy it back, as they needed more space...

 

[Deleted member 24505]

If the camera hump on the Pixel 6 was not such an eyesore i would have been interested, but i couldn't live with it.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

If the camera hump on the Pixel 6 was not such an eyesore i would have been interested, but i couldn't live with it.

I can see that being a problem as you do not have a case. I was looking at the same case as I have on my 3 XL, and it actually hides it quite well:

 

[Mussels]

Worst bug I had was my weather disappearing. Never saw anything you described.

Oh i had that too, where it vanished off the lockscreen/at a glance feature and never came back. Even with factory resets, my lockscreen never showed anything but the clock after one of the updates.

Do some research on what the google tensor soc is before correcting me.

^ Yup

Tensor is tweaked Exynos

 

[sneekypeet]

Oh i had that too, where it vanished off the lockscreen/at a glance feature and never came back. Even with factory resets, my lockscreen never showed anything but the clock after one of the updates.


^ Yup

Tensor is tweaked Exynos
View attachment 247265

Did it again, always like 3 days after an update. Also, was your phone on Fi or a different carrier? I do wonder if somehow bloat is to blame for the SD/HD issue.

 

[eidairaman1]

All I learned over the years is that you need good call quality and good battery life. You don't need to spend €800 to get that nowadays. I'm happy with my OnePlus 7 software has no issues, no slowdown whatsoever and I heard good things about their Nord series which targets the €400 price point.

I had a Galaxy A11 from 2020, an OTA update bricked it. I've had it with Samsung, bought the Motorolla G Power 2022 and it's feature set rivals the Galaxy S Line, while costing 5-6x Less ($216).

Samsungs arrogance is catching up with them.

Their SSDs are known to be troublesome just like their washers and dryers.

 

[sneekypeet]

I had a Galaxy A11 from 2020, an OTA update bricked it. I've had it with Samsung, bought the Motorolla G Power 2022 and it's feature set rivals the Galaxy S Line, while costing 5-6x Less ($216).

Samsungs arrogance is catching up with them.

Their SSDs are known to be troublesome just like their washers and dryers.

Don't forget their fridges

 

[r9]

Maybe i am either really careful or not clumsy then, shrug.

I hate big stupid fat cases, granted they protect your phone, but i prefer the look of it caseless which is my choice.

If anyone buys a expensive phone, don't forget to put a big fat ugly but protective case on it.

Yeah ain't that silly. All that effort to make the phone slim and light and then 99% of people just put in big ugly case.
I think the middle ground would be for the manufacturers make the phones little more drop proof where the weight and thickness would be somewhere between what we have now with and without a case.

 

[Mussels]

Did it again, always like 3 days after an update. Also, was your phone on Fi or a different carrier? I do wonder if somehow bloat is to blame for the SD/HD issue.

Fi isn't in australia, my phone was straight from google and carrier free
(Thats why i originally wanted it, as in previous years samsung phones were telco branded here. the modern ones are forced to be unbranded, with one app allowed to auto download after setup based on your SIM card, only.)

A security update broke it, and they applied that update to different models at different times. The problem is that once it downgraded you could never roll back to fix it, and honestly most people would never notice - they'd have blamed it on netflix, their wifi etc.
It worked on android 10, was broken on 11 and 12, and only came back with 12L earlier this year (when my battery began to die again) The two times i RMA'd the phone it came back with android 10, worked, and then failed when the OS updated again


Oh and this is an issue with android but specifically the google phones and their backup method i need to vent about:
1. New phones come with stock, older OS (Android 10, with my three pixel 4XL phones)
2. You had to log in with your google account to update the phone
3. You are asked to restore from a backup or start fresh
3a. You chose to restore the backup: it fails, because your backup is from a newer version of android. Factory reset to try again.
3b. You either chose not to use the backup or left the phone running after the failed backup, and it makes a new backup - erasing your old one.

Literally, unless you had a second throwaway google account and knew this in advance YOU CANNOT RESTORE YOUR BACKUP.

When i got the S22U i tried to copy my settings/files/apps across to the samsung... and it kept failing. Because the pixel was on a newer version of android. How uh, how often is that going to actually be useful again? Any RMA'd phone or change of phone isn't likely to have the exact same version of android...

 

[lexluthermiester]

Hi guys and gals. I'm here asking you for you 2 cent's on which phone to choose. In 2018 I bought a Xiaomi Redmi 5 Plus (or Note 5 in some parts of the world). It has started to show it's age and to stutter and slow down. I'm thinking of buying a new phone but dont know which phones to look at. I have been looking at Xiaomi 12X and a handful of Samsung phones from S10 ->S20 and even the Note 10 or 20 series. Dont know what to choose. My budget is max 800 euros.

I know I'm late to the party, but have you given any thought to the Unihertz Titan? It's an excellent phone with a physical keyboard!

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Here's a review from TechOdyssey;

I disagree with him on some of the points he makes, but he does keep things objective and show off the phone very well.

Here's Lon's review(LonTV) and he's a bit more positive.

Lon is a very objective review and tells it like it is.

Included both reviews to keep things objective.

I love this phone! Highly recommend it if you want a phone with a physical keyboard and modern specs!

 

[ramjithunder24]

Please read my post again.
It's impossible to avoid buying made in PRC phones, unless you live in India, but that doesn't mean I have to support PRC companies directly by buying their own brand products.
Also, Google bought all the engineers and what not from HTC, so there's no longer a direct link there, even though the Google people are now working out of HTC's office, which is just down the road from where I live. Although HTC bought half of Gigabyte's office before they built their new office and doesn't want to sell it back to Gigabyte, who wanted to buy it back, as they needed more space...

Not true, starting a couple years ago Samsung stopped making phones in PRC, and switched all of its factories to India, Vietnam and one other country that I'm forgetting.
Here's an article for you~

 

[eidairaman1]

Don't forget their fridges

Their appliances regardless.