>Post a mini-review of your phone >Discuss upcoming and current models >Ask for help related to phones >Tell us how much shekels you spent on good/bad phone >PRAISE THE CHINKPHONES unless you live in America you shits
What's \g\'s obsession with Moto G5? Crappy specs nowhere near Xiaomeme SD 625.
William Hall
The Moto G was the go to phone for Sup Forums back in 2014 or whatever when it was released. You know what they say, old habits die hard.
There's probably better alternatives especially since Moto is owned by Lenovo.
Kayden Ortiz
G5 is old news now that the G5S is releasing later this month.
Bentley Long
As a phone dude and frequent time traveller, I find the Moto G2 is still the best smartphone
Jack Peterson
What's the best way to completely uninstall all of the AT&T bloatware apps without voiding warranty (and also for free)? On a Galaxy S8+.
Bentley Hernandez
bought an iPhone 4s second hand at New Year’s Eve. probably 5 years old give or take when I got it.
I plan on running this thing into the ground. how much longer will it live? got a spare battery too.
Aaron Johnson
Also, what's the best YouTube player that can play videos in the background?
William Russell
because Xiaomi isn't available locally in many countries and some people don't want to or can't order from China. The specs might not be the best on the Moto phones but at least they have stock android so they still perform reasonably well
Landon Wood
iPhone 7 or Samsung galaxy s8?
They cost the same where I live
Jason Wilson
iOS 11 doesn't support iphone 4s, consider using it until whatever iOS version it supports is no longer supported
Landon Barnes
>can afford a $800 smartphone >can't afford a $2 app to disable bloatware
Newpipe
Andrew Jackson
Fine. Which app do I have to buy?
Lincoln Hall
completely uninstalling would involve rooting the system
or you could use package disabler pro to disable it without root or voiding warranty
Brandon Cruz
Package disabler pro, or BK package disabler
Zachary Rodriguez
Why do new iphones have more than 1gb of ram? I thought that's all they needed...
Blake Long
Do iphones even come with in white or is silver the closest to it?
James Rivera
well that’s a long time away from now. apps aren’t a problem, too. physically, I mean. can I expect it to run the same 10+ years down the line? I’m afraid of it stopping all of a sudden like my friend’s 4 just recently.
Dylan Mitchell
WHERE THE FUCK IS THE V30 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Juan Mitchell
>I’m afraid of it stopping all of a sudden like my friend’s 4 just recently. What did you friend do?
Jonathan Thomas
no white
Angel Scott
Alrighty, I'll make the decision between silver or space gray.
Carson Gonzalez
nothing; that’s the worst part. he woke up one day last August and the phone wouldn’t turn on anymore. buttons are intact, screen is spotless, body’s in a case; no signs. it just died.
I’m sure phones and other tech last well beyond their projected lifespan given enough care, but for cases like my friend’s... well, it makes me nervous. the 4s is my favorite phone and I’d hate to see it go.
Dylan Mitchell
Has Nokia 8 dethroned Moto G as Sup Forums favorite poorphone?
Jonathan Sanchez
Nokia 8 costs like 600 euros mate...
Jaxon Walker
>Nokia 8 I think you mean Nokia 6 friend
Landon Wilson
Yes, this one
Nolan Flores
nah, Redmi Note 4 mate
David Cox
GALAXY A5 2017
>1080p >waterproof >4Go >2 days battery >micro SD >headphone jack >non retarted fingerprint placement and muhbezel memes >300€
Is there a better bang for the buck than this?
>Inb4 touchjizz Truth is it's got nicer than Android.
Ryder Reed
>4Go what?
Logan James
>list phone on swappa >pajeet immediately shits the listing up by lowballing
Easton Wilson
Oh shit I got confused with the 4G it's only 3.
Michael Barnes
Blackberry Priv or Keyone? I'm not sure what the advantage of the Keyone is but it's twice the price.
Kevin Powell
Priv is shit, KeyOne isn't
Charles Ramirez
iPhone SE
Luis Smith
I have some important files that I need to transfer off of my old Galaxy S5. However, the screen is completely busted. Is there any way for me to retrieve the files?
Colton Williams
>Galaxy s8 Will stop getting updates next year
>iPhone 7 Will get updates until 2020
The choice is easy
Dominic Garcia
Thanks, but what makes it shit? Is the sliding keyboard prone to breaking or something?
Christian Wright
>2014 >see the Xperia z3 phones >want to buy the compact one >buy it after researching it with sites praising the phone >FF to 2016 >sony gave us marshmallow without adaptive storage >internal memory is only 16GB >my 32GB card is now useless >root the phone and install a custom rom that enables adaptive storage >FF to 2017 >custom rom makers abandon the phone >new apps freeze after opening >watching youtube and twitter videos make their apps crash sometimes >some games crash after running them >battery barely manages to run for 12 hours with normal usage Fuck sony and samsung and apple, what's a good phone that can keep up with me for 2+ years and the manufacturer won't abandon after a year
Jaxson Flores
the SD808 SoC is a piece of shit and it's stuck on android 6.0 forever
Brody Reyes
The Keyone might get an update or two, but given Blackberry's recent history with their Android phones you shouldn't expect anything apart from a few security patches. The Priv is stuck on Marshmallow (iirc) forever and you can't unlock the bootloader so no hope for custom ROMs with newer versions of Android.
You used to be able to just connect it to a computer and it would automatically mount the files in /sdcard/ Marshmallow (iirc) changed this behavior so you have to unlock the phone and switch to file transfer mode.
Dylan Martinez
>Will stop getting updates next year You mean the year after that.
Samsung has a 4-5 year track record now of 1.75-2 years of updates. And even after that they still provide the monthly security patches for Android.
Complain all you want but Samsung is only bested by Google when it comes to how long after launch a phone will receive updates.
Juan Sanders
Thanks guys. Inferior hardware aside, this means there's no guarantee they won't do the same to the keyone right? Maybe I should look at something else.
Ian Hughes
Google pixel 2 would be your best bet.
Jacob Moore
So since my phone is on Marshmallow, is there anything I can do?
Nathaniel Murphy
Lg g6 for 450€ or samsung galaxy s8 for 590€? Or does /spg/ know of some other similar (read: flagship) specced ip68 compliant phone?
Jayden Reed
You could have bought an iPhone 6 and you'd still be getting official updates to iOS11. Apple is pretty much the only manufacturer that keeps their phones updated for ~5 years.
Your best option on Android would be Pixel phones, but they are only guaranteed updates for 2 years from the date of release and three years for security updates.
You could take a gamble with a Nokia phone. They just started making Android phones but promise fast updates, and their version of Android is clean so they have an easier time of updating. Even their low end phones are getting an update to Oreo, which is basically unheard of. They're still new to the game so it's uncertain how long of support they will offer.
Besides getting the screen fixed I don't know of any way to get the files off the device. Let this be a reminder to anyone listening to keep backups of stuff that you have on your phone, since it could be rendered inoperable at any time.
I'd imagine the same thing will happen to the KEYONE. They'll release on 7.1, send a few timely security updates, and then start slacking off when they start to focus on their next phone. But if you're dead set on a physical keyboard your options are severely limited.
Henry Jackson
s8 here
but i bought it for approx the same price of the lg, the LG is a catch
Jayden Kelly
Moto G5, Redmi note 4 or Redmi note 3 pro?
Noah Russell
SD 625
Samuel Martin
KeyOne has been promised an update to Android Oreo but whether Blackberry delivers is another matter.
Nathaniel Harris
Could I try and screen mirror the phone and change to file transfer mode from a computer?
Thomas Reed
That was one thing I thought of. But I'm not sure if you can turn on screen mirroring without having access to the phone's display. Maybe if you had some sort of display that would automatically turn it on when plugged in, but I have no experience with such a thing.
Brody Wood
Xiaomeme Note 4 SD625 or Nokia 5? I can get them at about the same price, the decent update promises from HMD are quite attractive and I'm quite interested in the thing lasting at least 3 years with security updates Which one has a better camera? Also, do the Note 4 supports adaptable storage? The Nokia's do and it's pretty much must with the current bloat apps have
Jaxon Phillips
Note 4 if it's the SD625 version
Nolan Jones
get the Mi A1, will get similar update support as the Nokia 5 and better camera than either
Jacob Bell
>the LG is a catch Non-native english speaker here, what do you mean by this?
Landon Collins
LG has shit hardware though. IPS image retention, bootloops, etc.
Not to mention their updates are fucking slow as fuck. The G6 is STILL on the July security patch and we are almost in October. So much for MONTHLY security patches.
John Howard
Convince me not to buy iPhone 8.
Ive never owned an pole product in my life, only Nokias and androids.
Right now I have a cracked redmi note 3 Pro.
Dominic Hill
Is nokia making android phones now? I just want a phone that's half an inch thick, has a pure android build like motorola phones, and a 15000 mah battery.
Grayson Moore
>iPhone 7 >Will get updates until 2020 >worse and worse every update >only security update >no features in the third master update
Nice try, faggot!
Josiah Harris
why do the chinese name their tech companies stupid shit like bluboo, doge and umidigi
are they literally braindead
Matthew Ortiz
You still need to go chinkshit for that
Grayson Anderson
If you attract a good girlfriend, sometimes people will say she "is a catch". Kind of like a fishing metaphor. Basically meaning good.
If something "has a catch" then it's typically a bad thing. Like a phone with good specs but bad battery life, the battery life would be "a catch".
If you don't care about a headphone jack I guess it's a great phone. I'm still using a 6S because I don't want to give it up. There's lots of stuff you can't do on iOS that you can on Android, but the limitations can also be beneficial (e.g. apps can't as easily rape your battery life)
Nokia has pure Android (closer to AOSP than Pixel even), but nobody is making thicc phones with ridiculous batteries. Besides some chinkphones, but they don't come with stock Android.
Cameron Hernandez
Is there any non-Pixel Android that is as fast and fluid?
William Richardson
>buying a product that is obsolete the moment it hits the shelf
Austin Nguyen
any modern $200+ chink phone with lineageOS
Ryan Howard
Hey guys, question in hypothetical terms
Is there room for a new smartphone in this crowded market overrun by google/Samsung and Apple?
If someone were to make a phone with their own OS, what would make you buy their phone over others?
I.e. What if someone wants to make a smartphone company to compete against the Americans and Chinks/Gooks
Lucas Taylor
No
Christian Campbell
My moto G is now 3 years old. I think it's time to replace it. What's a good 200€ - 300€ smartphone ? 4 to 5" screen.
Luke Miller
So, my current phone is barely usable and I'm in need of something new. Tried searching mgsm, but it returns me a fuckton of results.
Those are the features, which I'd like to see in my phone: -5.5" screen (or something close to it, say +- .5") -lots of custom roms based on clean android available (from what I've heard, all those xiaomi phones running MIUI by default have some problems and terrible battery life on Cyano... *sigh* LineageOS -either good quality audio output, mini-usb compatible with small DACs (I own FiiO k1) (note that some phones are compatible with it, bun only on stock rom (Note 3, for instance) -long lasting battery (3500+ ?) -micro SD slot, preferably with support up to 2TB
That's it. I used to love my Note 2 (which broke after many, many years of service), Moto X Play (which is my current phone) was the best I've ever had - brilliant display, batterly lasting for a whole week with over 6 hours SOT, super comfy, small bezels, great looks overall. Audio was pretty meh, but it was a 9/10 overall. Sadly, the screen broke several months ago, and the replacement that I bought happend to be some chink shit, and now the phone is basically dead. I considered buying the exact same model, but I can only find used ones in questionable condition, for absurdally high price.
I've found ASUS ZenPhone 3 Zoom so far, but the price of 500$ (in my country) kinda sets me off. I don't need those 4 gigs of ram, fast cpu and good camera at all. If I won't find anything better, I'll probably end up buing it though.
Send help, send opinions, send nudes
Anthony Harris
It's already been confirmed by Apple that iPhone 7 will get ios 14
Elijah Jackson
Hi beautiful people I need some advice regarding what I should buy next, here's what I'd like:
- Fast android updates (very important, my current phone is still stuck on Android 6.0) - Good battery - I don't care about the storage, everything I do is cloud-based - I don't care about the camera either - If possible, resistant and with a correct lifespan
Hunter Allen
Source
Tyler Adams
Lol no.
Ryder Roberts
prove me wrong you can't jit
Carson Roberts
I just saw the G5 plus and the G5s plus have the same specs. Main difference is the camera. How are the specs compared to other smartphones ?
Ian Myers
I'm tempted to buy in to the Sailfish X (Sailfish OS on Xperia X) if they let me buy it in Canada.
It's pure Linux... well... pure Linux running using a layer of Android drivers for the hardware. The package manager is zypper, and it is for the most part privacy friendly (although no smartphone really is). The thing that is holding me back (besides that it isn't available for a few days) is that I am certain that it will mostly just be a headache after using iOS for a year. iOS "just works", while Sailfish will involve a lot of tinkering. I switched to iOS because I was tired of the tinkering that Android required (for me), but getting away from the Apple/Google duopoly might just be worth it. But my IRC friend keeps telling me that Sailfish is dead and I should just forget about it. The dream lives on though....
Don't buy Asus. They stock their phones chock full of bloatware. Had a Zenfone 2 and ended up creating a script to enable/disable 70+ bloatware apps on every update (had to be enabled for updates to run, disabled when using the phone). The hardware was pretty shitty too, ZF2 had an intel processor which was poorly supported and the power button was an awkward mechanism that pressed a button on the inside of the case.
>fast updates Google Pixel, Nokia >If possible, resistant and with a correct lifespan I don't know what this means. You can search for water resistant phones (IP68) on gsmarena, you'll have to read reviews for build quality impressions.
Charles Rivera
I think the smartphone market will continue to mirror the PC market in being practically a duopoly (Google and Apple in phones, Microsoft and Apple in PCs). Perhaps some niche OS will spring up like Linux / ChromeOS are in the PC market, SailfishOS possibly, but nothing that will challenge the two main players.
The thing with smartphone OS's is that you really need apps for your platform to succeed and if you're a new player there's really no incentive for companies to develop apps for your platform. I don't see what company would succeed in entering this market when even Microsoft and Nokia and Blackberry failed.
Hudson Sullivan
If I want to be a big Jew, what are my options exactly?
Just my options, I don't need answers
Jack Cooper
Bloatware doesn't bother me, as I would install a custom rom anyways. Thanks for the info about quality. Seems like ASUS went to shit last years
Brody Jones
Just get a Redmi Note 4 and put LineageOS on it. Alternatively Moto Z Play or Z2 Play, use a battery motomod if the stock capacity isn't enough
Tyler Collins
Iphones get five major ios updates. Iphone 7 is on its second
Cameron Morgan
I was going to unlock the bootloader and flash CM (as it was called at the time) but there was a section in the literature that said how it would void your warranty. Combined with reports of phones suddenly dying after being plugged into a PC I didn't want to risk it. I eventually just sold it to someone who later said that they like the phone.
Ayden Clark
Why all smartphones have fingerprint sensors now ? what the fuck ?
Justin Sanchez
Congrats?
That's pretty fucking far from >already been confirmed by Apple that iPhone 7 will get ios 14
David Cox
convenience and security.
Kevin King
It's convenient and helps you act out the biblical story of Lot and his daughters. Just get your dad drunk and then use his fingerprint to unlock his phone.
Carter Perez
>reports of phones suddenly dying after being plugged into a PC Huh. I usually don't care about warranty - it's usually useless in my country, and even if it was - I'd rather take the risk and unlock bootloader anyways. I've also though about some of the new Moto... *sigh* Lenovo phones, but all of them have shitty screens (I'd take good IPS over amoled every day) and ridiculous bezels. I have no idea what went so wrong after Moto X Play. Yeah, I know that mentioned ASUS is amoled too.
Noah Jackson
what is the Note 8?
Luis Sanders
Ok i fugged up my recovery partition and now i cant get into it, although the rom is working flawlessly i dont want to end up with a brick in case i need it. What to do?
Noah Miller
Now that's some retarded english, should've read it twice before posting. Sorry.
Kevin James
flash the recovery image again?
Jaxon Miller
And is there a non retarded company that release a smartphone without this shit ?
Samuel Johnson
Curiously, the first time i did it the TWRP worked flawlessly although it fucked my rom somehow. Now i cant touch the stock recovery or TWRP, which is strange because i factory resetted the fucked up rom with the stock recovery after TWRP fucked up the rom
Adrian Martinez
take apart the phone and remove the scanner yourself
Jaxon Butler
Looking for buying advice. This will be my first smartphone.
>country
USA
>carrier
T-Mobile
>features
Decent all-rounder with great camera. Ideally with SD slot and non-shit battery life
>budget
Ideally under $350, but would go up a bit more for something significantly better
