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News:
Redmi 5 released but confirmed just a meme. Has a weaker processor than the RMN3 (Snapdragon 625)
Huawei V10 announced with a powerful Kirin 970 processor but not much cheaper than the Mate 10 which has better cameras
Rumours of an updated iPhone SE. What will it be named?
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Is lg g6 a decent smartphone?
New sony xperia phones (bezeless) one all glass one aluminum. The concepts look really nice.
A 4" screen with somewhat modern specs?
Guess I can hold out until mid 2018
Forgot pics
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Hopefully less blurry
what do i think of the new redmeme 5 plus?
Weren't these confirmed to be a pajeet's renders?
>tfw just spent £700 on a mate 10 pro
Is it unusual for people to just out-right buy phones without contract? They were treating me like I just robbed a bank.
Although, spending this much on a phone in one go will never not feel like a waste of money.
Did you pay with cash or card?
Where did you buy it?
I used to work at MediaMarkt and they only gain money from the contracts and the loans, but they actually lose money on every phone sold
Oneplus 5T came today
other than me not being able to attach the screen protector properly and LLSIF having fucked up audio on Nougat I'm enjoying it
So how do LLSIF work with long screen? Both my two main phone games don’t work with it properly.
I don't know why people are saying SD625 is perfectly fine, even scrolling is laggy on my redmi note4
on full screen you get a bezel with the classic buttons on the right, and if you pick 16:9 compatibility mode you get bezels on both sides plus the buttons, and the screen itself feels a little smaller
I did not notice any issue other than the audio, that is not related to the screen size and affects other phones with 16:9 as well
Card
3 store, mate
How do I make this shit stop?
>latest LineageOS
>tried both the stock clock app and the one from the play store
>both apps are excluded from battery optimization
>still regularly miss alarms
WAKE ME UP
I CAN'T WAKE UP
Want to update my S5 but don't really feel like spending a ridiculous amount for the S8.
Thinking of the iPhone 6S+ or maybe an S7 Edge.
Maybe a good chinkphone but I really haven't looked too much into them.
They get better commission for tying you in on contracts.
They make money on agreements not handsets.
They were just pissed off
>install pajeetroms
>WHY DOESNT MY SHIT WORK
>official LineageOS
>pajeetrom
go shove an iPhone X up your butt
I use a Galaxy S8 you stupid Rajeev
So I just got the V30. It's sexy like if Ultron and Jenny Wakeman had a kid, I'm just going to miss my meme screen and universal remote.
About to give the floating bar a shot.
Truly impressive
>want to buy a XZ1 compact
>still has xboxhueg bezels, even larger than previous compacts
>possible bezelless miniature Xperia just around the corner
Should I wait? My only concern with the XZ1c is the camera, it doesn't do well in low light, do you think the next iteration will improve on that?
I think the Mate 10 Pro is the better phone if you can live without the headphone jack. Has an IR blaster as well.
If you consider that Sony has been ruining top-tier camera hardware with terrifyingly bad image processing since the Z1 so around 5 years, no.
I heard that Google now provides an API for RAW capture though or something so you might get something out of it, but since I'm still on iOS 9 I have no idea.
I'm a bit of a stickler for the jack. What else makes the Mate 10 better in your opinion?
>buy redmeme 4x (not the note)
>update to shitty miui 9
>although it runs on nougat it has none of its features
>take a shit load of time to unlock bootloader
Question is: should I install the xiaomi.eu version over the global stable since it has the features of the Chinese version, or should I try a custom rom like lineageos? Last time I've seen my phone has no official release.
I'm so fucking angry I'm about to throw this shit against the wall.
S8+ is pretty comfy lads
I upgraded from an s5 to s8. Its worth. You can fit a lot more on screen with the s8, good for clover and stucc
Should have bought a Note 4
upgraded from s5 mini to s8, don't regret it. Have to get used to a big phone again though.
My sister picked up the normal S8 last night. The fingerprint location is still dumb, but not even a little hard to reach. Is it an issue at all on the S8+?
Also she is adamantly against fingerprint scanners.
If you're going to use it two handed always, then not really an issue. Otherwise forget about using it ever. I use pin anyway since I have a thicc battery case making one handed use impossible.
I always use pins or passwords anyway, what the fuck is the point if someone can just use your body to unlock it while you're asleep or something.
Can you disable bixby, or remap without rooting?
Why in the hell did they think it was a good idea.
Its about 50€ more expensive in my country than the Redmi 4x I since I don't give a fuck about screen resolution I decided it wasn't worth it. Although RN4 has lineageos support.
I mean Aosp extended has support for my device bit I don't know if it's good enough.
LG V30 or Pixel 2xl if I want the best pictures out of the camera and am willing to fuck around with raw files?
I think you can disable it now without root, initially you couldn't
Replaced my phone's battery. It had one of those internal ones which you're not meant to replace.
>order battery and replacement tools from china
>arrives
>look up online how to open it up, seems easy
>open my phone
>it's different than the online one
>additional layer of seethrough foil I have to remove
>arrive at battery
>try to pry it out
>can't, it's literally glued to the phone
>start tearing everything apart with the screwdrivers, scratching the battery away from the phone
>doing my best not to disconnect anything or smash the display
>barely manage to do it
>assemble phone again
>1 leftover screw
I will never get a phone with a battery like this.
good luck with that
should I get the Huawei P10 Lite or Moto G5S?, both of which are the same price?
Xperia X for 240€ should be good value, right? All the reviews I've read for it mainly complained about the retarded pricing Sony gave it at release. No NFC sucks but outside of that it ticks pretty much all of my boxes..
Neither
Meh, the phone's pretty old already
what should i get ?
It is an excellent phone if you do not play a lot of 3D games. If you do, then there are better phones out there...
That's the only real drawback I see, it still has better hardware than other phones at a comparable pricepoint - the Snapdragon 650+Adreno 510 beat a Snapdragon 625+Adreno 506, the screen is better than stuff you usually get at that pricepoint and same for the camera.
Having a tight budget is tough shit.
What Sms App do you guys use?
the default one
best phone under $300?
Does anyone know if the Moto z2 play is good?
any phone with high specs and low camera quality? Im ugly
Pulse is kinda nice.
What's your budget?
Razer phone
How long until the redmeme note 5?
Xiaomi Mi 6, S Galaxy S7/A5, Huawei P10
Which would be the best and most long-term for everyday internet/facebook/bejeweled?
Also are there better options with max 5.5inch screen and similar price? I don't trust LG after the fuckup that is G4.
Having fast charging is really refreshing after charging old battery with a PC
Whats the best phone to buy under £200 ($270) please? I'm looking at the Moto G5? Appreciate any help
G5 Plus > G5
Ignore the G5s and G5s Plus, they have no real gains in terms of hardware except "lol bigger screen" and the camera of the G5s Plus is - in direct comparison - worse than the G5 Plus'
I've been trying to find the best bang for the buck phone in that price region and personally don't like some of the drawbacks of the Moto G5 series (which includes the s models) - horizontal stripes along the display that are visible in low brightness, pink tint on photos, no compass are all really annoying and I could see me get pissed off by them more and more on a daily basis
I asked about the Xperia X earlier as it may be a bit older but dropped from its original asking price of like ~£550 to below £200 - you could look at it as an alternative
People also recommended some chink phones but they all suffer from the chink phone problems: Cameras suck dick in low light, vanilla chink firmware depletes battery faster so you have to rely on Autist Neckbeards cobbling together custom ROMs
Choosing a phone is about making compromises, find the one that compromises the least for what you want to use it for.
Ok thanks mate v helpful reply
Who else /badgoy/ here?
>bought midrange phone for £250
>SIM only £6 a month deal which I can cancel at any time (and offers more than enough for me)
>2 years later the phone is still in tip top shape, still does everything I need it to, battery has only degraded from 'phenomenal' to 'great'
>should last at least another 2 years, quite possibly 3
>even then, can use it as a secondary, dedicated business phone
>will do the same thing next time round - get maximum longevity for my buck
I upgraded to s8 over bnlack Friday and got it half off hehe
It sucked at first on the s8 but now I'm so used to picking u p my phone to use the back finger print scanner.
>weaker processor
>need a mobile game station to make phone calls
This is the state of smartphonefaggotry.
>250 bongdollars for a phone
>badgoy
Try 50€ on banggood for a phone that'd cost 200€ while not paying a single tax.
/worstgoy/
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I got a OnePlus 5t today... It was the wrong package, packing slip addressed to someone else. Now I have to wait for an RMA.
Is this what I get for buying from China?
you got a free oneplus 5t?
nice
There's nothing better for 400$ than SGS7.
Just try to prove me wrong.
Femanon here
I can't believe my first General post worked! How exciting
Regarding the Redmi 5, it's really disappointing even if you're not a gamer. Nobody wants a 2014-era processor when it is nearly 2018. Especially one that is worse than the Redmi Note 3
This was widely trailed as the successor to the Note line. Does the release of the Redmi 5 Plus mean there will be no more Note phones, or could there still be a successor around the corner?
>femanon (male) here
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LOOGLES AND ANDREETS BTFO
It is an excellent phone if you are a fan of the screen size and dual-camera implementation. Very good for the Price.
And we enter a new era of non-ugly Sony phones. Interesting.
Redmi 5 and 5 Plus are successors to the Redmi 4X - NOT the Redmi Note 4(X).
As such, they are an obvious upgrade to the Redmi 4X while being a potentially reasonable refresh of the Note 4(X).
I am personally not happy and am looking forward to seeing if we get a Note 5(X) with at least a slightly faster SoC.
That sounds absurd. A chinkphone with a crappy MediaTek should handle scrolling just fine, much less a SD625.
The choices are "limitless". Ask yourself what you most value in a Phone to help in decision-making.
If you don't feel like spending too much, look into the LG G6 or a Huawei (Honor 9 or P10).
Keep in mind, you can get truly great phones for very low Prices... (Super) Amoled might be important for you, so why not get a Moto Z, OnePlus 3/5/T or Meiz 5/6/7 Pro?
I ain't no camera guy but you can't really go wrong with either. The Mate 10 Pro, HTC U11(+) and Nokia 8 are also fantastic in that regard.
Both are decent. The Redmis and Mi A1 are obviously an option. Maybe the forthcoming Honor 7X.
I'd skip it and go for a Moto Z, Honor 8, Honor 7X, LG G5, HTC U Ultra and the like, whichever is most to your liking.
See above.
Very respectable.
There is unfortunately no "literally without a camera" Phone. It's an important feature on all Phones and as such keeps their Prices higher...
Mi 6 has no MicroSD, so not sure about that. The A5 has 32GB internal, came with 6.0 OS and has a far weaker SoC. The P10 is great but Huawei is not the best with OS updates. Not sure about the S7.
I'd say the Nokia 8, HTC U11 and U11 Life are your optimal choices, depending on budget/preferences.
>2014-era
that's the 28nm SD650, SD625 is built on the newer 14nm process so it's much more efficient while giving near identical real life performance
If that is you, you look like a chubby Winny Cooper. Thank god Kevin didn't end up with that indecisive whispy trainwreck.
U11 Life is not avaible here, U11 is too expensive and I want android. I think I'll get S7, at least it has quality control
That's literally the worst choice. Get the Mi6
The U11 Life just came out, wait a bit.
The U11 is Android, I don't get what you mean? HTC's skins are not at all intrusive IMO and there is confirmed support for at least Android 8.
Ditto for the Nokia 8, which is Stock as fuck in terms of OS...
>all of my normie friends dislike Androids so much that they didn't even talk to me when I had an S8+
>they suddenly start talking to me more when they find out I have an iPhone
Why do people like the piece of shit company known as Apple so much? iPhones are literal fucking garbage.
>iPhone 7+ doesn't have Bluetooth 5.0 whereas Androids have had it for years
>iPhones can't let you send images via MMS if you don't have cellular data enabled, but it works just fine on Androids
>only the iPhone 8 supports quick charging
>iPhones still use USB 2.0 instead of USB 3.1 Gen 2 or even Gen 1
>no headphone jack (done so people can buy wireless Beats headphones, and Apple owns Beats)
>camera protrudes from the back (what the fuck no phone should do this)
>shitty battery life
>shitty IPS screen instead of a gorgeous OLED display
>can't add music unless you use iTunes, or you use Spotify (both of which are botnets)
>miscellaneous bugs (see: text message that turned your iPhone off, I changing to box with question mark, inability to take live photos on FaceTime)
>can't zoom your camera in during FaceTime
Jesus fucking Christ. This company is complete garbage. I'm sure there are more things wrong with iPhones than I can think of at the moment, but what tops it off is that people legitimately believe iPhones are good.
Git gud.
I mean, git gudder friends.
>camera protrudes from the back (what the fuck no phone should do this)
>shitty battery life
Coincidentally what is making me re-think buying a HTC U Ultra (for 280e).
I mean, it also lacks a headphone jack but I don't really care.
>can't add music unless you use iTunes, or you use Spotify (both of which are botnets)
Wha???????????? Downloading Torrents and moving files onto the phone via file explorer is the only thing I know.
>Bluetooth 5.0 whereas Androids have had it for years
>for years
Galaxy S8 was the first android to have bluetooth 5
>no jack
>no sd card
What's the point of chink phone then? Not to mention amoled and a much better camera. Also I'm sick of phones overheating and lagging after 15 months because they fucked up soldering or something.
U11 costs almost 200$ more here. By android I meant I don't want Nokia, didn't know it had Android, will think about it.
All samsung touchscreens register a touch slightly before you actually make contact with the glass. Their phones would be perfect for me, but that fact alone makes them unusable to me. It's so weird that no one else is bothered by this.
I would guess it's a little unusual now, especially here in the US, where the average person leases their phone from the carrier. I've always preferred buying over financing anyway. At least you actually own it and can keep it forever.
I'm very worried that I might have gotten my phone a virus.
I was browsing the internet for wallpapers, and I will usually "Press wallpaper image on Google > Press menu on page > View original image > Download image."
This time however once I pressed "view original image", it immediately started downloading...
I checked the image in my gallery and saw that it was pretty large too (600-700kb, other images are about 10 times as small.)
I deleted the image, tried again (it happened again) and deleted it again.
Do I factory reset my phone just to be safe and sure?
Thank you for reading
factory resetting might not be enough, it already infected your bootloader. You have to buy a new phone, nigga.
Come on please...
Seriously it's driving me nuts, there is nothing on the internet about it either.
Yeah, it all depends on the Price, then... If you can tolerate its flaws the U Ultra is pretty decent and should be quite cheap now (hence making it decent).
But yeah, the new Nokias are on stock Android. The Nokia 8 is a fantastic phone sans the kinda boring design.
And if that is your issue, you can wait for early 2018 - you'll get the Nokia 9, which has a 5.5" AMOLED screen or the rumored "Nokia 8 2018" with a 18:9 design.
I can't root my Moto G that has LineageOS. I have tried the su arm package from the Lineage site, but they don't won't root for some reason my phone since Root Checker tells it.
Is there any way to fix this, or is there another better method to root?
What do I replace my OnePlus 2 with? Kinda looking forward to the Samshit Galaxy S9+.
I want a good camera with great battery life and a 1440p screen.
Oneplus has a trade-in program
What is the cheapest 4k resolution phone I can currently buy?
I'm currently using a Moto X Play but since it has no gyroscope I have to use an old broken Moto G for my VR porn needs and the shitty 720p resolution hurts my eyes after a while.
The trade in values are awful.
I hope the iPhone SE 2 keeps the same design as the first one. Although I wouldn't mind an iPhone SEX.
I just got my first ever smartphone (LG Phoenix 3) and it comes with all sorts of system apps I'll never use. Is there any hard in using third party apps to remove the useless apps? Will I break shit? Any other tips for a first time user?
If you can't root your phone then I would simply disable and hide undesired bloat, almost the same thing, but not quite.
And if you love your shit/fun posting, I'd get a Sup Forums app. I only know of Clover but I know there are others.