Time for a mobile phone upgrade
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Yeah, I haven't seen too many newer devices supported with 3rd party ROMs.
The only reason I flashed our devices 3rd party was to get something closer to "stock" android and to keep getting security updates after the manufacturer discontinued support.
My GS5 was still getting security updates and running a Pie based ROM via Lineage until gravity + parking lot gravel = dead screen.
The SO's ZenFone2 isn't getting updates from anyone anymore, but Lineage gave about 2 years more updates than stock Asus... trying to convince her that a Pixel3 would be a good idea.
My Nexus 7 (2012) wifi got an AOSP build just in May.... not useful for much except low end videos for the kids in the car, or as an alarm clock
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I just want a working phone.
That’s why I stick with iPhone. Everything I do simply works.
Google is not serious about making clean android devices. And I’ve not seen a vendor yet that both updates and has a clean android setup.
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I tried a Samsung a couple years ago after being a long time iPhone user. The battery life was horrible and the "volume warning" whenever you had anything plugged into the headphone jack drove me nuts. I took it back within the 15 day return window and went back to the iPhone. I too feel that it does everything I have ever needed it to do.
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@brandon220 said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I tried a Samsung a couple years ago after being a long time iPhone user. The battery life was horrible and the "volume warning" whenever you had anything plugged into the headphone jack drove me nuts. I took it back within the 15 day return window and went back to the iPhone. I too feel that it does everything I have ever needed it to do.
Yeah, the volume warning is insane. It has no purpose and just makes the phone hard to use while driving.... which should be illegal. The Samsung is good enough that I can tell Android has improved to the point that I want to use it, but is bad enough to never buy from them again.
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@JaredBusch said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
Google is not serious about making clean android devices. And I’ve not seen a vendor yet that both updates and has a clean android setup.
I keep hearing that OnePlus is the place for that.
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@JaredBusch said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
I just want a working phone.
That’s why I stick with iPhone. Everything I do simply works.
Google is not serious about making clean android devices. And I’ve not seen a vendor yet that both updates and has a clean android setup.
Even Google phones? sure they aren't pure Android, but pretty damned close.
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@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
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@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
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@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
What is special in the Note line? Bigger size, stylus? As a non-Note user, I'm not really very aware of it.
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@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
That's about it for the note line, yes. They made some custom apps to use with the stylus, but they're all things available from the Play Store already.
I still like my Sony Experia AX2 Ultra. The silly name is the only really bad thing about it so far. Had it for around 6 months now. Huge display, good performance, camera is solid but not great. $250
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
What is special in the Note line? Bigger size, stylus? As a non-Note user, I'm not really very aware of it.
If you want to check out an older model, I think I've got a Note 5 sitting around.
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
What is special in the Note line? Bigger size, stylus? As a non-Note user, I'm not really very aware of it.
For me, it's the stylus and how well it's been done. I love not having to carrying around a notebook (the pencil and paper kind) with me. I can doodle and not kill trees, lol.
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@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@dafyre said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Dashrender said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller what are you using these days?
Still on my Samsung, it's not bad enough to replace proactively. I'm just not going to buy from them again when lower cost options look like they are going to be better.
I want to see somebody provide some real competition to the Galaxy Note line. A friend of mine had the LG Stylo 2 and it looked pretty good, but that was a couple or three years ago (or longer).
What is special in the Note line? Bigger size, stylus? As a non-Note user, I'm not really very aware of it.
For me, it's the stylus and how well it's been done. I love not having to carrying around a notebook (the pencil and paper kind) with me. I can doodle and not kill trees, lol.
The Stylus types that you can by, I haven't found any that work near as good as the Note's S-Pen does.
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I'm giving IPhone a shot. heard great things and after a while of playing and trying, I went with an Iphone XR .. -
@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
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I'm giving IPhone a shot. heard great things and after a while of playing and trying, I went with an Iphone XR ..Even with this thing out there?
https://www.asus.com/us/Phone/ZenFone-6-Edition-30/ -
@Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
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I'm giving IPhone a shot. heard great things and after a while of playing and trying, I went with an Iphone XR ..Even with this thing out there?
https://www.asus.com/us/Phone/ZenFone-6-Edition-30/I love Asus phones, in theory, but man are they hard to buy or research.
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@Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
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I'm giving IPhone a shot. heard great things and after a while of playing and trying, I went with an Iphone XR ..Even with this thing out there?
https://www.asus.com/us/Phone/ZenFone-6-Edition-30/That looks awesome. Seen a price yet?
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@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
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I'm giving IPhone a shot. heard great things and after a while of playing and trying, I went with an Iphone XR ..Even with this thing out there?
https://www.asus.com/us/Phone/ZenFone-6-Edition-30/That looks awesome. Seen a price yet?
Just the pricing here in Sweden, https://eshop.asus.com/sv-SE/zenfone-6-edition-30-12-512-gb-matte-black.html
8,300 SEK (roughly $850), which right now, buying in USD is a sweet deal because 1 USD = 9.8 SEK which is the highest I've seen it ever
Tempting, but still expensive. I think I'd do it if it did 5g. But it doesn't seem to.
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@Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@scottalanmiller said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@Obsolesce said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
@WrCombs said in Time for a mobile phone upgrade:
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I'm giving IPhone a shot. heard great things and after a while of playing and trying, I went with an Iphone XR ..Even with this thing out there?
https://www.asus.com/us/Phone/ZenFone-6-Edition-30/That looks awesome. Seen a price yet?
Just the pricing here in Sweden, https://eshop.asus.com/sv-SE/zenfone-6-edition-30-12-512-gb-matte-black.html
8,300 SEK (roughly $850), which right now, buying in USD is a sweet deal because 1 USD = 9.8 SEK which is the highest I've seen it ever
Tempting, but still expensive. I think I'd do it if it did 5g. But it doesn't seem to.
Why do you care about 5G? Aren't you moving back to the US? who has 5G here - really has it?
