What phone you use as your daily driver? And, a discussion of them.

[robot zombie]

The audio on the iphone 8 plus is near flat, which is what you want
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Yeah, but then I have to have an iphone. I like where I'm at with android. Well, I don't love it. But I like it more than the apple world.

 

[Courier 6]

oldie samsung J2

 

[dgianstefani]

The se2 isn't coming out this year, it's just the current se with 5g and the a15, redesign not till 2024, will still be in iPhone 8 body.

 

[kiriakost]

Are you running the stock Android ?

 

[seth1911]

Im still with my passport and as second part my huawei with SD 425 and 2GB RAM.

I didnt see any sense to buy a new one, for what better pictures ok maybe but anything elsen than drölf cores and drölf gb ram?,
even the games u can play on a smartphone are a joke to real games on console or pc.

Even my old ps vita have real games and not this microtransaction p2w shice on phones.


A few years ago i though yeah the phones are faster and faster maybe they will becom a counterpart with a game lineup like ps vita or nintendo DS,
but for now 99,999% are totaly bulshit games.

 

[wolf]

My unlocked Australian Galaxy S21 Ultra just got the One UI 4.1 update and holy cow it's good. Faster, smoother, everything works so damn well, bulk camera improvements to boot, and more features than you can point a stick at. I swear even auto brightness works faster and more accurately. After having an S3/4/5/6 I swore off them because of the software basically and my lord have they turned it around, it's is a damn pleasure to use it's all so slick and well executed. All I have done in terms of software is pick a more preferable launcher (lawnchair), and changed all 3 animation speeds to 0.5x.

This phone is the strongest example of fine-wine I have ever experienced in the tech space, it just keeps getting better and better. I hope they can hold that trend.

 

[Mussels]

My unlocked Australian Galaxy S21 Ultra just got the One UI 4.1 update and holy cow it's good. Faster, smoother, everything works so damn well, bulk camera improvements to boot, and more features than you can point a stick at. I swear even auto brightness works faster and more accurately. After having an S3/4/5/6 I swore off them because of the software basically and my lord have they turned it around, it's is a damn pleasure to use it's all so slick and well executed. All I have done in terms of software is pick a more preferable launcher (lawnchair), and changed all 3 animation speeds to 0.5x.

This phone is the strongest example of fine-wine I have ever experienced in the tech space, it just keeps getting better and better. I hope they can hold that trend.

Hell my S22 ultra just got a 1.3GB patch today too

 

[wolf]

my S22 ultra

Nice! how is it treating you? The consensus I saw was for an S21U owner there's little to be gained, and it was mostly the camera but they're still so similar. I wanted to want it but ultimately for me it seemed like a bit of a waste of money, considering the wife is still fairly happy with her Oneplus 7 Pro.

If I was on anything from the year before the S21 series I think I'd have been all over that S22U tho.

 

[eidairaman1]

Moto G Power 2022 64G 4GB. Cost less than a crummy A11 and is by far a superior built phone.

Sammy screwed up.

 

[Mussels]

Nice! how is it treating you? The consensus I saw was for an S21U owner there's little to be gained, and it was mostly the camera but they're still so similar. I wanted to want it but ultimately for me it seemed like a bit of a waste of money, considering the wife is still fairly happy with her Oneplus 7 Pro.

If I was on anything from the year before the S21 series I think I'd have been all over that S22U tho.

the 10x zoom lens is worth it for me. even done a few 100x shots of the moon.

(Screenshot of previews below)
They're fuzzy, but no shit... 100x zoom, handheld from a phone without even a tripod? fecking nuts results.

What i gotta work out is why the motion photo is broken on samsung vs pixel, it records fucking backwards like nvidias shadowplay.

Press button, receive 2 seconds of the past. So at my sons school sports... i had 2.5 seconds of looking at the grass and 0.5 seconds of him doing the activity -.-

pixel, catches a second before and a second after, and lets you choose frames from the shot. I've already installed modded google camera APK's to get that function, but the zooming works slightly better on the samsung camera app.

 

[wolf]

the 10x zoom lens is worth it for me.

I was sold on the S21U by the camera system too, it's so ridiculously versatile. My only gripe right now is you cant switch between lenses on the fly while recording 4k60, only 4k30 tops, but it's manageable and still excellent quality.

 

[caineshiokaze]

I use the ZP (Hong Kong/China/Macau) iPhone 11 Pro; one key feature of being a ZP version is that it has two physical SIM card slots, allowing me to use two cards today. I use one card strictly for Local Calls and emergency data if needed and being my personal phone number I've been using for about 6 years now. I use another prepaid card for data.

I've done the calculations, and it's safe to say that I use A LOT of data. Usually more than 15GB a month, wayyyyyy more than when I compare to my friends. Previously, using only one SIM would result in me paying for a 15GB Plan at $250 HKD (32 USD) a month, which I thought was quite ridiculous. Having cheapskate Singaporean genes, I've set off to find methods to cut costs. Eventually, I came across the method I use today; on the main SIM, I pay $50 HKD ($6.4 USD)/month for 5000 minutes of calls and 600MB of 4G data. On the prepaid, I pay $33 HKD ($4.2 USD)/month for 50GB of data. Even when I include my current prepaid card for my Cellular iPad Pro at 33 HKD ($4.2 USD)/month as well, I'm looking at savings of 134 HKD ($17 USD) monthly. It might not seem like much at first, but it accumulates over time; the thought of having to total $1000 HKD within four months on the old plan seems extreme.

One of the main complaints about my old phone (iPhone XR) was the size; I personally felt like it could be smaller. The iPhone 11 Pro is the smallest Dual-SIM supported phone, thus I went to try and buy one used. Luckily earlier this year, dad upgraded to a 12 Pro, which was handed down from mum, who got a 13 Pro. I'm a happy owner of the ZP iPhone 11 Pro with little regrets.

Unfortunately, being a used phone, battery health has degraded to 83%. So far, it's not necessarily noticeably bad, I can still expect a bit of juice left by the time I get home from school (well, when we had physical school anyways), but out of habit, I always bring a power bank anyways.

If only Apple came out with a Dual-SIM capable Mini-phone; that would be beyond my dreams.

 

[Mussels]

I was sold on the S21U by the camera system too, it's so ridiculously versatile. My only gripe right now is you cant switch between lenses on the fly while recording 4k60, only 4k30 tops, but it's manageable and still excellent quality.

Thats fair - 4k60 wouldnt work on all the lenses
The new update doesnt fix samsungs motion photos, they still record way too long in the past

The photo: (Wowee look at mussels shiny bin)

The motion photo as a GIF: this is not cropped shortened or altered, just compressed.

Tell me how that's useful at all? Wheres the actual shot of the door i took?
This happened at my kids sport festival, with the entire series being useless shots of the grass


The google camera variant of this, does 1.5 seconds in the past and 1.5 after - so a photo of a person/group of people you can slide around before and after blinking and so on. You can also export any single frame from it, vs the samsung version that gives me no usable frames, period.


Edit: The thing is, this phone works fine with modded Gcam. You just need a config file to go along with it, that tunes it for the specific lenses available.
Suddenly i get working and better motion photos, as well as googles better processing...

 

[wolf]

The new update doesnt fix samsungs motion photos

Damn that seems pretty terrible, can't say I use motion photos but I do see their value and they should fix that asap.

 

[Mussels]

It's only useful if the phones set up on a tripod and locked on target, AND you time the shot perfectly

Googles version is for when you get the timing WRONG - and get alternate frames to fix it

 

[wolf]

4k60 wouldnt work on all the lenses

@Mussels So I can record on 4k60 using all 4 lenses though, I just cant switch between them while recording continuous video like at 4k30

 

[de.das.dude]

Moto G Power 2022 64G 4GB. Cost less than a crummy A11 and is by far a superior built phone.

Sammy screwed up.

sadly all my moto phones in the lenovo era has always died withint 18 months, irrespective of how well built they were.

My moto g first gen (made under google) is still up and running lol.

 

[WhiteNoise]

iPhone 13 Pro Max - Love it.

 

[AhokZYashA]

Asus ROG Phone 5s 12/256
bought it for the battery life, 120Hz screen, amazing speakers, and 3.5mm jack.

this phone has an astonishing set of speakers, it is very good
the camera is pretty mediocre, but everything else is solid, apart from the heat when i play some heavy games, but the included fan does help in dissipating some of it

 

[remixedcat]

Galaxy s10 plus snapdragon 855 here


Battery life is nice so far...


Got it brand new condition for 420

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Just got a Galaxy S20 plus 5G

 

[remixedcat]

Almost did the fe variant of that but a lot of ppl have phantom touches issues and other screen probs.

 

[Ferrum Master]

Almost did the fe variant of that but a lot of ppl have phantom touches issues and other screen probs.

Those problems are long solved. Besides being cheap shit ie A series in G series dress and higher price, I would avoid it either way.

Currently I sport XQ-BC52 and F926. Phones are boring these days anyways.

 

[Space Lynx]

had my galaxy a53 for over a week now or so, and I love it. man 120hz OLED is sooooo nice. its really fast for everything I need it to do. this also has an built in front display fingerprint reader, and i am loving it more than I expected I would... 4 years OS updates and 5 years security updates...

best $450 i ever spent. not sure why anyone needs a flagship honestly. battery life is way better than it was on the iphone se 2022 i tried.

camera is also way better. i popped in a 500gb microsd card and downloaded a bunch of netflix and prime videos to it, and its fast and without issue.


the only negative with this phone is Bixby is by default the power button, but its easily remappable to traditional shut down or restart in settings. Samsung seriously needs to chill out with Bixby though, who the hell uses it... lol

 

[Deleted member 24505]

My S20 Plus 5g cost me £320 in mint condition with not a mark on it. Not too bad, for such a nice phone.