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What phone brand do you like the best? (midwest.social)

submitted 8 months ago by clark@midwest.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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*In terms of privacy, customisation, camera quality, and battery time.

For the longest time I have only used either iPhone or Samsung. I plan on switching to Android for the next phone I get, but I find that Samsung phones are often too big for me and put too much energy on camera quality (I don’t take many photos). I have started to look into brands such as Nokia and Motorola, and I would like to know what you guys think of them. Additionally, do you suggest any other phone brands aside from them? My biggest priorities are privacy and long battery time. Bonus if the phone can run LineageOS (I have excluded Graphene as they are only compatible with Pixel phones).

Thank you for any answers. Cheers!

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

xiaomi has awesome hardware, audio jack, sd slot, even ir blaster.

their privacy policy is bad, but a lot of them have official lineageos (and microg-patched lineage) and it works really really well.

[–] melooone@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Currently in the process of installing Lineageos on my brothers redmi note 10 pro.

Its a huge pain compared to my phone, mainly because unlocking the bootloader requires an account with his number connected. Then I had to install Windows to use their shitty unlock app, which the requires you to wait up to 30 days for seemingly no reason. Luckily "just" a week for us.

But yeah the hardware is amazing.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

yes the unlock process is obtuse as fuck! they do something similar to samsung and their RMM bullshit of having to wait.

luckily, unlike samsung, after its done they wont bother you again.

[–] SeramisV@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Its actually so good that the redmi note 8 (with lineageos-mucrog) I had before performed basically the same as my pixel 6a

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

also their subbrand Poco.

[–] Trincapinones@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Until their cheap manufacturing quality makes them stop working because of a motherboard failure

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

chinese electronics have come a long way, if you dont get them from the dollar store that is

[–] Trincapinones@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Check out the Poco X3 Pro motherboard failure, and this is a common issue in a lot of Poco and Redmi phones, the only one that are worth it are the high ends Mi devices, and at that price point you can just buy a Pixel phone

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

a poster is indicating its a software issue, caused by an update. im not using stock firmware and there aint more official updates to my phone. this seems to contradict what you are saying a little bit, you just looking this up?

i also had a motorola motherboard die on me, faulty nand, doesnt mean all motorolas have bad motherboards.