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What phone are you using? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by mikestevens@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world

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So, I thought I'd kick things off here with some community building.

Quote this post with answers to the below!

What phone are you using?

Are you happy with it? What are its best and worst qualities?

Which phones have you had previously? Which were the best and worst of the lot?

How often do you upgrade to a new phone?

What other Android ecosystem devices do you have? Watches, headphones/earbuds, etc.

Do you also use any Apple products, or are you Android all the way? (And/or Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, etc.)

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[–] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What phone are you using?

Xiaomi Note 10 Pro

Are you happy with it? What are its best and worst qualities?

For the most part, yes! It's got an extremely good price to performance ratio and has great battery life, great high resolution screen. But it's got some extremely annoying bugs... For instance, sometimes it just randomly reboots, or worse yet, turns off and then takes several minutes to boot. There's seemingly no discernible pattern to it. Sometimes the touch screen seems to get jittery as well, although it doesn't majorly affect usability. Some recent update also messed up apps colors for certain elements, so yeah, not great software wise. If it wasn't for the rather major issue with crashing I would have no problem recommending it wholeheartedly though.

Which phones have you had previously? Which were the best and worst of the lot?

I had a Redmi phone before that, before that I had an iPhone SE, iPhone 5, 4 etc. The Redmi phone was great for the price, similar to this one. The SE was also great, but all of my iPhones died in the same, bizarre way. They all started to crash with weird black and white stripes, eventually becoming unusable because of frequent crashing.

How often do you upgrade to a new phone?

When the old one breaks, basically!

What other Android ecosystem devices do you have? Watches, headphones/earbuds, etc.

None that I would call "ecosystem"y. It's all intercompatible.

Do you also use any Apple products, or are you Android all the way? (And/or Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, etc.)

Windows as desktop OS.

[–] mikestevens@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Haha, sounds like you're a pragmatic and financially responsible person! Good on you. We have very little in common. 😂

You must be extremely patient though, I'd have thrown any phone out the window if it crashed even remotely often!