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What smartphones are people using nowadays? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by flashgnash@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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My phone's just bitten the dust and now I need to look for a new one again.

Thought I'd test the waters and see what kinds of phones people on here are using nowadays and what for, what features set them apart if any etc

Bonus points if anyone's managed to get mainline linux running on them either via KVM or bare metal

Edit: Thanks for everyone who talked about their choices of phone, I am now writing this on a fairphone 4 and am quite happy with it so far.

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[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

I'm leaning towards samsung again because of DeX and an absurdly high battery life in a couple of their phones, but samsung don't seem much better than apple as a company

[-] JSocial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago

So. Much. Bloat. Otherwise good.

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

Canta + Shizuku to get rid of bloat without root. It's great! I have no bloat left on my Samsung phone now.

[-] tim-clark@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

The s22 ultra has amazing battery life. Prefer Samsung now (flagship only) over any others. They work very well, great battery, and camera. Can use it all day streaming and using navigation, still have 40% battery after 8hrs.

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I have a 22+

Why is the camera a bit shit? I was hoping for a lot more after I upgraded from a 5 year old much cheaper Chinese phone.

[-] tim-clark@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Mine blows away the camera on the iPhone 13 and 14 pro that I also have. Not really.sure what your talking about, it has better hardware and software than any 5yr old phone

[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe on the ultra.

The camera is better. But only by a little.

I took photos of the same country and switched one day. The picture quality made me hard to tell which day I used which phone. My parents didn't even notice. This was on a tablet.

It's better I low light but not amazing. Looking at stars or anything dark is terrible.

Definitely over saturates photos even with the ai off. I have to drag the brightness down pretty much everytime I use it because it tries to make things brighter than they are and it loses information.

[-] dezmd@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

/clings desperately to my precious Note 9

[-] aluminium@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

If you live in NA yes, otherwise you get an Exynos chip which have way worse effeciency.

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