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I hate how disposable smartphones are
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Dont buy a fking xiaomi it fking sucks and the build quality is terrible and its full of random software bugs like the qr code scanner just randomly not workinf
If you want to buy a cheap Chinese phone get a oneplus or a huawei or a oppo instead
Fuck here I am waiting for my new xiaomi to arrive O: I've heard HyperOS is better and some models do support custom ROMs. I'm switching from a oneplus which I've loved for five years, the xiaomi seemed like good stats for the price.
Edit: It arrived. It feels like an arranged marriage, it might be my phone for five years or more if it holds up, I'm nervous to open the box. I need the ultimate device for efficient commie shitposting.
Mine's a Xiaomi and my only complaint is that MIUI sucks and the apps that came with it are awful. When I bought it the screen size, resolution, camera quality, specs, etc easily beat out other phones in the same price class. I quickly took a look at current phones and the screen in my phone is still like double the resolution of other cheap phones four years in
It seems like that was the main drawback to xiaomi phones I read but it sounds like they are at least trying to do something to help recently. I really wanted to stay with oneplus but they just seemed too pricey for me for comparable stats.
Edit: it also has a headphone jack though which I am beyond stoked about, don't give up your 3.5mm input, people, I have long missed it.
It is good stats for the price but I am ticked about two things:
-Battery life starts out good but goes to shit fast
-MIUI sucks and it is a specific pain in the ass to unlock bootloader. My other phone was much older but I only needed to pass the unlock command from ADB, this wants me to use an app that only works on Windows and then wait a week.
YMMV because my phone is the cheapest model possible.
Any of the non-mediatek processors should be relatively easy to install a custom rom on
I've been pretty partial to Xiaomi phones since their first release but it's getting to that point in the market where low-mid spec phones do everything I need them to and the Chinese market and the performance of my domestic currency are at a point where it's not really worth my next phone being a Xiaomi.
For whatever it's worth, changing the OS on a Xiaomi is a headfuck by design. Also note that if you are avoiding Xiaomi that means you should also avoid Poco, which is part of the Xiaomi brand umbrella.
I've had a Oneplus N30 for about a month and I'm mostly happy with it. I'm annoyed at the lack of a notification LED, and I had to do the ADB "pm uninstall" thing on a a few built-in apps to get rid of that idiotic "sign in to red dot club" or whatever the fuck it's called that clogged the top of the settings app, but aside from that I'm happy.
My last xiaomi was fine (lots of bloatware, obviously) right up until the battery started to swell. Luckily it was removable, so I ordered a spare and wouldn't you know it the "brand new" spare battery started swelling within a week. Very annoying because otherwise I quite liked the phone.