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[General Questions and Answers] Spin_Dr_Wolf:
Hi all, I'm busy debating what to get next. I currently have a S9 which I've pretty much had since release and have been pretty happy with overall but am replacing as the battery is starting to show its age.

I'm not sure what to go onto though, I have been thinking about the S21 Ultra as there seem to be some great cameras available, I am lucky enough to be able to afford it especially trading in and the preorder ear buds are nice, but it still seems somewhat exorbitant priced for a phone, and bigger than i would like. I liked the look of the Experia 5II a lot though there is no AF of any variety on the selfie camera which i am using a lot more than historically due to a new baby, so will be needed a lot more in the upcoming months.

The specs I want are :

Decent camera with autofocus front and back, low light and video performance both important. Telephotos would be a nice bonus.

5g preferable for future proofing.

Ideally a SD card slot.

IP68 rating.

Are there any other options that i am missing ? Everything else i find seems to be missing the Autofocus on the selfie cam, or not really providing much more over my existing S9.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
For low light selfie cameras go for iPhone. The 11 Pro seems like the best bet nowadays from Apple. While rear cameras photos on Android are nice, the selfie ones are quite bad. They don't get that much attention.
[General Questions and Answers] mario1.5.1968:
da es denn launscher nicht mehr gibt denn ich Jahre hatte. werde ich mal zu iPhone wechseln.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
First, use English. Use a translator if you don't know it. There are bigger chances for someone to help you if you write in English rather than German on an English forum like XDA.

Second, what launcher you talking about?
[General Questions and Answers] Dracunos:
Hello, I'm looking for an upgrade on TMobile from my current V20. Long battery life, strong specs are important, and easy to root and work with, I use a ton of root apps.

So far I've been suggested the pixel phones, I'm considering buying a pixel 5 from Google (tmobile doesn't sell it), I've heard mention lack of bands or certain support but it seems to work fine for most? And it shouldn't be too much trouble getting a root working on that device on tmobile, is that correct?

It seems pretty cheap, are there any better phones (easy root, good specs, 256+gb, big battery) that would meet my needs if I was willing to spend a lot more? The note 20s looked amazing but I heard bad things about trying to root samsung.

Thanks for your time!
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Dunno about t mobile, since I live in Europe, but xiaomi mi 11 pro is about to launch in February. If it compatible with t mobile, it's a heck of a phone.
[General Questions and Answers] neutrale_puro:
Hi, guys, long time lurker, first time poster.

Currently I have a Huawei P8 Lite with Lineage 14.1, but the poor thing doesn't last enough anymore and also has a broken power button. So I'm looking to replace him, if you can help me once more. Budget is under 300€.

NEED

SD Slot

Good low light camera

Android

Hope of Future Updates

Nice to Have

Active custom rom community

Unlockable bootloader

Not Chinese, even better if not made in China (almost impossible, I guess)

Don't Care

NFC

Fingerprint/FaceID

Wireless Charging

Multiple Cameras

Materials

Display

Bluetooth
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
You could go with xiaomi poco x3. Don't let it fool you, only their headquarters are in China. All these phones are made in India.
[General Questions and Answers] jmsegarra:
Hi, im lucking for a smartphone with very good battery life and good camera and if possible less than 6,5". Im using a mi 5s with LOS atm but i need to change it. Dont care about hz, wireless charge, etc. I dont want to spend more than 600€ if possible.

Thx
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
You could go for either of these

Samsung Galaxy S20 FE

Google Pixel 4a
[General Questions and Answers] iOSisbetterthanAndroid:
What phone should I buy?

So far I've had very bad experiences with Android and Android wearables. I've used Sony (never again), Motorla (never again) and Huawei (NEVER AGAIN). Is there any good Android phone that receives updates for a longer time? I remember when Stagefright was a thing and I had 10 months old Sony Xperia L and I was eagerly waiting for Android 5 to be released. After I read about Stagefright I started to look forward to security updates and I went to Sony, they told me there's nothing they can do and it's up to Google to release a security update. So I contacted Google and they said they already fixed the issue and I have to contact my phone's manufacturer to find out whether or not I will receive security updates for my Android device. So I contacted Sony again and they obviously didn't care about me and wanted me to leave them alone. After that I purchased an iPhone 5s that received it's latest security update on 14 January 2021.

Is there any manufacturer out there that releases updates for a longer time like Apple? Don't recommend me Pixel because they don't sell it over here. Also, funny thing is that Android phones have worse cameras and are slower even though they have more megapixels and RAM. I also have Motorla e something and it has 2GB of ram and it's slower and freezes more than my old iPhone 5s on 1GB of ram.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Well, first, android and ios run totally different. Apple makes their own devices, therefore is easier to update and have consistency between updates. Android(gonna say Android, since there are a lot of different companies) runs on a plethora of devices, from 50$ to 1200$, each with their own customization, from different phone makers. That makes updates slower, because everyone needs to change the update to fit their own phone. And I am not talking just about customization. Hardware is also different. In terms of updates, Apple has the lead because they make a lower number of models. Apple releases 2-4 models each year, android releases thousands. Lower numbers of phones = easier to make the update compatible to each phone. Apple only appeals to people which have a lot of money to spend. Android appeals to everyone. There is no iPhone under 300$ in 2020 for example, while on Android there are hundreds. You want updates? Stay on ios. Don't come to the fun (and risky) side.
[General Questions and Answers] iOSisbetterthanAndroid:
But that's the problem. Even if I bought Samsung A71 which is $500 in my country I can't be sure that it will receive updates for more than a year. At this price point I could get an XR or SE. I want to try out an Android phone again, because they have better battery life than iPhones.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
You want to be safe on Android and have updates? Don't go for very expensive devices. The Android community view has shifted. The differences between mid range and high range are low. Instead of going for a 500$ phone that will get 1-2 updates, go for a 250$ phone which after 2-3 years, you change for another 250$. Again and again. You will have updates, security, in the same money.
[General Questions and Answers] GeTex:
Sounds more like you came here to brag about iOS than find an android phone

Google Devices such as the pixel had the longest update timeline with around 3-4 years support, The pixel has an international version sold so not sure why you couldn't get it.

Huawei devices are actually extremely nice and their current flagship by far blows away even the current flagship iPhone for quality.

All patches for OS, security fixes, and other things very much are in the hands of not only the OEM but the carrier to make OTA's available for the device, google is somewhat unique since they push their own OTA's without the carrier getting involved.

On top of that any unlocked device that can flash Lineage OS or similar have community support and security updates, my galaxy S3 is running Android 7.1.2 and my galaxy S5 is on android 10, even my LG Nexus 4 has 7.1.2. The original pixel has community support to 11 already and probably more to come
[General Questions and Answers] Blombardo:
627 pages.. wow.. I'm NOT reading all this.. lmao.

I'm the pickiest phone user on the planet... I use flagship quality phones that offer every technology that exists; unlocked to use anywhere in the world and unlocked bootloaders to get full root and change operating system...

Anyone aware of any companies that do custom designed phones? I would like to have one designed and made... When searching for Mil Spec phones I've come across so many manufacturers that I've never heard of.... would be nice if there was a wiki of every phone manufacturer on the planet so I could start looking elsewhere as Samsung isn't doing it for me anymore; nokia gave up and motorola hasn't made anything I found impressive in almost 10 years...

The closest phone today to what I call perfect would be the upcoming Astro Slide from Planet Computer. it raised 1.8 million to get it made... Maybe I should just beg that company to do some upgrades on their next model lmao...

Astro Slide 5G Transformer

The most powerful 5G Smartphone and Pocket Computer hybrid | Check out 'Astro Slide 5G Transformer' on Indiegogo.

www.indiegogo.com

Must have features that it has: (rules out s21 and most s20 / note 20's)

5g radio (the current best one available) with the mmWave antennas for Verizon’s Ultra Wideband 5G network = though I may want to use it on other carriers as well.

-unlocked bootloader

Memory card slot

headphone jack

Features I really like

-sliding qwerty keyboard ** most incredible feature to have.. I hate typing on a touch screen and loosing screen space to the keyboard

-Almost the fastest processor

Features missing:

no S pen built in

No removable battery

not quite mil spec rated.. I'd want mine a little tougher.

not quite big enough = 6.5 inch x3 or x4 wide would be ideal.

official info:

First 5G handheld device with full physical keyboard

RockUp™ slider hinge mechanism combines all the power of a mini laptop with the functionality of a smartphone

Device features a large AMOLED 6.39" touchscreen display and a 48MP camera

Astro runs Android 11 and also supports Linux OSs, with a multi-boot option

-- my oldest favorite phones?

My perfect phone?

Droid 3 -

why? It had

bootloader unlock

every feature on the planet at the time of its release

the best processor at the time of its release

Memory card slot

headphone slot

sliding qwerty keyboard

removable battery

What was it missing?

The not yet invented S pen

-Photon Q was almost as nice.. but no removable battery and way too small... I still own two of those.

Going back in time I was a HUGE fan of the Nokia communicator series -- clamshell phones -built in landscape mode with massive keyboards that would open like a laptop...

had they made the outside of it a touch screen I'd have married it... the n9500 was a normal phone on the outside and a symbian laptop on the inside... loved that phone.. still have it.. still works almost 15+ years later.. though its a shelf display now pretty useless aside from the games that I have on it.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Interesting requirements. Got a few questions about it

How would you use it? Simply to respond to some messages or browse? Or do you want to write a 3 page documents, start coding on it and so on? What's the purpose of the keyboard?

What's up with latest processor requirement ? Nowadays even a mid range is capable enough of almost everything. Antutu scores aren't everything.
[General Questions and Answers] iOSisbetterthanAndroid:
No, I did not. I just said what I appreciate in a phone! AND I SAID NO GOOGLE DEVICES! NO GOOGLE DEVICES! THEY DON'T SELL THOSE HERE! They don't sell it in Poland and if I wanna get one it's through some sketchy store.

Huawei blows and it doesn't blow away current iPhone for quality. I even asked my Chinese friends. iPhones have better camera for example.

Yeah, I'm not going to install a random OS on my phone. I'd want it to be officially supported. I went through that with Sony Xperia L and I don't want o repeat it.

Your advice is useless
[General Questions and Answers] JamesCaywood:
Anyone know a good new phone to root ? Right now I have the Samsungnote 9

Looking to update to a new phone since u cant root this one

And new good phone works with Verizon to root ?
[General Questions and Answers] GeTex:
Sounds more like you don't like what you are hearing, buy another iphone?

Huawei's Mate 40 Pro does indeed have the one of the very best camera's and possibly phone's on the market, but hey, at least your Chinese friends are the authority over actual testing.

Camera test: iPhone 12 Pro Max vs. Mate 40 Pro vs. Xperia 1 II vs. Galaxy Note20 Ultra

We had a grand camera comparison planned for a while, but it's only now that we finally have all 2020 flagships that it can finally happen. Apple sure...

www.gsmarena.com

I bring up the google devices because outside of it, you are going to have virtually no options, and if you aren't going to accept one of the single most well know built roms because its "some random os" then i think there's no helping you. Your requirements cannot be met from the sound of things.

My "useless" advice is reality of things
[General Questions and Answers] GeTex:
-5g radio (the current best one available) with the mmWave antennas for Verizon’s Ultra Wideband 5G network = though I may want to use it on other carriers as well.

-unlocked bootloader

These two requirements alone are currently not possible, verizon doesn't allow any device to use their 5ghz mm wave without being a verizon branded device so far and verizon branded devices all have locked bootloaders.

trust me I also hate the way phones have gone and evolved, from loss of replaceable batteries, headphone jack, micro sd slots, rounded screen corners, bezeless phones, curved screen edges, hole punch cameras and other non interrupted screens. i just don't miss physical keyboards as much.
[General Questions and Answers] iOSisbetterthanAndroid:
Thank you so much for your reply. They don't really sell Google Devices in my country for whatever reason. I couldn't even find Nexus tablet, which I really wanted.

Huawei is not an option because none of their devices work properly. I have their wrist band (Huawei Band 3 Pro) and it stopped counting steps and has other problems and it's only a week old. Do I get help from anywhere? No!

I can't believe you even recommend Huawei after all what has happened. I was expecting people recommend me Samsung phones etc that receive security updates for years.
[General Questions and Answers] :
To root a phone's Android an unlocked bootloader is required in any case. Hence you should concentrate on phones that either have bootloader already unlocked, or their bootloader can directly get unlocked by you ( keyword: fastboot method ) or their bootloader can get unlocked by you with appropriate OEM code.
[General Questions and Answers] Raiz:
If you're searching fo ra good phone to root, you must search a popular phone with an active community behind it, because root is cool, but at some point custom ROMs are just more exciting than root. Oneplus phones are good in that field, Pixel phone also. Not Huawei since they don't allow anymore to unlock the bootloader.

Samsung gives a pretty hard time to root users but still possible.

And actually your galaxy note 9 is rootable: Here's the guide on how to
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Samsung doesn't update their phones that much. Barely got 3 updates on my last Samsung device and that with a lot of delay. So far, my current device, from xiaomi, is the one that was updated quite often. For example, I like the fact that they update every system app, something unheard of on Samsung. Also, their customization makes rooting kind of pointless. If you want to go with Android, go with xiaomi. Again, with mid range devices, in order to be on the safe side.

Huawei used to be better ranked than xiaomi, but latest bootloader changes and latest ban from US and so on made it worse and worse. Samsung doesn't play fetch with devs as well. Xiaomi is likely what you could get. As a side note, their status bar is similar to iphones, would be a smooth transition. Hope you have fun!
[General Questions and Answers] GeTex:
Most Samsung devices I have owned got 2 years or 3 years of support rarely and thats about it, I've never liked samsungs support cycle since typically its 2 years features and 3 years security.

I really dislike my experience with sony devices honestly, i'd never recommend them

I liked most of motorola's before they became part of lenovo

Sad they don't sell google devices in your country

Huawei high end devices are typically really good, even google used them to make the nexus 6p. I have loved the last few I used, they even helped pioneer new tech like 5G. I recommend them but not the cheaper ones. I've never tried the budget devices.

Alot of Androids support and the reason I stay with it is community driven which allows some seriously old devices to get modern security and updates. I get you don't want to go that way but sadly there are no Long term Servicing built phones on the market for android

It's funny you bring this up because the market has a demand for midline phones with extended software support. a Big change was with Android 10 that security updates can be pushed via playstore and no longer require a full OS update to receive these updates.

Im not trying to be a ****, but I really do try and give honest opinions here, I've owned many many devices, my sig is only my "current" devices in ownership, but all in all I have owned about 60 or so different Android phones over the years.

I have a bit of hate for Samsung these days, but we also get different phones in the USA that are Qualcomm based, the rest of the world like you gets the Exynos based devices so I really cannot comment.
[General Questions and Answers] GeTex:
I always forget Xiaomi, I never owned one but i've heard good things, alot of people tell me they feel kinda cheapish though which turned me off, I typically buy Flagship devices
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Compared to glass flagships, a lot of xiaomi are made out of plastic. Can't speak for older xiaomis, but the one I got, xiaomi note 8 pro, plastic on his back is quite nice, almost you mistake that for glass. Either way, I have always used a case, plastic back or not. They could also feel cheapish because they are in fact cheaper. Xiaomi makes some part of their money by using ads and bloatware, lowering the selling point. All that can be easily disabled. But it isn't anything cheap about their phones. Their specs are very good and the flagships ones do compete with Samsung ones

Compare Xiaomi Mi 11 vs. Samsung Galaxy S21 5G - GSMArena.com

m.gsmarena.com
[General Questions and Answers] GeTex:
It's not bad, minus the usb 2.0 lol Im not a major MIUI fan but it's not terrible.
[General Questions and Answers] iOSisbetterthanAndroid:
How can I be sure that Huawei will receive updates? I didn't know Samsung has problems releasing updates. Thanks for the heads up. I was just thinking of getting Samsung.

I don't want Chinese devices and Xiaomi has had problems with privacy and they've spied on their users. I wouldn't trust those Chinese devices.
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
The question would be who doesn't spy on you for your data? That's how money are being made nowadays. Even Apple for sure knows a thing or two about your habits at least. If you want complete privacy don't use a smartphone. And huawei were the ones that spied for the Chinese, not xiaomi. With this in mind, go for the one that has the best offer. Given almost everyone needs to make a skin for their updates, adding more features as well, only Google and apple are giving out fast updates. The rest need some time.
[General Questions and Answers] iOSisbetterthanAndroid:
Currently I also have a Motorola phone, but it's a cheap device, so I won't complain about it.

I am glad that someone else but me has had bad experiences with Sony. I was fairly surprised by the negative experiences I had considering they have trusted products like Playstation, which I've never had any problems with.

Yeah, I'm not sure from where to get Nexus devices. I have found some sketchy sites with bad reviews and people complaining about the delivery and having other issues and I really can't afford a headache. It's also funny that Nexus should cost as much as iPhone SE but in my country both of the devices cost at least $150 more. Not really sure how the taxes in the US work, but over here none of the devices are as 'cheap' as people claim them to be on YouTube reviews etc.

I have owned 3 Huawei phones and they're pretty good. What I don't like about Huawei is what's going on right now and it influences European users as well.

Thanks for the heads up with Samsung, by the way.

I still get security updates for my iPad Mini 2, which I purchased in 2014, but my father's tablet (Lenovo) doesn't get any updates and he can't even surf the web with it anymore. It's that outdated.

Android has many better features than iOS and to my understanding not everything depends on Google. The Motorola I have has a very bad dark theme support. It's just awful. Settings is in light mode, phone app has light mode even when I have chosen to use dark theme.

I have never used Android 10. I'm curious how it looks like. Does everyone receive security updates no matter what?

The problem I have with many Android manufactures is that they have too many phones and the names can get confusing and you never know how long their phones will be supported. I really want to officially move to Android and use the same phone for years + receive security updates. Security updates are the only reason why I'd actually go with the iPhone. In reality Android is better than iOS in many things, but there are just too many phones + lack of updates and customer service can be quite bad. Especially in Eastern Europe.

I'm not sure about Huawei nor Xiaomi, because they've had many issues lately.
[General Questions and Answers] iOSisbetterthanAndroid:
Chinese company Xiaomi collecting private browsing data of millions of people via its web browser | Daily Mail Online

Huawei also spied on your data, here in Poland.

Poland arrests Huawei worker on allegations of spying for China | Huawei | The Guardian

With Apple there has been no such issue and Apple has responded very quickly regarding the privacy concerns. Also, I know when Apple is spying on me.

Shame. But now I know to avoid Samsung. Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
Agreed, that was a mistake from xiaomi. On the other hand, I ve never used stock browsers. Always downloaded those browsers i rely on. And some of these browsers have the privacy nailed down. Pixel smartphones in europe.... You could try to get one from Germany. Idealo.de is the website. Also, Amazon is reliable.
[General Questions and Answers] iOSisbetterthanAndroid:
Thanks for the site! Any idea if the phones there are unlocked?

Google Pixel 4a ab 349,00 € (Januar 2021 Preise) | Preisvergleich bei idealo.de for example this one?
[General Questions and Answers] Fytdyh:
They should be unlocked from operators.