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0 pointstayo422y ago0 comments

What android brand are people going with? I thought Samsung was the biggest alternative to pixels

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I just bought a Motorola Moto G73 for $180, was 50% off as precious gen phones often are once the new comes out.

I got a Samsung S21 as my daily driver, but just wanted to check out a non-Samsung one over time.

So far I've been very impressed. It comes with Google apps for almost everything, the Moto specific stuff seems to be addons you can easily ignore.

Even came with a transparent protective case and audio jack.

Performance-wise I don't notice any difference in normal use, ie surfing, pictures and such. I don't play games though, there the S21 would blow it out of the water according to benchmarks.

Screen isn't quite as good, but close enough that I'd be happy with it as a primary phone.

Only thing that's a bit of a downer is they only do 3 years of security upgrades it seems. This is a bit short I feel.

Haven't tried any of the other brands over time in recent years, just adding my 2 cents.

hughesjj2y ago

I'm real tempted to go asus because of how good their other devices have been, will see what happens this time. Tired of my pixels constantly overheating when trying to take pictures after navigating to a place i want to take pictures with the 4a+5a. It's not just a bad phone, I've inevitably broken a screen or submerged one and had to replace it (apparently the ip68 isn't fool proof either..)

resource_waste2y ago

I'll be trying Asus since they have been the best when it comes to laptops. They also have lots of nice hardware like Aux ports.

Google Pixel 5a... The last Google product before they went full Apple.

hughesjj2y ago

Yup, there's a reason I'm still rocking it. Spec wise the 7a legitimately seems like a downgrade, and that's excluding the lack of headphone jack.

Other than the palm pre, my first smartphone was the galaxy nexus. It's still probably my favorite smartphone ever -- samsung hardware and google software both going full throttle really is the ideal, but for some reason they just don't play ball like that anymore.

kirenida2y ago

Check out the official Asus support forums before you buy.

I got a ZenFone8 when it came out and was very satisfied with it at the time. Then, a month later, posts started popping up with people reporting that their phones just randomly rebooting and bricking. I think there were a few hundred cases reported. To this day, there is no official response from Asus. I used to carry a backup phone with me every time I was away from home for longer than a day because I was afraid that my phone could die at any moment.

Also, every update seemed to introduce a new bug that only got fixed in a month or so with the next update. So we had broken face unlock for a month, broken Google Pay, broken notifications, among other things.

I haven't been following reports for the ZF9 or ZF10, but I think they had similar problems.

To top it all off, the official unlocker / root tool from ASUS has been disabled for over a year by now, and nobody knows when it will work again.

All in all, ASUS phones (at least the ZenFone line) do have great hardware, but official support is abysmal.

spinal2y ago

I'm clearly out of the loop... What do you mean by going full Apple?

hparadiz2y ago

I like Sony personally. They let you root.

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magicalhippo2y ago