Fuck phones. What overpriced POS should i get as replacement?

  • CoolYori [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Fun fact US carriers force manufacturers to change phones from dual sim to single sim. Most of the time its phones with a sim tray and they just shorten the tray, put in a blank spot, or use it for sdcard. They even lock out the esim inside so you can only use one provider.

  • xor [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    PinePhone… it runs linux, open source hardware… even has physical switches for microphone and camera and such, and a removable battery…
    Android and iOS are designed to spy on you.

    -written on an iphone

    • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      I mean if you’re going for a Linux phone, even if you buy the pro model, the OnePlus 6t is a better Linux phone. One of the only platforms that gets hardware acceleration running Linux. Pinephine is cool from a repairability standpoint, but is an objectively weak and kinda shitty phone with a weak processor, bad screen, and other such problems like that. But getting a good but old Android phone and running Linux on it is the move.

      OnePlus 6t being pretty much unbrickable is also a great reason to use it for any odd software over the Pinephone. While they are standard Qualcomm chip features, OnePlus doesn’t disable them out of the factory. Plus, the dual partitioning for OSes/updates makes it so that it’s possible to have both.

      Pinephone is badass ideologically, but cannot compete with any flagship from the past 6-7 years.

  • CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    My next phone’s either gonna be the best free one I can get - or I’ll pay far out the ass for a Huawei and figure out which carrier to switch to after I have it. Depends how my finances are doing when my current one dies, so I guess that’s my recommendation.