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Have you considered librem 5 or pinephone?

i don't want anything niche

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Niche is necessary if you want made in America and some semblance of privacy.

Sounds like you want to pay $1200 for a phone that will last 2 years. Good luck!

2 years? i don't rape my phones

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librem 5 librem 5 $1,999.00 !?!?

And the camera is considered old in 2014...

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5-usa/

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Of course China is gonna be cheaper

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Assembled in America with parts made in Korea for SamsDong and China for iFaggots

Bruh it's made by Americans. Try paying $0.20 an hour to Americans

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That's why all my guns are made in America :)

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Afaik, those are still hackerish.

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If you can't remove the battery, you can't truly turn it off.

not worried about that

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I guess you could also put it in a Faraday box.

Neither. I have the s20 ultra. So many regrets.

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In the 90's I bought Macs cause I hated PC. In the 00's I bought Samsung cause I hate Apple.

Now I hate both.

i already hate both... that's why i'm trying to figure it out

Not galaxy.

Seriously, anything but.

say why

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Bixby. Samsung's attempt at siri/alexa/heygoogle. Unable to complete even the most basic tasks. The first command it tells you to try is It goes downhill from there.

Camera. Super saturated, heavily smoothed, slow to answer the tap to actually take the shot. Switching to "night mode" or whatever it's called makes better pictures, but is even slower. The most common response is "use a hacked gcam to make it less post-processed looking. But every update breaks gcam.

Battery. 4-5 hours from 100% to 15% with it sitting unused in my coat pocket at work.

Battery. Gets hot if plugged in while the screen is on.

Bluetooth. Won't connect to a vw passat radio or a vw jetta radio because of "known bt5 backward compatibility issues with vw radios."

Bluetooth. Won't connect to bose qc35 headphones because of "known bt5 backward compatibility issues with bose."

Texting. Most likely a verizon issue, but texts show up in "clusters" of multiple texts, sometimes hours after they were sent.

Wireless charging. Only works if the phone is removed from its case and placed horizontally on the charger.

Sim card. I've had to replace mine twice. Verizon says that's what's causing all of the other issues. They can't explain why the sim card needs replaced, or why replacing the sim card (and a factory reset) only makes texting work right for a day or two.

I installed amazon music on it for about a day, uninstalled it because samsung thought that was causing the bluetooth issues.

I tried installing waze a few days ago, but took it off yesterday. It told me to "proceed to the highlighted route" the entire time I was driving. The highlighted route was the street in front of my destination, 2 hours away.

After no fewer than seven factory resets in the first 3 months I owned it, I stopped installing apps on it. Waze and amazon music are the only two I've tried in nearly a year. I removed them both, and now only have the 18 pre-installed apps. No calculator, no games. And it still can't hang.

It is a bad phone, with broken features, and shitty support.

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Waze is SHIT. I've never rage quit something so hard.

Phones get hot. Especially while charging, but even with just the screen on. Either you don't feel the heat because the phone is insulating it inside, or you feel it and it's not all stuck inside.

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I got the iPhone 12 pro max. Idk I just always had an iPhone. The battery lasts forever and the lidar is pretty neat

do you ever send dick pics directly to apple?

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You know Apple doesn’t give up your information the same way Google does. They sort of protect your privacy. That’s why their maps system sucks.

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don't get anything with 5g

any particular reason why?

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5g technology is being pushed aggressively even though it doesn't fulfill any of the public's needs. 4G is more than fast enough. So what needs does 5G fulfill?

5G may be used to monitor or harm users.

Also, it seems it has killed some trees. If it can kill a tree, what damage will it do to a human?

i think we're all just fucked if that's really the case... the cunts have already put 5g towers up everywhere.

Samsung is the same crap as Apple.

Get yourself a Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact.

If you can find it, it's the best value for money you can have.

i'd rather rape a koala high in a gumtree than buy a sony phone that almost no one has

Why do you care what people have

for the same reason i don't want some odd make of car that no one drives.