Galaxy quest: Yet another sub-£500 phone comes to trouble mobile big dogs in the form of Realme GT 5G Over the past five years or so, a trend has emerged in the Android space where devices priced towards the middle of the pack have specs that can compete with the most aspirational blowers. The Realme GT, which launched across Europe earlier this month, is a perfect example of this phenomenon. realme GT in racing yellow The …
It's not the size in the hands that's the issue, it's the inconvenience of needing a handbag to put the thing in.
I go out wearing jeans, a t-shirt and sometimes footwear. I want a phone that I can carry when dressed like that, without using my hands, without adding bags or holsters, along with my wallet, my key case (which includes 8 multi-tools and around a gig of storage in various interfaces), a good pen and my car key.
In other words, not a phone that is 'more longer'.
Is it not the case though that virtually all modern mobile phones are actually produced in China?
(whether they're sold via a non-chinese brand or not).
I'm not that 'up' on the current situation, but what phones aren't manufactured there? I'd wager 99% of the components are anyway.
It's quite difficult to find out these days, but there are modern phones manufactured in Thailand, Taiwan (Asus), Vietnam, South Korea (Samsung), Japan (Sony) (and more).
There are attempts to bring phone manufacturing to the US, for example Librem 5 USA, but they are currently hit by a chip shortage, so you can't really buy it.
MORE RAM, MORE processor... "This means the user gets a fluid experience, with apps opening instantaneously, and zero perceptible lag as they go about their daily life." why cos developers are getting shittier, and shittier?
My Palm/HP Pre and Pre3 were perfectly fluid thanks, as was my Lumia 620, they had animations, just not pointless, needless, wanky ones. Or huge bloated PoS apps. /rant
Yes, nearly all my phones have been "cheap" too (not cheap in my view, but cheap in the world of phones, i.e. sub 150)
(only exception was years back when I used to do some Android dev work & had a google Nexus phone for some dev use - but still had a basic model phone to make sure apps ran on that too)
I used to be in that category too, but decided to spend bigger on my last upgrade. Problem is there's basically not much left at all that's both cheap, not filled with spyware, bloatware or both and doesn't have a mega-ginourmous fondleslab sized display to make it nearly unpocketable.
Well that's extremely daft to to remove part of the screen for a camera.
In the (not-so-good) old days you could buy (crappy) LCD monitors with dead pixel guarantees, as in you could swap for a different monitor should you find a dead pixel. Now they guarantee part of your screen will be permanently obscured?
so called "hole punch" front cameras are pretty standard (that or a "notch") nowadays. It's not "permanently obscured so much as just "permanently a hole in the display in the upper left corner".
Most of the time it's not too annoying or noticeable as most screens nowadays are in such a format that there's black bars obscuring the camera's presence. But sometimes when you have something screen filling it's VERY annoying.
I won't touch Samsung anymore. around 5 years they fucked me off with the lack of headphone jack, inability to delete Facebook and American apps (no surprise, Samsung are ~50% owned by the US pension funds). Then I had a Samsung tablet that seemed intentionally hobbled/crap.
At least the Chinese don't lie about spying on you. They just tell you they're doing it.
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