In other news, water makes things wet

Very much good befitting bake! Very much appreciating the breaking news room temp IQ troll spam post!

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Why is this immature troll anon allowed to spam the board with flamewar instigating threads that serve no purpose besides insulting Apple and posting lies about smartphones?

>>108659278
>iPhones are backdoored and spy on everything you do and it's impossible to remove spyOS and replace it with FOSS
Hi mods and Jannys this is a troll baking a spam thread instigating flamewars. Read what they posted in the OP!

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>>108659278
Nice fake ai troll image, Apple actually moved up for its repairability too. I'm so glad this buck broken by Apple troll is here on /g and constantly has to bake cope threads. :)

>>108659627
>>108659632
>>108659635
>>108659684
uh oh iSpammer melty

just know that whenever you pull out anything other than an iphone in front of a woman, your chances of having sex with her drop by ~30%. caring enough to choose anything other than an iphone is a huge tell on your potentially brokie and/or autistic personality

Someone bake a real spg thread without Apple hate troll spam cope

>>108659632
I'm so sick of you anjew and faggle jeets pretending anyone cares about this dick measuring contest. theyre both absolutely dogshit and the only good thing about the AI chip shortage is they cant afford to dump more of this bullshit into my phone. I'm sticking with the depreciated phones from now on.

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>>108659278
>>iPhones are backdoored and spy on everything you do, and it's impossible to remove spyOS and replace it with FOSS
I would trust an iPhone over a Chinese phone any day of the week

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>>108660089
Truth Nuke, the Chinese and sirs put spy chips in cheap USB wires and charging bricks as well. It's so common too, I'd NEVER buy any off brand stuff for charging or transfering files.

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>>108660089
Google spies on its users too, they got caught spying, lied about it multiple times and lost multiple lawsuits for doing so.

>>108660124
There was a Bloomberg story a few years ago about Chinese spy chips in servers. I don't know whether the story was accurate, but since then I've avoided Chinese tech

>>108660230
At least Google is based in a country that has a relatively sensible (if flawed) legal system, whereas Chinese companies have to do whatever the CCP says

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Google was banned from China because they wouldn't comply with government demands to be able to spy on all their users.
Apple has never been banned in China.
iSaar can't cope with this.

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whats a xiaomi alternative?
the pro 8x max was a bit buggy on the os side
and no samshit and ishit

>>108660298
not relvant if you dont live in china
actually it shows it only feeds us government
further proved chink phones > burger phones

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>>108660314
sony or end of life gizmos seems like the only options on the table. if you must be a good goy then razr i guess. never get google, never get apple, never get samsung.

>>108660334
>snoy
>gizmos
who?
razer makes phones?
guess i get and 20 year old nokia then
i would say i will just use the ishit 13 i got for 100 euros from work until t breaks but it broke in 2.5 years
cant even use apple pay on this shit

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>The largest smartphone factory in the world is located in India and it produces Samsungs
Congratulations to Samsung and this obviously makes it the face of Indias smartphone manufacturing!

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>>108660410
Samsung really owes a lot of gratitude to india.
Offering cheaper labor than rival nations borderlining as slavery so the South Korean brand can prosper. Truly inspiring levels of sacrifice.

>>108660357
razr was bought out by lenovo
>who
anyone who quit making phones
>cant use x on y
search for phones with a cult following and updoot if you need your globo homo slop. personally i think i'd rather slap that shit on a goycattle watch than continue to pay over9000 for bricks with no SD card slot while ram and ssd prices are moonshoting

>>108660298
iphones are made in india and you get spied on by your local governments to boot? which idiot would shill for such a company for free?

>>108660591
Only 25% of iPhones are made in india.
75% of Samsungs sold in the west came from india. >>108660410 >>108660447

>>108660715
flagship iphones are made in india
flagship samsungs are not made in india, only the poorfag ones are

simple as

>>108660726
100% incorrect. Awwwww the anon can't handle the truth and has to reply with made up stories. Where's the source with links? So far I ONLY see proof Samsung is the face of Indias smartphone manufacturing.

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More androids are made in india than iPhones little bro. India loves Android that's why it sells so much there. >>108589600

>>108660767
I'm not indian, that's you. We can tell by the way you use low IQ fake troll images when you fail at making Apple look bad plus your typical incoherent gibberish is a hint too.

None of what you posted production wise is true, Apple only makes 25% of it's inventory in India see >>108589515 therefore 75% is made outside of india. It's easy math. The same math also determined outta the 330 millions smartphones india produces annually only 55 million are iPhones and the rest are androids see >>108589571
Congratulations to india for being the LARGEST android smartphone manufacturer on the planet.
>>108660410 >>108660447

>>108660786
none of what you said debunked that though >>108660726
when you buy an iphone, you get a 25% chance to roll a Made in India phone. Sad!

>>108660788
>Samsung is the face of indian smartphone manufacturing
Since you have provided 0 proof of your false claims and can't debunk mine which was backed up with evidence, I accept your concession kid. Too easy.

>>108660298
So iPhones in the West don't spy on users for the government, whereas iPhones in China do? Well I'm in the West so I guess iPhones should be relatively private in my country.

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>>108660826
iOS is more secure than Android. No one ever came back with an iPhone having issues, but when I was working in the cellphone industry only Android phones were coming back, because people downloaded some fake software from Google's own PlayStore and now their phone is glitching and full of spyware and bugs. Cellphone stores are full of people who have to have their Androids factory reset because the operating system allows scammers to post apps on their ecosystem.

>>108660812
its okay anon, you can keep "winning" internet arguments. I'm just educating /spg/ visitors that apple's flagship phones are made in india and my job is clearly done

>>108660911
You haven't posted anything true, you clearly have only trolled and lied in the thread. :)

>>108659278
>OP pic
Well I can only hope that with the Neo their repairability trend will go up. Mainly because everyone blindly apes everything Apple does and it's about fucking time they do something right so that the rest of the market does things right as well. Not, remove the headphone jack to sell TWS buds, or glue the battery in, or have screen notches because more screen better and bezels icky.

>>108661096
It's fake lol see: >>108659684
Apple has better repairability than Microsoft and Google.

>>108661114
I've seen enough Louis Rossmann to know that Macbooks are engineered to be unrepairable, or how they've serialized the parts so that you couldn't transplant iPhone parts from two identical devices thanks to artificial DRM meant to force you to get fucked by Apple, and the Neo is the antithesis of Apple's design philosophy so far.

Again, I want Apple to do non-retarded things so that everyone does the same non-retarded things because so far it's been the opposite.

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Global Smartphone Sales Feb - Now

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>>108661266
Maybe it makes more sense to look over the course of a year (pic related), because different companies release new phones at different times of the year, which means different companies will have spikes in usage at different times of the year.

Also your chart doesn't show "sales". It shows usage, as recorded by that particular company.

>>108661300
Incorrect lmaoooooooo it's the market share sales reported hahahahahahahhaa you don't understand 5th grade level graphs and charts. Kek.

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Global Top 10 Best Selling Smartphones

>>108661305
It's StatCounter. StatCounter works by injecting trackers into partner sites to gather data form user agents and other browsing data. If you use an ad blocker you're automatically excluded from StatCounter because of that.

It's like when Linuxfags worship the 5.44% from Steam Hardware Survey while having no understanding of what those numbers mean or how they're gathered. The reality that it's opt-in, constantly skewed by Chinese users, only representing Steam users and not putting that in the context of global computer use, there was a sudden decrease in Simplified Chinese users this month despite it surging up with Windows 10 users, which some retards reported as "people coming back to Win10". As long as the percentages show their team is winning, that's all they care about and won't shut up about it.

tl;dr: these statistics are insanely inaccurate, the percentages mean nothing without hard numbers to know the quantity of data samples collected each month, and the Internet has proven the vast majority of people are too retarded to even be given such stats with how much they don't understand them.

>>108661336
Cope and try to debunk this >>108661309

>>108661425
Do you also buy nothing but the most popular brands on the market in every other segment and convince yourself that you're superior to others for buying the exact same products the majority does?

Because that's all you're proving here. Most popular does not equal best, and there are a ton of people that prefer the Android ecosystem over the iOS one for their own practical reasons. Stop acting like a child.

>>108661439
So you CAN'T debunk Counterpoint Research got it! I don't come here to post fantasy tales about what anyone does like you, that's cringe. I come here to discuss smartphones.

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>>108661453
No, you come here to be an insufferable faggot in a general like all the other insufferable faggots in all the other generals and convincing yourself you belong on 4chan, while in reality you're the cancer that brought the quality of the entire site down in the recent years when faggot redditors no longer felt scared to go the the scary hacker website.

You're not special, there are dozens of shitposters on this site exactly like (You), no one finds you funny or amusing, go away and kill yourself.

Notice how this anon like some other similar low IQ anons is upset about factual graphs and charts, but hasn't once complained about the fake troll flamewar spam the baker of this thread has been doing for months. Hmmmmm hypocritical much?

>>108661474
You gotta be 18 and older to post here bud

>>108661486
I'm yet to be convinced this clapback is not tourist projection. Especially given how the site gets way worse during spring break.

Anyone here that has been using graphene for a long period of time?

I'm currently have an iPhone 13 Pro, and while I'm pretty happy with it I kinda miss some of the Android stuff (Niagara launcher, Firefox with extensions, easier sideloading). Also, I don't want to be stuck in the Apple ecosystem.

The Pixel 9a is cheap, the Pixel Fold could also be a great pick since it's not that expensive and I'd like to try a foldable phone.
I'm still a bit skeptical about switching mainly because GOS doesn't support tap to pay (could use something like Curve Pay but that kinda defeats the purpose) and maybe itll be too inconvenient.
The only Google services that I still use are YouTube (morphe mod) and Google Maps. Afaik both of these should work great on graphene, right?

>>108661530
See
>>108661266
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>>108661309
No one uses your toy phone fag don't care lmfao

>>108661530
Nah I'm not a pdf so I don't need it

>>108661543
Very much good befitting immature post

>>108661556
Just doing my best to be in with the in crowd.

>>108661544
Have fun getting raped by Google then ig
>>108661543
?

>>108661309
Seems like everyone buys iPhones more than androids... I wonder why.

>>108661305
It's not sales. I think this guy is pretty much right: >>108661336

It's tracking how many devices visit certain websites. That isn't a measure of sales. It's a measure of smartphone usage.

E.g. in the week after Nintendo released the Switch 2, let's imagine that Nintendo got 60% of all video game console sales in the US for that week, because that device was new and desirable. That doesn't mean that during that week Nintendo had 60% of video game console usage, because there are already tons of people who have PlayStations (and to a lesser extent Xboxes) who would be using those consoles. So perhaps only 30% or 40% of US console gamers used a Nintendo console in that week.

>>108661309
Yeah that looks like a measure of sales.

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>>108661581
>Global Smartphone Shipments Fall 6% YoY in Q1 2026 Amid Memory Crunch; Apple Leads Q1 2026 for First Time

https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smartphone-shipments-q1-2026

>>108661577
>?
you're replying to spammin' sanjay, the spammer who constantly shills iphones for free in /spg/

>>108661665
Want me to bring up factual graphs and charts showing that India is majority Android, making me not a Pajeet, but everyone who shills Android one, and Apple users the only true white aryans? Want me to prove (You) wrong? Make you feel silly? A little ashamed of yourself even?

>>108661665
You are the baker that constantly posts fake images and posts misinformation and trolls the entire board with apple hate. I'm not indian either, we all know that's you.>>108660786

>>108650058
My family and coworkers already know what kind of porn I like to watch because we talk about it. Not sure why you would assume that's an issue for me.

Any sub $100 that runs on whatever latest Android version there is?
I just need something that will last as long as possible sitting on my desk and pretty much only serves as a 2FA machine and run whatever shitty banking apk I'm forced upon.

>>108660298
What are you talking about? They literally sell Android phones with Google on them in China and they have stores that do it too. Imagine being such a low IQ liar.

I've heard that Chinese smartphones like Xiamo and OnePlus are the best on the market now. Does anyone have either one of them?

>>108659278
how to source a phone cheaply overseas? I have a model in mind, but all shops are either crazily upcharged or unavailable. An anon gave me a site that cross references many merchants before, sadly I have lost the link

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help me out guys. im buying a new phone and i cant chose between staying on android and going with OP15/s26U or moving to apple and getting ip17PM
i always go for the flagship and then use it for years. most important features to me are great display, camera and long battery life
op15 tempts me bc of best battery life and cheaper price. im a bit skeptical of its chink software, less than top tier cameras according to reviews, not that bright display (comparatively speaking) and new battery tech (battery is 2500mah bigger than s25u, but only beats it by 1 hour in tests?)

s26u is safe/boring option. had samsungs before so i know what im in for. at beginning batery and performance are great then couple of years later it barely lasts a day and i dont want to sound like conspiracy theorist but it's like they gimp it with updates, slows down a bit and starts stuttering every now and then to make you buy a new one. i dont know if this is still the case? also i look at its predecessors and battery hasnt gotten any bigger for years and it has aluminum body compared to s25s titanium... feels like sidegrade and it doesnt sit right with me

17pm is appealing to me because people tell me PM versions of iphones have really good battery life and devices hold up great over time. i also love how its cameras are user friendly and always give great looking photos with auto settings. last iphone i used was 5s and back then ios was really retarded. it lacked so many features, didnt even have t9 dialing etc, but i hear its gotten better now

feel like donkey stuck between 2 buckets of water. lead me spg

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Oppo just owned Smasnug, who have years of making foldables and still can't even innovate it to get rid of the crease. Oppo is coming for the top Android spot. Can they do it?

>>108663963
Hey, if they release a flip model without the fucking crease, I might bite.

>>108660410
>>108660447
Samsung anons aren’t coming back from this

Has anyone here bought a Redmagic device? I live in the US, which of these sites should I order from?
https://global.redmagic.gg
https://redmagic.tech

>another whiny android shill thread
At least my phone can actually show animations and isn't a java piece of shit

>>108664024
I ordered my red magic 11 Pro and OnePlus 15 directly from their official websites and I live in the USA what's funny is both phones shipped from the same warehouse in California.
>>108664046
Top Kek I love my iPhone 17 Pro Max it's better than my androids

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>>108664056
>directly from their official websites
well which fucking website is it? i linked two of them and you didn't tell me.

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Are there any tablets that can run Linux natively?
My shitty old Samsung got into an argument with a rock, and I'm sick of android being a pile of garbage.
Budget would be around AU$400 max, secondhand is fine.

I wonder what it's like to have a pixel fold

>>108664858
Just get a job and you can buy things that cost that little

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>>108663963
>Flagship snapdragon SOC
>6000mah in a foldable
>80watt charging
>No Crease
>Waterproof rating
>Bluetooth stylus included
Impressive work by the Oppo team on the Find N6.

>>108665064
it's a shame the Find N6 doesn't fully support US 5G frequencies

>>108664232
latitude detachable or linux for ms surface
>but I want arm
arm SoCs and mainline kernel do not mix

>>108660760
Poos can't be wrong about everything

>>108665085
>arm SoCs and mainline kernel do not mix
How bad are we talking? The main reason I want an arm tablet is because all the x86 tablets are fucking huge, I just want a nice 8-10" form factor.

Any other phones that do 6-7 years of service after purchase besides samshit and Ifuck?

>>108663723
17pm has the best hardware but iOS is still retarded
Probably go op15 if you want the best of android in 2026. S26U is pretty disappointing as the display is a downgrade from the S25U's in clarity and usability (i.e. causes bad eye strain)

>>108665102
okay well you either get a pinetab with a potato CPU that gets its socks knocked off by a 10 year old laptop or a literal chromebook or you buy a windows on arm device for WAY too much
and no
pmos on android/cros devices is brain damage incarnate
that's not viable

>>108665104
shitxel

>>108665125
Is it overkill for the horse game and BA? What minimum shitxel would do?

>>108665137
the tensors aren't as good as samsung or apple but idfk what that software is

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Android Authority says to not upgrade to the s26 ultra...

https://youtu.be/ZV2vzjSrRpo?si=eZwN8dV1arROIenc

>>108665145
Umamusume and Blue Archive. He's playing gacha games.

>>108659278
Fire all asians and their asian managers kek. They're stealing money. I can see it from here.

>>108665173
And torrenting.

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All Natural Liquid Cooling

>>108665055
I can afford it but I can't afford to buy things I won't want to use

>>108665382
just buy it used, 2 years after its launched for 35% of the initial cost

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>>108665104
>6-7 years of service

>>108665203
That's the thread baker

>>108665203
>>108665856
Kek

https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g_stylus_5g_(2025)-13784.php
I'm looking at one of these for 151 USD, Refurbed, supposedly in good state, and unlocked, can anyone recommend something with comparable/better processor/gpu around the same price that also has microSD card slot? I don't give a shit about future update support, stylus, camera or even if it's new or not.

>>108666851
$151 is borderline ewaste-tier, youre not getting anything better than that moto

>>108666927
Yeah, I figured unless I went gambling on old used flagships this would be my best bet, thanks.

>>108662289
scamsung a16 is the best for being a dedicated banking machine

>>108662289
>>108667294
There's also the A17, the newer version, but the A16 is probably cheaper. Also Samsung's website says that both those models get security updates until the end of August 2031, so that's over 5 years of security updates from today.

https://www.samsung.com/uk/smartphones/galaxy-a/galaxy-a16-black-128gb-sm-a165fzkbeub/
https://www.samsung.com/uk/smartphones/galaxy-a/galaxy-a17-5g-black-128gb-sm-a176bzkaeub/

>>108665203
thinking like a brilliant

>>108666935
the only thing I can think of that might be faster is someone selling his poco, those are extremely focused on cpu/gpu performance and save costs on everything else. starting price is low so second hand it should be even lower

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>>108661128
it's more repairable than a framework

>>108667642
I wasn't talking about the Neo, this is the model I was talking about where Apple started to make shit more repairable to the point of giving Framework and Lenovo's ThinkPad department a run for it's money. Minus their ARM chip of course, where you'll lose all your data if the RAM or the CPU fails since it's all on the same chip, which isn't the case on x86 machines where they're still all separate, but everything else is very well designed in terms of user repairability indeed. The screw-in battery is especially interesting to see on an Apple product.

The Macbooks I was talking about were the ones engineered to fail. Like having a screen ribbon cable that's too short and constantly breaks during regular usage, or putting a high voltage rail pin right next to the CPU voltage pin in a place where a single drop of water or even moisture condensation would be enough to short them and fry the CPU. The types of design flaws that any regular company would quickly create a factory revision for to avoid further damages. But not Apple, because it wasn't a design flaw, it was a purposeful design feature to make these machines break so that they could keep making money, either on Genius Bar doing shoddy repair work or getting people to pay for a new one.

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>>108667669
yeah idk man. ill just wait for macbooks to get better. i already have an iphone and a thinkpad. i can just use localsend or libimobile to sync shit.

>>108667642
Ifixit gave the MacBook Neo a 6/10 for repairability, while the Framework Laptop 13 got a 10/10.

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Framework+Laptop+Teardown/145124
https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years

>>108667843
>>108667642
Does it matter much if you can't easily acquire the components?

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>>108665159
why is the new "flagship" snapdragon so underwhelming bruh? Same thing with the OnePlus 15 losing to it's previous model the OnePlus 13.

I'm going to blow my brains out at my Android phone suddenly stopping music playback after every song. I drive long distance a lot and every 3 minutes I'm taking my eyes off the road to reach out and hit the play button. I have absolutely no power saving settings turned on (the phone is always plugged in) and it's across all apps. Only started like a week or two ago, any suggestions?

>>108668040
its highly likely because of a botched os update from your phone maker tbqh

>>108668053
Zzzz I got rid of my Samsung because of this shit, my OnePlus had been very reliable until now. I might have to roll back my updates, which at least I can do with OnePlus. One time I took my Samsung in for a free cracked screen repair and they updated the OS and locked it to that version in the BIOS.

>>108667830
>i can just use localsend or libimobile to sync shit.
Syncthing just werks, worth setting it up.

I'm looking into buying a RedMagic 11 Pro, but I've heard rumors that a newer model (possibly called the RedMagic 11S Pro) is going to be announced soon. Has anyone heard anything about that? I know they already announced the 11 Air, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing.

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Battery Test Video for the S26 Ultra vs the iPhone 17 Pro Max!
The A19 Pro really shows off its efficient performance.

https://youtu.be/Xqbg6j3SPjk?si=okJdzbDxKSiKk8uG

I do not care for the iPhone.
I prefer the Android ecosystem.

>>108668244
no idea but i know a guy irl who has the RM11P and he's annoyed by the software's bugginess. not sure about the exact cause of annoyance though

>>108668331
My OnePlus 15 can screen record YouTube but my red magic 11 Pro starts freezing and the videos lag during screen recording so yes the software is terrible because my red magic 11 pro has 24 GB of RAM and my OnePlus 15 only has 16 so all that power goes to waste when the software can't even utilize it properly.

>>108668244
>>108668331
oh yeah i remember him saying something about the UI stuttering or somesuch which interferes with his gacha games

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Another battery comparison video between a Pixel 10 Pro XL, Galaxy S26 Ultra and iPhone 17 Pro Max.

https://youtu.be/1o2NiZmgvus?si=obnKK4uw7SkFOFIY

>>108668340
>>108668349
Well I don't really have a whole lot of options, because RedMagic is one of the very few companies that still includes headphone slots on their devices.

>>108668244
Nope, I haven't heard anything about that

>>108668244
11s is coming out in June. They release phones every 6 months. they are giving a 11s away on a giveaway too on the official rm website but they didn't say it's the 11s. They said the prize is a.new upcoming unreleased phone.

>>108660283
Western companies have to do what Israel says and put backdoors in their phones for Mossad.

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>>108668486
Pegasus works on iOS and Android. Stop posting misinformation. Imagine blatantly posting lies on a technology board. Every company that ever existed works with spy agencies, Snowden told us about this in 2012 zoom zoom.

anyone managed to get ankidroid working on grapheneos? Or fixed an issue with ankidroid crashing upon attempting to open a deck or check statistics generally? I’ve tried it with all protections disabled and all relevant permissions granted (e.g. full storage read/write; DCL, e.t.c. e.t.c.)

>>108668822
No one that isn't a PDF uses grapheneOS

Smasnug doesn't even pay it's employees, next OnePlus situation coming soon.

https://youtu.be/hIAnEvaQ5OI?si=Ya_9J0jJcoIZ4A3N

Technically not a phone, but what is the best cheap tablet these days?
Need it to have stylus and preferably good long term support.
S9 tab had basically everything I wanted but they no longer sell those new.
S11 is more expensive and those lite/fe models don't have oled.

>>108668566
I'm talking about pre-installed backdoors.

>>108669079
I can't tell if you are a room temp iq troll anon or you are being serious. Do you not understand any company that's Mass producing stuff like that works with spy agencies from the get-go, if you don't understand this you aren't smart enough to discuss this matter.

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Let's be honest, Samsung is the best smartphone maker
>Capable phones for every budget (from small budgets, to medium budgets, to flagship budgets)
>Freedom of Android, instead of locked-down iOS
>Security updates for longer than competitors (mid-range phones get 6 years, flagships get 7 years)
>Not Chinese, so your data is much less likely to be acquired by the CCP

>>108668486
I strongly doubt that's true. In any case though, I am unhappy with Israel these days, but they are less hostile towards my country than China is. So I trust the CCP less than Israel.

>108669251
Lol lmao even the shill cope is why I come here

>>108669251
>Freedom of Android, instead of locked-down iOS
Smasnugs locked bootloader says otherwise shill kid

I have no idea what phone to get next, my Galaxy s21 Ultra is fucked.

>>108669355
s25 ultra

Do all new phones have built in AI features? I really want one without this bullshit.

>>108669251
What >>108669297 said, Smasnug is one of the worst offenders when it comes to the ability to run your own software. On par with just about every chinkshit manufacturer. And I couldn't give less of a shit about the hardware if the software sucks ass. It's a basic rule of all technology, I either have a choice to use non-shit software of my choosing, or it's shit. It's also why iPads are dogshit because they have dogshit software despite their hardware being on par with Macbooks.

The only Android phones worth a shit are the ones with an unlocked bootloader, and those are basically exclusively AOSP. Leaving you with:
-Google
-Motorola
-Sony
And if you want to narrow it to the ones that support GrapheneOS which is arguably the best custom AOSP available you're left with:
-Google
-Motorola
With the latter releasing a model with GrapheneOS support next year. So ironically you're stuck with paying Google, the architect of the enshittified spyware of Android, to get the cleanest, freest Android experience. Such is the world we live in.

>>108669519
Yeah, I'm really considering it.

>>108669526
yeah, ai is built into google apps
if you don't want to have ai then consider a custom rom with microg

>>108669527
None of the brands you listed make good phones no offense and I'm the second person you quoted btw

>>108668297
Android doesnt have an ecosystem

>>108669581
Edge 60 Pro is a good phone, though. Bad for the curve display, but good at everything else.

>>108669581
Yeah no shit
>no headphone jack and no mSD slot
>budget chinkshit
>overpriced and underpowered
But you know what, I'll take a hardware compromise if it means I don't have to compromise on software. If I wanted to get a phone to jerk off about having the best paper specs in the world, I'd get an iPhone. But I'm not a homosexual like most of this thread.

>>108669583
>open source development existed since it's inception
>it still does and will continue to thanks to GOS/adb
>unrooted Android lets the end user do more than a jailbroken iPhone
If you're a gorilla that only ever uses a web browser and social media then get an iPhone, but if you believe that you represent the wants and needs of every human being on the planet, then shut your mouth for everyone else's sake.

My A56 arrives today. How cooked am I for having picked it?

>>108669610
Not to me
>>108669623
Cringe immature opinionated post with 0 logical truth

>>108669527
pixel pulled device trees though

>>108669631
Well at least you didn't go with the M series that has "OneUI Core" where Smasnug outright disables AOSP functionality you'd get on the cheapest Motorola just to make you buy an A series model. It's a phone, you'll be fine.

>>108669623
What you described is not an ecosystem. Please shut your mouth for everyone else’s sake.

>>108669656
>"what you said is all wrong so shut the fuck up"
>refuses to explain why
I have no reason to listen to loudmouthed faggots who think they know better than everyone else but can't put their money where their mouth is. You got no power over me little shitstain.

i love my poco with paranoid android vauxite.

>>108669643
>Not to me
Why?

>>108669651
Nice.
>"OneUI Core"
Gave my S20 FE to my mother. She used a Galaxy Core before. The phone was disgusting since inception. Really bad.

>>108669669
Do you even know what an ecosystem is?

>>108669671
X8 Pro?

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Interesting heavy workload comparison video.
A19 Pro doing better than a snapdragon flagship.

https://youtu.be/8UGwNBJseKo?si=na207Qv8K-fPSY33

>>108669690
Its funny because the whole point of having an Android is to AVOID an ecosystem. It’s literally the opposite. These people do not know what they’re buying.

>>108669704
The problem with those tests is that no one in their right minds use their phones like that.
But that's definitely not the one that bothers me. Those that the dude "clicks at the same time" infuriates me. What a fucking retarded thing to do

>>108669730
None of what you posted debunks the results from testing comparison videos. Opinions don't beat research proven results on video.

>>108669690
>>108669711
Oh so you wanna play semantics, okay.
Software ecosystem. Same reason why Windows =/= Linux no matter how you put it.
iOS doesn't have an alternative for Tasker. It's something that can only be done on Android due to how the OS is designed, and it's something I'd be missing on iOS. Or open source apps that let me block adds, like NewPipe or GrayJay. Can't get those on iOS. Not on App Store, no mechanism to actually install the software I want on a device I bought.

Not like Apple shills like (You) would ever understand why would someone want to use apps like these.

>>108669730
The main issue with these comparisons and everyone circlejerking around them is that a huge bulk of the battery use isn't app usage or the screen being on, but the mobile radio constantly negotiating connections with the nearest BTS towers as you go about your day. These synthetic tests never have this aspect of battery usage in them, unless they're being done in a van that's constantly driving around.

>>108669762
Didn't read

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>>108669773
>didnt read lol got u
You've got school tomorrow little man, do your homework.

>>108669702
f5

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The iPhone 17 Pro Max performs better than both the S26 Ultra and the Red Magic 11 Pro in a head to head gaming comparison.

https://youtu.be/Evy9NGnw6Fg?si=NPF5b30Zp9zfbEkz

I may have a little more money this time around. What's good for 400-500? No iPhones

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>>108669813
Galaxy S26 Ultra vs iPhone 17 Pro Max Camera Comparison

https://youtu.be/yKlXqDCzcEY?si=i2I08Y8mFVzrAZ40

>>108670250
Does Apple still have planned obsolescence where the phone craps out after a number of updates?

>>108670489
very much good befitting response

>>108667348
>>108667294
Thanks for the recommendations. Managed to find some listings for refurbished a16 for around 70 eurobucks.
I really don't need the compute or anything I've got a very expensive PC for that and I fucking hate using smartphones for anything that isn't calls.

>>108670508
It was a genuine question, though.
That was one of the main reasons I stopped buying their products.

>>108670557
Bro none of that is happening to any of my ipads, MacBooks or iPhones. I have relatives still using my old Apple stuff I gave them when I upgraded.

>>108669813
nord 5

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Looks ass

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New DameTech Video. The S26 Ultra crashes and requires a cooler. Even with a cooling setup the Galaxy wasn't able to surpass the iPhone 17 Pro Max running the SAME game.

https://youtu.be/pGZLQvmzIbg?si=tki8SKJJvQ2GX_jb

>>108670963
Retards trying to run AAA games on their phones always amuse me.

>>108670963
I still can't believe DameTech is sponsored officially by Red Magic now and they let him post honest videos.

>>108670963
Can you get anything like ReVanced on iPhone?

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>>108670963
Oof.

>>108671118
Lol lmao even they have stuff like that for iPhones, it's been years too. Please do some research into how simple it is too.
>>108671145
Ah yes a cope comment totally makes the video comparison fake.

>>108670963
>No one wants to explain why the s26 ultra kept crashing and required a cooler while the iPhone 17 Pro Max did not
Too easy.

>>108671161
>Lol lmao even they have stuff like that for iPhones, it's been years too. Please do some research into how simple it is too.
Can you link it?

after removing MIUI trash and installing lineage my phone has become "just werks" so much thats its incredibly boring, it makes me want to buy a new phone

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>>108671161
>Ah yes a cope comment totally makes the video comparison fake.

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>>108671244
Pic related
>>108671263
See >>108671179

My Kiwi Browser is on its last legs. I'm getting a lot of page load errors for common sites like DDG or Wikipedia. What's a good alternative?

>>108660447
>>108670963
>>108671179
Sheesh!!! I’m switching to OnePlus.

>>108670250
So glad I didn't buy a Samsung again

>>108670963
>>108671179
embarrassing for Qualcomm and Samsung

>>108670539
Why not just use your PC for online banking? Also I bet there is at least one 2FA app out there that will run on Windows or Linux or whatever you're running

>>108671397
firefox and cromite can load extensions

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>>108669803
Interesting

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The A19 Pro is a beast, outperforming gaming smartphones. >>108596291 >>108597019

https://benchmarks.ul.com/en/compare/best-tablets?amount=0&sortBy=PERFORMANCE&reverseOrder=true&osFilter=ANDROID,IOS,WINDOWS&test=SOLAR_BAY_EXTREME_UNLIMITED&deviceFilter=PHONE&displaySize=3.0,7.9

how hard is battery replacement in modern smartphone if you never did it before?

>>108673144
depends entirely on the phone ranging from impossible to do without breaking everything to needing to spend more money on tools than its worth to being as easy as using a hair dryer and pulling the case apart.
since you didn't bother looking up the video showing you how to do it for your exact phone or tell us the phones model I'm assuming you're too stupid to do it and will fuck it up royally. good luck anon and godspeed.

My face when the Google Pixel 10 Pro (2026) loses in benchmarks to an iPhone 13 (2021).

The snapdragon 8 elite was already underwhelming and they somehow managed to make it worse with the 8 elite gen 5. Lol, lmao even, Qualcomm

>>108671145
kek, this tb h
i guess iphones only win if you handicap the other phone

>>108674668
Wrong! See: >>108673126

>>108674692
>android
>emulation layer + unlocked to 60hz
>iphone
>native app + 30hz FG'd to 60hz
KEK! iphones need the handicap to win at anything

>>108674716
Once again wrong. See: >>108673126 >>108671179

>>108673494
google makes fuckin ewaste

I don't know why I open this general. Genuinely one of the worst shitheaps on this site. Reading you faggots feels like getting a lobotomy.

The worst part you are so souless you can't even conceptualize the feeling of shame. Which would match the mind of an izzat farming dalit that is obsessed with the most soulless, most dumbed-down form of technology that are smartphones. And I wouldn't be surprised that if 4chan put a hard lock on Indian IP's this general's quality would instantly improve overnight.

>>108674799
I remember my first week on this website too zoom zoom

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I made the switch from Galaxy S23 to iPhone 16 Pro Max in mid January, 3 months and 1 week ago.
What are my thoughts on it so far?

I'm probably just gonna get the Galaxy S26 ultra.
Apple is just too Jewish for me and the fact that they pay Indians to post in this thread didn't sell me on them.

my phone broke and i cant find a phone in this market
what is this gay as state we are in? where is the competition? why everyone produces dogshit only?

>>108669251
samshit is on the bottom of my list and ishit is one above it

>>108675999
Just buy it from a store with a no questions asked return policy in case you happen to be one of the 2% of buyers who gets headaches from the S26U's display

>>108669251
>Freedom of Android
lol
Not to mention that they put ten gorillion bloatwares just like all the chink phones

>>108669297
>>108669527
Google is definitely a decent choice too. I personally don't care about a locked bootloader, but to each their own.
>>108675304
You wish you had stuck with the Galaxy.
>>108676199
Why?
>>108676311
Not much bloat. On mine there's a few Samsung apps I don't use, and there's AppCloud, which people complain about (4chan in particular dislikes it because it's made by an Israeli company). I just disable apps like that. Simple.

>>108676391
>Why?
why???
why wouldnt it be? its weaker hardware for money
and it has jewshit spyware
and it breaks under 2 years
never buying crapsung again

>>108676492
>for money
for more money*
and weakest battery on the market

>>108676492
>>108676500
>its weaker hardware for money
I'll take slightly weaker hardware if it means security updates for longer, and a phone that doesn't send your data to the CCP.
>and it has jewshit spyware
You probably mean AppCloud, made by an Israeli company. Firstly I doubt it spies on you. Secondly you can disable it in the settings. Apparently you can remove it entirely with adb.
>and it breaks under 2 years
I doubt that. Also, Samsung mid-range phones have security updates for 6 years, which is much longer than other phones, which might only get 2 to 4 years of security updates.
>and weakest battery on the market
Samsung's mid-range phones these days have 5,000 mAh batteries.

iphone 17 pro or s26 ultra?

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>S23U
>Very happy with every single thing and see no real reason to upgrade

>>108673144
Theoretically you can do it yourself but its much better to just go to a good and reputable service place that can do this for you

>>108669526
My brother in Christ...nobody is forcing you to use any of it. Some of the AI features are genuinely useful but nobody is putting a gun to your head and making you use features only through AI

>>108669355
Just get another Samsung Ultra? You can find an S25U for a very, very good price right now

>>108677258
Take it easy. Anon probably got replaced with clanker.

>>108676904
Honor win

>>108670898
I just hope for better band support in the usa

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my youtube revanced gives me 'sign in to confirm you are not a bot' every few days and i need to reinstall to bypass this, what is the issue?

I impulse today bought Motorola Signature (16/512, ~$830 week old, sealed with papers, 2 year warranty) .
How much did I fuck up? My priority was desktop mode and video out over cable.

>>108677267
Looks like I'll probably be getting the S26 Ultra on Monday. Found a decent deal for it in the UK where I am.

>>108669355
How did you fuck it up

>>108678209
Personally I would get the standard S26 because I don't like huge phones, but I guess some people are into them

Please talk me out of buying a pixel phone

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>>108678429

>>108678429
you can install grapheneOS in pixel
and grapheneOS does not comply with identity verification laws.

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>>108678429
>>108678449 is lying, here's the real active use score

>>108678288
>How did you fuck it up
USB charging completely stopped working.
I can still charge it wirelessly, but u might as well get an upgrade.

>>108678532
they're the same numbers retard

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>>108669803
>>108670963
>>108673099
>>108673126

Crazy how the A19 Pro chips have all of that performance with more power efficiency too!

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Smartphone Use By Individual Nations Jan 2026 - Now

>>108678429
you'll have too much freedom, with custom ROMs and stuff. You should just buy an iPhone and live in a digital prison.

>>108678639
go back to sleep achmed

>>108678641
Stop posting your false opinions as facts, we aren't from places that blindly listen to random people lying. >>108671270

>>108678641
very much good befitting misinformation post sir!

>>108678664
>>108678678
what misinformation did I post? use your words, shill

>>108678641
>>108678762
thirdies post lies itt and we know they all come from >>108638860

>>108678784
ok, please post the custom ROM you can install on an iPhone 17 Pro Max

>>108678791
>roms are very much good
roms are dead Vikram lol

>>108677921
anyone?

wish this general wasn't rabid and insidious

>>108678793
yeah maybe if you have iPhone or a Samsung (which has locked bootloaders and s proprietary VoLTE implementation so no custom ROMs either)

Nice racism, aren't you the same guy who is always bitching about people making fun of pajeets? nice hypocrisy

I want a new phone.
My $200 chinese poco from 5 years ago is still working fine though. I barely use my phone for anything besides light web-browsing and studying. The only regretted I've had from using a budget one is not having a good camera while traveling.

What are some useful things I could do if I bought a nice modern flagship phone that a budget one can't? I'm looking for excuses.

>>108678797
this is the consumerism shill thread, nobody has technical expertise

>>108679108
what thread should i try instead? i also dont have much tech experiance

>>108679052
>What are some useful things I could do if I bought a nice modern flagship phone that a budget one can't?
literally nothing, innovation has been dead for multiple years.

>>108671397
Edge canary

>>108679052
There is nothing to buy
T. Posting this withy rotten iohone 13 i got cheap used from my work

>>108659278
is there ANY $700 phone that comes close to the iPhone 15 Pro when it comes to camera quality? at low light?

>>108679108
>>108679146
>>108679196
Anybody that’s coming to the technology board and specifically posting in this thread claiming that there is nothing worth buying that is brand new is lying and coping because they can’t afford anything over $1000 and these jobless kids are liars. don’t believe the lies there’s very few people in this thread that know what they’re doing and it’s the ones that can actually afford the new technology and have it for real life daily use

>>108679108
>>108679196
Cope harder

>>108679052
if you want a new phone with a good camera your ONLY options are the galaxy ultra and iphone pro lines. Don't believe chink shitomi shills itt.

>>108679634
this. just because you can’t afford a brand new flagship doesn’t mean there’s nothing to buy.

>>108679634
so about that revanced problem that im having....

>>108678548
8:40 is not the same as 12:34, Sandeep

if I want to finally replace my phone's dogshit default OS with something like Lineage, what's the best way to back up everything accrued from years of use and transfer over?

>>108679052
One big perk of getting a flagship released in the past couple years is UltraHDR support, but to be fair there are some upper midrange phones that support it as well. It sounds like a stupid bullshit gimmick but it actually does make pictures look better. It completely gets rid of the uncanny tonemapped look that's so characteristic of smartphone pictures because it's displaying images in real HDR which removes the need for tonemapping.

>>108659278
>feel like maybe upgrading from my CMF Phone 1
>it works beautifully, feels great, but I just have an urge for a new shiny thing
>check out google pixels, the 9a seems cheap while being a reasonable upgrade/sidegrade
>look at reviews
>no SD card slot
Disappointing, but its at least encouraged me to clear out my phones storage a bit even if I'm not upgrading.
When the FUCK are the EU going to force phone makers to include SD card slots?

>>108659278
>>Rooting and custom ROMs
>>Beware carrier variants with locked bootloaders
>https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices
>https://iode.tech/installation
>https://grapheneos.org/install
>https://crdroid.net/downloads
>https://xdaforums.com

about time someone fixed that section
the main xda side is useless slop garbage
literally all the good stuff is on the forums

>>108680603
I don't think that's ever going to be on the cards as there's not really a good reason for it.
I'd rather have a headphone jack.

>>108681034
No one cares. See: >>108678793

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TechNick Battery Test Comparison Video.

https://youtu.be/0G10r4MnCqU?si=ZrO3Ql0xlBfblCEG

>>108681039
I used to be a headphone jack hardliner, but in all honesty I've grown quite attached to my noise cancelling sony wf-c700n bluetooth headphones so it doesn't bother me at all now.

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New Tech Knee Grow Video

https://youtu.be/7YrdI7h2XoY?si=oxNwphgsDbFKZd9V

>>108681052
>>108681071
>>108681117
No one cares about your jeetPhone shilling Spammin Sanjay.

In less than a year we're all going back to comically large brick phones just to avoid triggering Europeans.

Kind of weird when you think about it.

>>108681128
Keep projecting vikram

>>108681128
Who's talking about Samsung? >>108660410
>>108660447