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What phone brand do you like the best? (midwest.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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*In terms of privacy, customisation, camera quality, and battery time.

For the longest time I have only used either iPhone or Samsung. I plan on switching to Android for the next phone I get, but I find that Samsung phones are often too big for me and put too much energy on camera quality (I don’t take many photos). I have started to look into brands such as Nokia and Motorola, and I would like to know what you guys think of them. Additionally, do you suggest any other phone brands aside from them? My biggest priorities are privacy and long battery time. Bonus if the phone can run LineageOS (I have excluded Graphene as they are only compatible with Pixel phones).

Thank you for any answers. Cheers!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Eh, you can always start with yourself. Let the rest make their own decisions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (7 children)

The thing about the Apple experience is that it doesn’t only integrate well among your own devices, but also others. Being isolated from that can be pretty challenging, especially if you are the only one in the family. Unless you come up with a whole marketing concept to make the change seem attractive to other (not techy) family members, you’d be cycling uphill.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Can you be more specific?

I've heard this argument, but AFAIK the main things are iMessage and FaceTime. I don't know about your family, but I generally don't want FaceTime most of the time. I haven't used iMessage, but it seems like Signal is a drop in replacement, and the benefits are compatibility with Android and desktop apps for Windows and Linux.

Perhaps the play is to switch one app at a time. That's what I'm going to try to get ready to leave Android for Linux phones (assuming they'll be daily-driveable at some point).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

There's the little things like airdrop as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I guess there's not a super convenient alternative, but maybe something like Syncthing would be close enough?

But yeah, any kind of data synchronization or resource sharing is a little awkward.

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