why retards still buy western phones is beyond me - /g/ (#105899122) [Archived: 388 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/14/2025, 6:25:33 AM No.105899122
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https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_redmi_note_14_pro+_5g_(global)-13612.php
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 6:26:59 AM No.105899135
aren't chinese phones significantly gimped in the US? missing bands, can't run android auto or certain other apps, etc?
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 6:30:06 AM No.105899156
>>105899135
They work good in China.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 6:32:03 AM No.105899173
>>105899135
for tech illiterate bros paying iq tax to jew corps, yes
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 6:36:30 AM No.105899206
itt andjeets coping
Replies: >>105899213
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 6:37:22 AM No.105899213
>>105899206
>t. currynigger
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 6:40:38 AM No.105899240
nice andjeet phone with ads baked into every basic app
Replies: >>105900175
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 6:51:33 AM No.105899306
locked boot loader? shit software?
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 6:53:33 AM No.105899316
>>105899122 (OP)
>no card slot
Into the trash it goes
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 7:00:15 AM No.105899350
Band locked in burgerland because freedom
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 7:12:00 AM No.105899395
>>105899122 (OP)
I have a redmi note 10. The software was so buggy that it couldn't even receive calls reliably. I had to flash a custom rom.
They did eventually fix it, but it took literally years. Just insane.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 7:18:50 AM No.105899425
>>105899122 (OP)
because they are full of ads
>use an alternative OS
banking and shit stops working, so no
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 7:20:06 AM No.105899434
>>105899122 (OP)
>no headphone jack
faggot shit
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 7:22:48 AM No.105899451
>>105899122 (OP)
>6200mAh
enjoy having this chink explosive device in your pocket
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:20:09 AM No.105899797
>>105899122 (OP)
Chinese phones are way too big because Chinese don't have computers so they need these giant phablet to serve as their only device
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:28:49 AM No.105899850
>>105899122 (OP)
for the price you get 2 years of updates and shitty system apps that push ads which you cannot delete since they keep reinstalling. Also transferring data is a pain in the ass. Google made this mess and never bothered to fix it.
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:38:43 AM No.105899904
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>>105899122 (OP)
>120Hz screen
Don't need any more than 60
>2700x1200
Don't need more than 1920x1200
>12GB RAM
Guarantee you 8 of those GB are "expandable" using the phone's storage
>200MP camera
Don't mean shit if the software is garbage.
>No SD slot
>No headphone jack
>"AI" processor
I'll stick with my 2024 Moto G while you play your faggot ass gacha games at 40FPS
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:42:29 AM No.105899928
>I don't understand why don't people buy chinkphones with 2 year official support and firmware ads
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:47:58 AM No.105899954
>>105899928
>>105899850
Yes keep updooting goyim
Replies: >>105900049 >>105901556
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 9:04:56 AM No.105900049
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md5: 1e96919dedee09859c8f2133329bbf79🔍
>>105899954
>buying a disposable chinkphone is what the jews fear the most
Replies: >>105900181 >>105905001
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 9:08:33 AM No.105900063
>>105899425
You can remove the ads and use a phone that allows you to install newpipe and kuroba.
Meanwhile while other phones do not come with ads, they won't let you use newpipe and kuroba and you will have to pay three times more for them.
Replies: >>105900075
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 9:10:05 AM No.105900075
>>105900063
>You can remove the ads
Not sure you can? Last time I had a Xiaomi phone I just some random splash screen ads and found no way to disable them
Replies: >>105900181
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 9:27:04 AM No.105900175
>>105899240
/g/ ignores the most obvious solution of flashing a custom rom
>but the security updates from the manufacturer...
Not a single android update has been for the better.
Replies: >>105900238
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 9:27:40 AM No.105900181
chinkshit updates
chinkshit updates
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>>105899850
>>105899928
>>105900049
Chinsectoids claim that they will be updating it up to Android 17, and it's a A14 phone.
Is Judengle gonna release 3 major versions in 2 years span?
My 2020 february phone from them was getting new OS ROM updates till june 2024, that's 4.5 years of support. Not that I would want to install their filthy HyperOS in place of MIUI anyway.

>>105900075
You have to uncheck consent/recommendations in settings of each xiaomi-made app to not had ads displayed in them. Takes about 2 minutes total.
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 9:34:25 AM No.105900216
>>105899122 (OP)

raw specs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2zt0yAcplU
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 9:37:31 AM No.105900238
>>105900175
insane andjeet cope
my nearly 5 years old iphone 12 still gets updates, still runs as smooth as day one.
Replies: >>105900265 >>105900282
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 9:37:50 AM No.105900240
>>105899135
Yeah no bands support is the biggest gripe
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 9:42:44 AM No.105900265
>>105900238
How are you enjoying newpipe and kuroba on your phone, or firefox.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 9:44:58 AM No.105900282
>>105900238
>using apple slop made for faggots
Homosexual cope. Just admit you are using it to display how proud you are of your homosexuality and not for any technical reasons (apple hardware is garbage). It is your pride flag.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 12:59:00 PM No.105901556
>>105899954
if you owned one of these phones you would know that they have some huge bugs that prevent a normal work flow. For example file upload was broken for a long time with their OS they never bothered fixing it for older phones but told everyone to buy a new one.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:07:13 PM No.105901614
>>105900181
classic chinkphone releasing with an outdated android version
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:38:45 PM No.105901805
>>105899122 (OP)
"smartphone" is garbage

if you use this shit you're a retard
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:44:53 PM No.105901849
>>105899135
Makes me happy to live in Asia.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:46:16 PM No.105901860
>>105899316
The last xiaomemes I used that had a sd card slot forced you to choose between dual sims and a sd card. Dual sims won out for me. I don't miss that functionality since 256GB on my current phone is enough for me really.
Replies: >>105902023
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:47:46 PM No.105901873
>>105899928
Official support is such a meme. You can still run apps perfectly fine. I'm still on Android 11.
Replies: >>105901883 >>105901954
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:49:16 PM No.105901883
>>105901873
Yeah seriously at this point I care way more about the hardware. It's not like I'm going to daily drive a phone that isn't getting any updates, not even just security updates. At the same time what good is getting bumped up another Android version going to do me? I just buy a new phone every 2 years or so. They're dirt fucking cheap.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 1:59:00 PM No.105901954
>>105901873
I'm still on android 10, will upgrade the phone when my current programs won't run anymore but I guess it will take some times until android 10 will be considered outdated by developers.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:02:51 PM No.105901981
>>105899122 (OP)
>western phones
And what phones would those be? They're all made in China. All of them.
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:04:35 PM No.105901993
>>105901981
The ones from the manufacturer who pays him to defame xiaomi.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:07:09 PM No.105902013
>>105899122 (OP)
>Card slot No
>3.5mm jack No
yeah nah, I like Xiaomi a lot (my tablets and current phone are from Xiaomi) but this is crap, get another recent model that has those instead. at the moment my Redmi Note 10 Pro still does everything I need it to and has official LineageOS
Replies: >>105902025
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:08:10 PM No.105902023
>>105901860
>The last xiaomemes I used that had a sd card slot forced you to choose between dual sims and a sd card
mine doesn't, I can use all 3 slots at the same time. I don't have a use for dual sim personally though
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:08:22 PM No.105902025
>>105902013
Xiaomi's tablets are a joke, expensive but worse than entry level ipads.
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:09:49 PM No.105902030
>>105902025
mine are fine, I didn't buy expensive ones though. I have 2 Redmi Pad SEs (the 11 inch model), cost me 120 eurobucks each and they do what I want them to. just like my phone they're running LineageOS, albeit for them it's unofficial
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:12:40 PM No.105902043
>>105902030
>Redmi Pad SE
Don't they use the snapdragon 680 mobile processor.
That's just embarrassing.
Can you even have hd video playback without the tablet crumbling?
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:15:34 PM No.105902063
>>105902043
not sure if you're being serious or not but yeah lmao watching videos, browsing, stuff like that, works just fine. I also play Blue Archive on them and it works without issues
really the only problem is on me, I bought the 4GB RAM models when the 8GB weren't that much more expensive, just me being retarded and trying to save a few bucks here
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:15:45 PM No.105902065
>>105902043
HD video playback is HW accelerated so it works on even a shitty $10 Chinese Android TV box. Just disable Google Play services, load up Kodi 18.9 and you're good to go. The problem is when you're using streaming services and they try to push you codecs that aren't accelerated.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:17:02 PM No.105902073
Girls get the ICK if you don't have a flagship phone, sad but true
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:17:50 PM No.105902079
>>105902073
that's a US-only problem
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:18:04 PM No.105902081
>>105902073
That's an American thing. If you go to Asia none of them care. They all want an iPhone but none of them have one.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:18:36 PM No.105902088
>>105902073
Don't care, still not giving them my dick.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 2:38:38 PM No.105902220
>>105902073
Only when they gauge you for being shekel provider to them, like somekind of kikes.
If they are judging you over that then they never intended to give you sexxo anyways, only dangle the possibility of it in front of you, like a carrot on a stick to keep the stupid donkey going pulling the cart on ahead.
If that's what you have in life, then you lost.
t. 5 years old flagship owner, no reason to upgrade.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 3:36:17 PM No.105902677
>>105902073
>Girls
What kind of phones to gays (homosexuals) have?
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:09:16 PM No.105902953
>>105899122 (OP)
Because they literally don't operate on some of the biggest carriers.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:19:11 PM No.105903047
>>105899122 (OP)
Chinkphones are fine, but I wanted something with stock Android and which had a similar shape and design to my Galaxy S8, so I got a Motorola Edge 40 instead.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:23:58 PM No.105903092
>>105902073
>best seller phone on amazon
>USA
>Samsung Galaxy Ultra
>Germany
>shitty sub-$200 Galaxy budget phone and the budget iphone
Mutt only issue
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:43:07 PM No.105903232
>>105901981
ones with executives in western countries paying themselves big fat salaries
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:44:08 PM No.105903241
how does it do compared to /ourphone/ cmf 2
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:45:58 PM No.105903260
>>105899122 (OP)
Because Chang is still seething about their century of humiliation and keeps putting fucking tiny neutered batteries in the international version of their phones.
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:48:59 PM No.105903289
>>105899122 (OP)
>locked bootloader
>ads in the UI(i'm not kidding)
no thanks
Replies: >>105903308
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:51:16 PM No.105903300
why is it so hard to find a phone in 2025 with a fucking microsd card slot?
Replies: >>105903362
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:52:26 PM No.105903308
>>105903289
>he doesn't know Xiaomi allows unlocking the bootloader and you can flash a rom from xiaomi.eu with all the ads stripped out
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:52:48 PM No.105903313
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>>105899122 (OP)
Meanwhile...
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:55:05 PM No.105903339
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>>105902677
Iphones
Replies: >>105903393
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 4:57:29 PM No.105903362
>>105903300
Sony has them
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 5:00:57 PM No.105903393
>>105903339
Is this literally just an iPad with a gay pride wallpaper?
Because that's what it looks like.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 5:04:55 PM No.105903426
>>105903260
beggars can't choose
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 5:22:18 PM No.105903594
>>105899122 (OP)
>curved screen edge
>no jack
no thanks
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 5:39:46 PM No.105903766
>>105903260
no it's becuaee of the samsung note 7 fiasco. They don't want a repeat of that so they give us smaller batterys
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 7:46:57 PM No.105905001
>>105900049
>Disposable
Xiaomi phones are rock solid, my old redmi note 9 is 5 years old and has had zero problems after installing a custom rom.
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 7:48:16 PM No.105905021
>>105899122 (OP)
MIUI and HyperOS is such pure distilled diarrhea concentrate. It really boggles the mind how you can put so much effort in and still make me want to frisbee my phone into the nearest brick wall.

My dad got a new work phone (some POCO pos) like the rest of the team and I wonder what kind of retard gives computer illiterate boomers work phones that actively serves ads to its users.

>>105903308
>*bank app blocks u*
Fuck that shit. I have to jump more and more hoops every month just to keep this shit useable.
inb4
>He uses banking apps
You don't have a choice anymore. My bank doesn't even a customer service phone line for non business customers.
Replies: >>105905211
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:04:52 PM No.105905211
>>105905021
my bank's app works fine on google-less Lineage
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:12:00 PM No.105905264
>>105899122 (OP)
>why retards still buy western phones is beyond me
Long time Xiaomi buyer who now has google fi and gets insane discounts like A36 5G for 100 bucks on their shop.

Xiaomi just has unpredictable battery life outside the first month or two of use, don't even get me started on HyperOS/MIUI updates that fuck your device. After an upgrade yo basically need to factory reset->debloat->let battery go to 0->slow charge and maybe have some decent battery life similar to how you bought it in under a year ago
Replies: >>105906776
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:17:41 PM No.105905321
>>105899122 (OP)
But can it run lineage?
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Anonymous
7/14/2025, 8:44:06 PM No.105905593
giphy
giphy
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>>105899122 (OP)
"you know I'm not to fond of chi-"
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 10:28:36 PM No.105906776
>>105905264
>Xiaomi just has unpredictable battery life outside the first month or two of use
weird, all the Xiaomi devices I've had have been fine on that front. my old Redmi Note 6 Pro still works fine, though I gave it to my mom when I bought my current Redmi Note 10 Pro 4 years ago. that RN10P still has incredible battery life for its age, I charge it like once a week
>don't even get me started on HyperOS/MIUI updates that fuck your device
that I can't say, I never keep the stock ROM beyond the week that is required for unlock. MIUI/HOS sucks balls and I'm not gonna use it, period. Lineage is a million times better
>>105905321
a lot of Xiaomi devices can, yes. Xiaomi is very popular in Street Shitting Land so Xiaomi devices with snapdragon SOCs are very likely to get it at least unofficially since some jeet will probably pick it up
Anonymous
7/14/2025, 10:36:00 PM No.105906857
>>105899135
Literally everyone in spg posting about chink phones is Indian.