Thread 107156528

>What phone has X and Y feature?
Don't ask, use these!
https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3
https://www.kimovil.com/en/compare-smartphones
https://phonedb.net/index.php?m=device&s=query

Good Resources:
>Reviews
https://www.gsmarena.com
https://www.phonearena.com
https://www.notebookcheck.net

>Frequency Checkers
https://www.frequencycheck.com
https://kimovil.com/en/frequency-checker
https://willmyphonework.net

>Visual Phone Size Comparison
https://phonesized.com/
https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size

>Everything rooting and custom ROM related
>Beware carrier variants with locked bootloaders
https://www.xda-developers.com/

>Debloat your stock ROM
https://github.com/Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation

>Open source Android applications
https://f-droid.org/

>Android App compatibility list for de-googled phones
https://plexus.techlore.tech/

>Custom ROMs suggestions, privacy guides
https://gearjail.neocities.org/

>Recommended phones
https://www.gsmarena.com/smartphone_buyers_guide-review-2036.php

>Try out a real OS on your iToy
https://trygalaxy.com

>Post a mini-review of your phone
>Ignore and report the Apple troll that floods and spams /spg/
>Discuss upcoming and current models
>Ask for help related to phones
>Tell us how many shekels you spent on a good/bad phone

Previous thread: >>107141933

inb4 spammer chimps out in here

pepperidge farm remembers

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>>107156634
the baker is the iphone hating troll post spammer btw and same anon yhats in the last thread too

sony fucking lost they fjsishdnwodjww LOST

Reposting so that people HELP ME

>>107155487
I am not going to end up using that DSLR, I just know it. I have to shoot a lot of photos, but half the time it is spontaneous: I will have only my phone. Not to mention that with a more specialized camera I will also end up spending more time editing; something I really wish to avoid.
>>107150797
Not out. Expensive. Chinese approach to software.
>>107155499
Is it too underpowered? Where can I find a decent review, not just a vlog/ad or gsmarena assembly line review.

>>107156528 (OP)
What is this abomination. Not the tank

why do we have two SPG threads? the other thread hasnt even hit bump limit.

>aunt's five year old moto g got the new google photos editing options before my galaxy a55
lmao

Is there a non mediakek smartphone that's better in every way than my Poco X5 Pro 5G? No chink phones, no chink UI, no mediakek ~$350-$400

so I guess the Jannies are just gonna let the troll keep ruining /g/ and continuously troll /spg/ with apple and samsung hate
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>>107156415
Same troll baked another spg too. The baker is literally the iphone hating troll who abuses the reporting system >>107156528 (OP)

>>107157264
thanks for documenting it

in the age of device whitelisting, what best cell phone carrier in NA for chinese phones?

poco f5 still on top

>>107157502
tmobile is the best and that’s not saying much especially when it involves chinese phones

reminder that battery care is a meme and a waste of time to put responsibility on the consumer for poor battery life instead of the manufacturer

>>107157502
TMobile by far, but it's not that great either. They will be at the very least usable in urban areas.

>>107157597
What carrier has better compatibility in the USA overall? I have a CAN-US plan with a Canadian carrier that allows roaming on the big 3 in the USA. I also have postpaid AT&T but I know they do whitelisting natively, but if you roam onto their network, you aren't subjected to such restrictions. My Canadian carrier doesn't do any IMEI or EID checking to get an eSIM, they just send me a universal QR code. In theory I should be able to use whatever I please.

Can anyone explain to me why Cromite is using so much battery?

>>107157656
There's plenty of international visitors that use the various companies to roam. As long as the bands are there, they will typically ignore whatever you have - they want your home carriers money (or to honor their agreements). You may have some weird issues with stuff like voicemail and wifi calling, but the basic functionality should be there.

I've had non-listed phones on ATT postpaid before, but functionality fluctuated a bit. American telcos seem to use weird bands for the most part.

>>107157781
Yea and ATT doesn't like to provision anything for Wi-Fi Calling that isn't sold by them. Kind of obnoxious. It seems like the best way to use a USA carrier these days is to roam on them since they're so strict otherwise. A few years back I bought a blacklisted/stolen Galaxy Note off Facebook for 50 bucks and used it on the Big 3 through travel eSIM providers.

I'm missing the UMTS/HSPA days when just about anything worked since Voice was natively supported on the network without any proprietary tech.

2020-2025 Global Smartphone Sales!

>>107157954
Honestly, TMobile isn't too bad about it, assuming that the phone has the right frequency bands. Most of the pro models from China support pretty every band that would be needed, apart from some of the mm wave bands.

Please help me with a little data recovery. Gonna crosspost this on /sqt/ and /cyb/
I have a Galaxy Note10+ phone with a "half-working" screen. It got busted during a climbing accident. I need to recover the data on it. Particularly, I need the images and the text messages. Also optionally the data from a couple of applications.

>what does "half working" screen mean
When the phone is connected to a power source, I can see the top half of the screen, but the bottom half is black. The entire screen can be touched, so the phone can still be controlled by touch.

>just connect it to my PC via USB and recover the data
This doesn't work, it just freezes. I tried it on Windows and Linux. Neither ADB nor MTP works, at least not over USB. Gonna have to do it wirelessly.

>bluetooth/wifi tethering
If I can remote into the phone somehow, I could probably transfer my data out using 802.11 by using some kind of SMB share or something

>connect to an external screen somehow
This could work, but the question is what hardware would be required. Is there a way to do this with just a USB cable and a laptop? Like, control the screen of my Android with just a USB passthrough? I feel like this method works, but I'd need a USB--HDMI cable as well as some kind of USB splitter so I can also attach a mouse or something, unless I could attach a mouse via Bluetooth. Anyway, I don't think I'll need this old-school method if I just figure out how to wirelessly remote into the device from my PC.

>Samsung device backup
Never used this, how viable is it?

>extreme methods
I know if nothing else works, other techies have replaced the screen, or even desoldered the memory chip and took the data out that way. I don't think I'll need to resort to such extreme methods in this scenario.

You guys got any other ideas?

The iPhone 17 Pro Max landed in first place after rigorous benchmark testing. It had the best efficiency and thermals as well out of all the devices tested.

https://youtu.be/9goqPgwUVY0?si=LCqfXPXc0SqwzpJi

what’s the point of buying new phones when you can get something good on ebay for less money?

why are iphones so low quality?

Q2 2025 Top Selling Smartphones.
Q3 2025 Results Soon.
Only smartphones that offer the best experience and have an excellent customer service track record hold the top spots.
When will an Android be number 1 in the top 10 selling smartphones category?

https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smartphone-sales-top-10-best-sellers

>>107158331
As it should? It's not running lagdroid.

The A19 Pro beats the s25 ultra, oneplus 15, find x9 pro, xiaomi 17 pro max and the red magic 11 pro too. The new Apple M5 chips mog the Qualcomm X2-90, X2E-96-100 btw. That’s why the troll posts older Apple devices since they don’t want to post the truth about the current state of Apple vs Qualcomm chips.
OnePlus 15 >>107060799
Red Magic 11 Pro >>107060848
Find X9 Pro >>107060839
Xiaomi 17 Pro Max >>107158747

>>107157264
Jannies can't do shit because that faggot is using ecker ban evader site with infinite IPs and shitposting potential.

OnePlus won!!

The new snapdragon 8 elite gen 5 suffers from high levels of thermal throttling.

>During the first couple of passes, the phone managed to hold good peak performance, but as temperatures climbed, things quickly went downhill. By the end of the test, performance dropped by more than 50%. Under sustained load, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 actually performed slower than last year’s chip.

https://www.phonearena.com/news/the-snapdragon-8-elite-gen-5-is-fast-but-not-all-phones-can-handle-the-heat_id175544

>>107158746
yup >>107158921

>>107158331
>>107158858
>>107158921
Damn so it’s confirmed the A19 Pro in the iPhone 17 Pro moggs the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5.

>>107158896
Yeah, and they’re just randomly picking whatever stuff they wanna enforce to remove and letting other stuff just say it makes no sense. There’s so much shit that they left up from the troll.

>>107158972
>>107158962
>>107158936
>>107158921
>>107158896
literal schizophrenia kek

pixel 10 pro xl vs s25 ultra?

kek

iGot scammed

>>107159069
S25 ultra.

>>107159036
wrong

>pay for apple intelligence
>get google intelligence

Reminder the A19 Pro is a beast!
>>107049030
>>107049066
>>107049143
>>107158331
The anon that troll posts all the old devices and lies itt about smartphones, posted the iPhone 15 Pro Max vs Galaxy S23 Ultra vs Pixel 8 Pro gaming comparison post which got nuked. >>>>107121988

>>107159069
iPhone 17 pro max.

>>107159183
>>107159536
reminder your troll posts got nuked

>>107159558
reminder you still a broke bitch

Useless general.

>>107159558
your posts >>107158848

The more I look at things, the more I don't understand the Pixel 10 Pro (XL).
Why is the CPU so shit, when it doesn't even get you good battery life?
Why are the bevels so fucking huge? It goes beyond that, just look at pic rel, and how much screen is wasted!
Why is the telephoto shit, or not even usable, at distances people actually want, i.e., closeups?
I guess it has a couple of decent touches, and Google will sell it to you with year's worth of Gemini subscription, so if you're a Gemini user it's a nobrainer actually. But I like Claude.
I guess I do need to get one of the Chinese phones, or wait for the S26...

>>107159664
why do you worship google

Asias Smartphone Market Share 2023-now

Very interesting how they predominantly stay away from their own Asian brands.