Anonymous
6/18/2025, 5:00:54 PM
No.105631464
>>105631375
I had the Note 8 Pro back in the day. Great phone. Crazy value for money considering it was sub-250 euro for the 6/128 variant. Modern Redmi Note Pro phones SUCK and are way too expensive. Back in 2019 MIUI was even praised for being feature-rich, while nowadays it's shamed for having ads and bloatware, that's how different the times were.
In 2019 it actually felt reasonable to have a few ads on my phone (that I disabled easily) and the UI to have some chinky quirks like not having an app drawer, in exchange for the amazing battery life, great performance (on par with SD 835), bright 1080p screen (albeit IPS 60hz, but that was the norm for 2019), and so on.
Modern budget phones just have way too many compromises. A friend of mine "upgraded" from the Note 8 Pro to a Note 13 (non-Pro) a year ago and is disappointed how shit the battery, camera and general UI responsiveness/performance are. I myself have long since moved past Redmi Note phones, but I do miss the incredibly battery life. None of my subsequent phones have been able to match it.
I had the Note 8 Pro back in the day. Great phone. Crazy value for money considering it was sub-250 euro for the 6/128 variant. Modern Redmi Note Pro phones SUCK and are way too expensive. Back in 2019 MIUI was even praised for being feature-rich, while nowadays it's shamed for having ads and bloatware, that's how different the times were.
In 2019 it actually felt reasonable to have a few ads on my phone (that I disabled easily) and the UI to have some chinky quirks like not having an app drawer, in exchange for the amazing battery life, great performance (on par with SD 835), bright 1080p screen (albeit IPS 60hz, but that was the norm for 2019), and so on.
Modern budget phones just have way too many compromises. A friend of mine "upgraded" from the Note 8 Pro to a Note 13 (non-Pro) a year ago and is disappointed how shit the battery, camera and general UI responsiveness/performance are. I myself have long since moved past Redmi Note phones, but I do miss the incredibly battery life. None of my subsequent phones have been able to match it.