I know people doesn’t like Redmi/Xiaomi, but man what a punch for the money, and “malware” have been inexistant up until very lately (deep malware are everywhere). I bought a (the FX) file explorer for like 5€, there is a totally ok free version too and that’s the only thing I needed to have a nice experience (no pub, I know everything is probably tracked like on all phones).
Got the redmi note (pro?) 2 shipped from alibaba.com a long time ago for < 100€, then the 5, 7 etc.
Greatest value for sure, they all still work except the 5 that I went swimming with, I cracked the screen on the 7, …
The older ones also had swappable batteries (3000 mAh too!) and SD card slot when the concurrences had like 32GB for OS + everything else.
I’m not a fanboi but my 4 year old phone for 250€ has 6GB RAM & 128 GB storage…
Well, their newer phones do have a lot of shady things (even the 4x video player demands weird permissions), new mis, especially 11 series are known for being unreliable. I particularly hate the bootloader unlock experience, waiting time, issues with the app (on pc and phone), no linux and USB3 support (I had to use a vm in an old laptop). BTW, I’m angry as today I didn’t read the error messages properly and reset it. I wasted a day and now I have to wait another week (or more) to unlock it.
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I know people doesn’t like Redmi/Xiaomi, but man what a punch for the money, and “malware” have been inexistant up until very lately (deep malware are everywhere). I bought a (the FX) file explorer for like 5€, there is a totally ok free version too and that’s the only thing I needed to have a nice experience (no pub, I know everything is probably tracked like on all phones).
Got the redmi note (pro?) 2 shipped from alibaba.com a long time ago for < 100€, then the 5, 7 etc.
Greatest value for sure, they all still work except the 5 that I went swimming with, I cracked the screen on the 7, …
The older ones also had swappable batteries (3000 mAh too!) and SD card slot when the concurrences had like 32GB for OS + everything else.
I’m not a fanboi but my 4 year old phone for 250€ has 6GB RAM & 128 GB storage…
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Well, their newer phones do have a lot of shady things (even the 4x video player demands weird permissions), new mis, especially 11 series are known for being unreliable. I particularly hate the bootloader unlock experience, waiting time, issues with the app (on pc and phone), no linux and USB3 support (I had to use a vm in an old laptop). BTW, I’m angry as today I didn’t read the error messages properly and reset it. I wasted a day and now I have to wait another week (or more) to unlock it.