WhatS your current choice of cell phone?
I'm up for an upgrade, currently have an S5 active and I really like it and am actually considering jut keeping it.
Anyone have a new smart phone they'd share some pros/cons over the older one?
My biggest thing with smart phones is battery life, my S5 might be a little outdated but it's battery life is awesome and will usually last 1 1/2-2 days depending on usage where as my friends S7 edge has to be charged daily. I also like that if it glitches or something I can pull the battery out.
Why did that picture make me feel so comfy?
>>54861085
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If you are in the US, I can recommend the ZTE Axon Pro if you want a cheap yesteryear flagship device and do not care for custom Roms. You could also get an LG G4.
>>54860841
>cell phone
cell phone
>cell phone
cell phone
>cell phone
fucking americans not even once. its called MOBILE phone ffs
I have a Nexus 6p, it's pretty nice imo. Definitely a much better battery life than my S5, but unfortunately not removable (and no SD card slot either, although it has 128gb, which is enough for me personally)
Marshmallow is pretty gud, compared to Lollipop.
Of course, it's much bigger than the S5, so I don't know if that's a deal breaker to you.
>>54860841
Ask the smartphone general you autistic fucktard.
Motorola Moto X is what I just switched to from a Samsung Galaxy Note 3, this is a great phone for the price!
>>54863001
Pure edition
>>54861995
a MOUBAIYAL PHON
Still on a Galaxy Nexus here, running the FML 5.1 rom
pic related
>>54861995
No, it's not, fuck off, it was invented here.
I still have my s5 and I agree it's really held up well. They recently unlocked the bootloader on the Verizon version so I put CM13 and Android 7 on it.
BlackBerry Q10
>>54863443
I want a Classic for the trackpad but the unremovable battery really turns me off
>>54863443
I really wish they had more side buttons, like a button for the camera and an extra button you could map to whatever you wanted like the older ones.
I have yet to really use one of these in person, but I really liked the older BB OS and haven't really seen how the new one works.
I am very seriously considering going with an old 9930 and just living with not having apps.
>>54863507
Q10 is fucking dogshit. If you buy a blackberry that doesn't have physical call/end/trackpad you should just buy something else.
>>54861995
>>54863512
>button for the camera
volume button
>>54863530
I couldn't care less about the toolbelt. If they released a Q10 with just a trackball between the keyboard and screen it'd be the perfect phone. I'd settle for the Classic if I could swap the battery but I'm probably just going to stick with the Q10 for another couple years.
>touchwizz
The LG G5 is forests sweet. Look it up.
I'll be getting a Xiaomi Mi5 soon because it's cheap, has good performance and dual sim.
>>54863507
there's no such thing as
>unremovable battery
>>54863823
>my battery died, better pull out the soldering iron
Great fucking idea anon
>>54863851
you only need to replace the battery when it doesn't hold a charge anymore, so once every 4-5 years probably.
Classics battery lasts for 3 days with moderate use. Unless you play android games, of course. Then it'll die in 4-5 hours.
>>54863950
I replace the battery every three days when my phone dies, 10 second recharges are not something I'm going to give up.
>>54863851
>my battery died, better get the charger
How hard is that? If you don't charge your phone every night when you are asleep why would people feel sympathy?
Otherwise just buy a small 10ah charge pack or something and keep it in a bag or car. The only thing removable batteries were good for on blackberries was doing a hard reboot when it locked up.
>>54863978
you'll have to, eventually. Removable batteries are becoming rarer and rarer with each new generation of phones.
>>54864007
That is the dumbest fucking thing I have ever seen. And it is just someone either making shit up or literally purposefully making their life more complicated for no reason at all.
>>54864027
I'm aware, but for the next few years I'll be sticking with my Q10 and its removable battery. I'm not giving up such a thing until I have to.
>>54864036
You don't like it. Cool. I don't give a shit. Why would I willingly be tied to a charger for a few hours when I can just pop in another battery and be done with it? My phone hasn't been plugged into a charger in over six months.
>>54863443
you should just get a flip phone at that point.
>>54864093
Where is the logic in that?
>>54864056
You literally cannot argue in favor of your fuckretarded plan. You plug the phone in when you sleep.
Instead you are tired to carrying around a fucking battery with you. Dumb as fuck.
>>54863001
Same here bruh. What color? Capacity?
Also for micro SD cards, what brands are good for high sustained write speeds? I have a button of the barrel Kingston rebrand in mine now but I'm lucky to see 10MB/s for large files. Was considering the Samsung pro+ 64gb. Claims 95/90 sustained read/write.
>>54864119
I don't carry a battery you dumbass. If my phone doesn't have enough battery to make it till I get home I swap it before I leave, if it does, I swap it when I get home.
>bother plugging in phone every night
or
>three or four days pass
>battery getting low
>I don't think I'll make it through the day
>swap battery, put dead battery in charger
>when phone is close to death, pull battery from charger and put other battery in charger
Not that difficult of a concept to comprehend.
>>54864167
Shit I fucked up the order a bit but you get the idea, the only phone related thing I carry is my phone
>>54864167
>Plugging phone in at night is too much trouble
Okay kid. Whatever helps you sleep at night (literally).
>>54864210
You're literally telling me to make it more of a hassle than it needs to be just because I can.
Got an OPX a few days ago to replace my Galaxy S. I underestimated how significant the extra width is, I have big hands and it's a little uncomfortable one handed. Speakers suck shit compared to the S but it's not like they matter.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 (Snapdragon 650).
Probably the best price/performance phone out at the moment, plus it has aa micro SD card slot and a 4Ah battery with SOT of up to 9 hours
>>54861995
It's called a smartphone, actually.
>>54864167
>being this lazy
found the underage
>>54867358
>making things easier on yourself means you're lazy
Sure thing kid
>>54867383
>plugging your phone in right before you go go sleep is hard
>>54867391
Where did I say it was hard?
>>54867391
>>54867383
>making things easier for me
Saying that implies it was difficult in the first place. Also, why wouldn't you want to start the day off without worrying about how much power you have?
>>54867418
>Saying that implies it was difficult in the first place
No it doesn't, it implies things are more difficult than they could be. Difficulty isn't a binary thing, there's more than very hard and very easy.
>why wouldn't you want to start the day off without worrying about how much power you have?
I don't anyway. Given my phone averages 4 days battery, I only check after it's been a few days. If the battery's sort of low, I pop in a new one for a full charge. Like I said earlier, you're literally telling me to make things more of a hassle than it has to be just because I can. It makes absolutely no fucking sense. Why the fuck do you care if I do this anyway? Carry on charging your phone every night, I don't care how you do it, why should you fucking care how I do it?
>>54867463
Why is charging your phone a hassle again? Oh wait, it isn't. Are you 15 or something? Why do you care so much about something that takes 5 seconds?
>>54867483
>Why is charging your phone a hassle again?
Because it's simpler to just toss in a battery.
>Why do you care so much about something that takes 5 seconds?
Because in the same amount of time it takes to set my phone up to charge I can have a fully charged phone.
I have a Galaxy s7. My moto G 3rd Gen phone worked way better though. Much faster and longer battery life. Better signal for me too. My Galaxy S7 is supposed to have a better display, but it's too dim so I don't notice it anyway unless I raise it to maximum brightness. But that kills the weak battery. Overall I hate Android and prefer my BlackBerry Z30, except that's like 4 years old now. I'm probably jumping ships when NOKIA returns.
>>54860841
Redmi 3. Very satisfied considered I got it for $135. 2 GB RAM, Snapdragon 616, 4100mAh battery, MicroSD slot. Unlocked the bootloader and installed the Xiaomi.eu ROM and all is well.
>>54860841
Xiaomi mi4. Runs cyanogenmod flawlessly. went ass cheap now.
Nexus 5. No Google Play Services, Play Store or Google apps in general. Rooted and using variants. I can comfortably push seven hours screen time and almost 20 hours on standby. I was going to give up on this phone after three hour screen times. Replaced my battery and decided to ditch the Google label completely. So far it's made the phone worthwhile, but not completely.
Complete poorfag, bought an LG K10 for 150 euros. Europe's cucked though,only region without our of the box Marshmallow.
>>54868014
So you've bought a Nexus 5, a phone renowned for its shitty battery life, and bend over backwards to disable everything that makes it a smartphone in order to gain mediocre battery life. How is this not autistic?
Nokia Lumia 530 master race reporting in.
>>54868150
>disable everything
>he thinks Google Play Services is necessary for non-Google apps
lad...
>>54868462
Even many Google's apps work without their services. Like translate and maps.
>>54864167
>swapping a battery is easier than plugging in a cable
>>54868497
Maps can't work without Location Access enabled on Play Services, and asks you to enable it if you don't. Translate isn't proprietary (doesn't come out of the box, stock) so it wouldn't need integration.
>>54868521
About as difficult, one takes hours for the whole process to complete, the other takes mere seconds. So overall, battery swap is superior. Again, why should you care how I charge my device?
>>54868524
Location access does not depend on gapps.
Huawei p9. A fucking marvelous device.
>>54868534
>plugging in a cable takes hours
WOW
Did I dun goofed?
Replacing a Passport. I finally reached the breaking point of no apps.
>>54868553
No you fucking retard, the phone charging does.
>>54868547
Go to Play Services permissions, disable Location then go to Maps. Take screens of both and show me they can work independent of each other.
>>54868563
You are sleeping during that time.
>>54868568
Son, I don't have gapps.
>>54868585
Then trust me when I say that's the case because it's one of the main reasons I moved away from Google apps entirely.
>>54868577
Not always. I'd be plugging my phone in before I go to bed, not when. And again, the question none of you faggots have even tried to answer, why do you care so much about how I charge my phone? It affects you in literally no way whatsoever.
>>54868602
By the way, >>54868585 what's your alternative to the Play Store since you don't have Play Services? Or can you use it without PS?
>>54868602
I no longer understand you. I don't have gapps installed but I'm using their not shit apps. As I have shown you maps don't require play services to work.
>>54868623
Warez sites.
>>54868648
>warez sites
"Not installing Google Apps makes my phone more secure guys, fuck the botnet!"
>>54868462
>he thinks apps which require Google Cloud Messaging work without Play Services
>he thinks the majority of apps work without Location Services
Might as well just get a dumbphone, anon, with all the work you're putting in to de-botnet your phone. You still have a fucking personal tracking device. The authorities can still track your phone because of the closed source baseband.
>>54868701
>Not installing Google Apps makes my phone more secure guys
I never said that, I don't use them for purely practical reasons - more minimal setup and better battery life.
>>54868701
>he thinks it's a privacy issue
>he doesn't know it kills your battery
I still use HERE Maps, relax
>>54868712
What's your alternative to YT?
>>54868968
What's wrong with a browser?
>>54868987
Nothing. Just curious if you used alternatives like WebTube or NewPipe.
Huawei p9, Huawei Mate 8 or Nexus 6P? which should i get?
>>54864093
find me one with LTE, GPS, decent camera and a working browser and I probably will. (and not that fuckhuge samsung with android and 2 screens. There's no point)
>>54868968
Og YouTube. You can even still use your account.
>>54865597
I know the camera on the Pro version is bad, but how is it on this one in comparison?
LG G Flex 2, hoping to get another LG G4 soon as a replacement (had one but ended up selling it for reasons).
Flex 2 is a fine device overall, rooted it, installed custom thermal profiles, using GhostPepper as the governor, gets Antutu scores in the mid-80K range, no overheating issues, it works for me.
Volcano Red Sprint variant working on T-Mobile with no issues whatsoever, typical 80Mbps+ LTE speed tests so I'm happy with it.
Is Huawei P8 Lite any good?
nokia 130
Iphone 6 on a Verizon contract. Waiting to either get out of it or renew and upgrade to the 7.
>>54868521
>>54868534
>Turn phone off
>remove back
>take out battery
>put in new battery
>put back on
>reboot phone
OR
>Plug in cable
which of those is simpler?
Also speaking of hours for charging...my iPhone 6S takes like 2 hours to fully charge, maybe 3 if its completely flat. Thats with standard USB charging. You can use an iPod charger and it will charge a bit faster(Officially apple supported). If you had an Android phone with some form of quick charge its WAY faster than that.
For those that have any type of concern or worry about microUSB port wear, I offer this as an alternative:
www.ebay.com/itm/371500874257
I got 4 of those recently for my devices (2 smartphones, 1 tablet, 1 other device) and they are fucking AWESOME to have. Wear and tear on a microUSB has become completely irrelevant to me entirely now and I'm thinking about ordering a few more just for future purposes.
The microUSB "tip" plugs into the microUSB port on the device, and it remains in place - the cable has a magnetic end on it ala the Apple MagSafe connectors and the chances of there being any potential ripping or yanking damage are nullified.
No I ain't a shill but I damned sure wish I had like a few dozen of these to sell for profit at the moment because whenever I show people these things on my devices they're like "OMFG THAT"S AWESOME (and it is) WHERE CAN I BUY ONE?!?!?!"
I really should buy a fuckload of these things while I can and make some quick turnaround cash.
But no, I'm being nice and passing along the info to you 4chan freaks, weirdos, and goobers just because I'm a nice guy (even in spite of me despising pretty much every last one of you fucks).
Merry Fucking Christmas
(note: ordering these from eBay's seller means you could be looking at up to 4 weeks for delivery, took mine 23 days to get here but god dammit they were worth every second of the wait)
>>54863476
They finally unlocked it?!
Is there info on XDA about it?
>>54860841
I need some help too, my friend had a OnePlus one and lost it and has to use a shitty s3 mini that they hate. What's a good upgrade to the OnePlus one? Something with a decent battery life. My friend wants to upgrade as opposed to get a new OnePlus one
Huawei master race
>>54874152
>which of those is simpler?
Swapping the battery
And AGAIN, why should you care how I charge my phone?
>>54874455
The OnePlus X is a nice upgrade from the original, not a super massive powerful device but still a nice piece of hardware if he/she wants to stick with that company.
You can find the OPO 64GB models used for like $200-250 USD these days, if even that much.
>>54874875
No she doesn't want to stick with the company but rather feel less bad about losing the phone by buying an upgrade as opposed to a replacement. Bigger battery is a must though
>>54867505
no, since you have to shut down your phone and then boot it back up again
>>54874946
Then the sky's the limit I suppose, she'll have to figure out what she wants in a smartphone and perhaps then you can help her narrow the choices down to something she finds appealing on those aspects.
>>54874982
Still simpler. And for the sixth time, why the fuck do you care?
>>54875060
because you are on the >muh removable battery side when we could be getting phones with bigger batteries built in if we didn't have to cater to faggots like you
>>54875009
I'm struggling to find a phone with superior specs to the oneplus one, that also has a bigger battery for 400ish euros
>>54875081
just wait for the oukitel k6000 premium or go with the rn3p like everyone else
>>54875080
You're actually in favour of not being able to take the battery out of your phone? Holy fucking retarded.
>>54860841
>>4853850
>>4853850
>>4853850
WHY DON'T YOU SEARCH
Get nexus
Port gentoo
The autism will shine through your pocket
>>54875126
Yes. Because batteries last 2-3 years and we have high density portable chargers now that take up the same space as a replacement battery on-the-go. I'd rather cram an extra 500mah of power in my phone than have a removable battery mechanism instead.
And like anon said earlier, all batteries are replaceable. If you have to take apart your phone once every 3 years, big deal.
>>54875188
I'd rather not need a soldering iron for what's been a simple fix for decades. Sorry, I've just always been in favour of moving forward, not in reverse.
>>54875217
you don't need a soldering iron you moron, that anon was just making a joke/point
most non-removable batteries are connected by a ribbon cable and held in place by some hot glue
>>54875217
>having less battery capacity to cater to autists is progress
>>54875250
>you don't need a soldering iron you moron,
Wouldn't know, I've never been stupid enough to buy a phone with an unremovable battery.
>most non-removable batteries are connected by a ribbon cable and held in place by some hot glue
I'd still rather not need to dismantle my phone for what used to be a simple upgrade. As I previously said, I'm in favour of progress. Making things harder to upgrade is the exact opposite.
>>54875269
Hey you can choose whatever piece of shit you want, nobody's stopping you.
>>54875293
>I'd still rather not need to dismantle my phone for what used to be a simple upgrade
>upgrade
no, an 'upgrade' is quick charging capabilities, not sticking to the status quo
>>54875320
Alright you fucking twat, I'd rather not need to dismantle my phone for what used to be an extremely simple quick fix.
>an 'upgrade' is quick charging capabilities
You mean like the ability to go from a dead battery to a fully charged phone in 5ish seconds? Haven't you just spent half the thread bitching about how unnecessary that is?
>>54875379
Let's just see who winds up being on the wrong side of history to validate our opinions
>>54875422
I have no doubt that phone manufacturers are going to be playing in favour of your dumbass opinion, and I honestly couldn't give less of a shit. As I've previously stated I'll be sticking with my Q10 for the next few years. When it stops working well and comes time to downgrade, I'll either downgrade or just quit carrying a phone.
Posting from my new Nexus 6P 64GB and I'm loving it so far. Feels super smooth when moving between apps or browsing the Web, the screen is big but doesn't feel unmanageable (typing with one hand is just silly) and the build quality feels super solid.
Replaced my Xperia Z3 when it finally died on me after 20 months.
>totally not because I tried to demo it being waterproof to some friends in a swimming pool.
>>54875524
how does the camera compare to the z3?
>>54875081
Motorola Moto X Force (international version of the Droid Turbo 2) is a good choice and can be found for that kind of pricing (USD person here so, you'll figure it out). It's also unlocked from the factory and can be bootloader unlocked as well unlike the Turbo 2 here in the US.
Maybe it is just our university, but any student, even phd, is not the owner of the funded projects.
If they fund me to get an office, I am not allowed to keep living there once the project is done.
If they buy me a robot to test the project on, I don't get to take that home with me when I am done.
The code I write is licensed under MIT license, I have to hand that over to the university.
I can still use it and keep developing on it, but if the university decides to give this away to another student, I don't have a say in that.
When I write papers, the university gets involved, as supervisors, head of department, etc would like to get mentioned as co author.
If you want your own thing, stop relying on them.
There is no such thing as a free lunch
Note 4 is the best smartphone I've owned. I have a 10,000 mAh battery case attached, CM13 installed and my SOT times peak nine hours with a lower limit of about seven and a half. I leave everything on besides tethering, am a heavy social media user and music streamer. Standby times are usually two days and sometimes I hit three with about 20% which can last me the whole day. I'm never going back
>>54876287
>10000mAh
10Ah
>>54861085
because you faggots say everything is comfy now.
>>54861085
it's the water, now you know why all beer tv ads feature water (google it)
>>54865597
>650
>very powerful
???
>>54876309
Wish companies would start just saying Ah. But muh more digits = bigger number
>>54873933
these things are /fa/ af
