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I made the mistake of getting a moto G8 power lite. It's absolute crap not worth it at all the camera is balls and looks like im filming videos before cameras were invented. Battery life is decent but it's pretty laggy and it's stuck on Android 10. I'm actually going to a phone market today to scout out a new phone, leaning towards a used Pixel 5 because they are pretty cheap used.
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@CruN i somewhat agree with the camera experience but disagree with the performance .
my moto g 5g did not had the most fancy camera with all those live picture modes and other stuff. it had basic camera mode, a few video modes but overall took decent pictures.
however performance wise stock android 11 + 750g processor + 5000 mah battery gave a great performance in almost anything i would do. you might wanna increase your budget if you wanna get better specs, as mobiles < $250 tend to tick only a few boxes out of performance, camera, display, battery and ui.
and beware of refurbished/used phones. you may geta decent spec phone, but batteries of used devices are almost worn out. i once sold a good spec xiaomi device whose battery doesn't last even 40 minutes ;) -
About too aggressive battery optimizations, there is this website that shows a ranking of the worse brands in that matter. https://dontkillmyapp.com/
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@dotenvironment that's the thing, mine was brand new but it was the "lite" version, so it's only ever gonna have android 10 which sucks, and the camera is really bad even in broad daylight,let alone in the dark.
everytime i buy a new phone ,i feel this sense of extreme regret :(
i bought a moto g 5g phone last year in feb, it was so good . it didn't had any out of the world cameras or some funky stuff, but it gave a decent performance and i couldn't want any other phone.
In October my mom's phone started giving issues so i bought a realme phone for her that was half my phone's price. i couldn't spent any mor e because otherwise she wouldn't take it. she accepted the cheaper phone and within 4 days sue was cursing it. the phone had decent specs but would lag in certain apps like zoom, and won't run some call recorder apps. at the end i swapped my phone with mom's since i didn't cared about zoom or the recorder.
now this shit realme phone's memory has gone around 60% full of my stuff, and its showing its limitations. this shit auto relaunches insta after a few minutes of usage, probably because its runtime memory gets short( 4gb 128gb device gets memory shortages. nice). its video quality is shit and camera also takes rarely good pics.
the worst thing i like about smartphones today is how they over optimise the ui. this insta issue and auto call recorders not working is simply because of the realme skin running over the stock android. i had similar issues with a xiaomi device i bought for my dad sometime ago. (fortunately my dad is more medieval so that crap has not came back to me :'/ )
so overall i am buying a 3rd phone in 17 months.
This time it's Samsung f23 and am worried that it's also going to suck. i was this 🤏close to buying a pixel 6 or even an iphone coz i can afford them.
but the regret of buying such an expensive phone that will need replacement in 2 years made me rethink.
the only android os that have suited me the best is stock and as of now only 2 companies are making it : google and moto(* it's 100% aosp with 3 extra apps but they can't say that, so they also state that they are not stock os) . one plus is also a brand that i have heard makes a good os . but recently i also heard that they have completely scrapped their os and using oppo's softwares . plus the amount of tickets we get for notifications not working in oneplus, am sure their optimization is extremely aggressive.
so everything between a moderate price phone ( that will need a replacement in 2 years ) to a flagship felt unnecessary to me, so i went ahead with a Samsung's shit phone. f23 has almost same specs as moto but it's again a heavily customised os. i wanna waste my money on trying a custom os and declare it shitty.
most of my friends that use Samsung are fan of it but they are also not very techy so i guess it suits them well. i am the guy who first installs nova launcher in his device, so let's see what it brings on the table. from the 3rd person p.o.v, i felt its screen and camera images to he nice whenever i used their mobiles, so let's see what this brings to the table :(
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