New phones very disappointed with what's out there
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My contracts up next month on my p20 pro and there doesn't seem to be anything at all out there to challenge the Chinese spy phone really. Unfortunately I've smashed both the glass lens covers for the cameras so they don't work brilliantly these days and it's a bit beat up but I really can't see anything that's worth spending 30+ a month on at all.
Anything new going to revolutionise the mobile industry in the next few months?
Anything new going to revolutionise the mobile industry in the next few months?
I've been hooked on the iphone carousel for a few years but due to circumstances beyond my control (a wife with a propensity for damaging phones but with more need for it than me due to her business) I somehow ended up on my £38 a month contract but with an old 6S with a battery life of about 14 minutes
I went out last week and spent £140 on a Motorola One Macro rather than another iphone and have to say I'm impressed with it so far for what I need it to do
As it stands will be more than happy to go to a SIM only contract when it's due in Feb and save myself £30 a month!!
I went out last week and spent £140 on a Motorola One Macro rather than another iphone and have to say I'm impressed with it so far for what I need it to do
As it stands will be more than happy to go to a SIM only contract when it's due in Feb and save myself £30 a month!!
Not ground breaking, but it is much cheaper.
Moto G 5G.
https://www.techradar.com/uk/reviews/moto-g-5g-plu...
Moto G 5G.
https://www.techradar.com/uk/reviews/moto-g-5g-plu...
rustyuk said:
Get an Indian Spy Phone - The Realme Pro 6 !
I've just taken delivery of a S20 and it's identical to the S8 but Wifi Calling doesn't work. It's going back and I'll stick with the realme!
Realme is Chinese, not Indian:I've just taken delivery of a S20 and it's identical to the S8 but Wifi Calling doesn't work. It's going back and I'll stick with the realme!
Parent organization: BBK Electronics
Founder: Sky Li
Founded: 4 May 2018
Headquarters: Shenzhen, China
I'll never buy a Chinese phone for as long as I can help it.
Some people are just happy with new thing whether they are better or not though, bloke at work who travels from Yorkshire to Bucks twice a week traded his 55 plated Passat 1.9TDI estate for an 06 plated Suzuki Grand Vitara petrol because it was newer, Passat had cruise control, full leather etc but he did it because the Suzuki was "newer"
mygoldfishbowl said:
Funk said:
Realme is Chinese, not Indian:
Parent organization: BBK Electronics
Founder: Sky Li
Founded: 4 May 2018
Headquarters: Shenzhen, China
I'll never buy a Chinese phone for as long as I can help it.
Why not? Genuine question. Parent organization: BBK Electronics
Founder: Sky Li
Founded: 4 May 2018
Headquarters: Shenzhen, China
I'll never buy a Chinese phone for as long as I can help it.
https://www.chrisdcmoore.co.uk/post/oneplus-analyt...
https://betanews.com/2017/10/11/oneplus-telemetry/
Swore I'd never have another OnePlus at that point - Chinese phone company collecting data off to who-knows-where without consent? f
k THAT. I'd even opted out of allowing any data collection when setting up the phone initially. Every single Chinese company is obligated to provide information to the Chinese governmenton demand, one of the reasons Huawei are being booted out of the UK's phone infrastructure for example. Also why the rise of TikTok is so worrying."When US officials were pressed in early 2019 to provide evidence that Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, had facilitated spying on the US and its allies, they pointed out that Beijing had already made their case for them: first with the party’s systematic infiltration of private companies, and second with the introduction of a new national intelligence law in 2017. The law states that “any organisation and citizen” shall “support and cooperate in national intelligence work”."
Yes I give up a certain amount of information to companies like Google by using Android - however they can, at least, be held to account for their practices. Importantly, I've also consented. I don't want data about me (especially from something with as much personal information in it as a phone) being collected without my knowledge or consent by a company that may be obligated to give that information to a foreign government which can't be held to account - furthermore, they have no need or right to collect or gather information on me.
Since then I've also now extended my avoidance of Chinese stuff as far as possible for moral reasons. I can't avoid everything (they've got their fingers in too many pies for that) but I'll do what I can.
Edited by Funk on Monday 17th August 14:16
P30 Pro is serving me well and nothing new is good enough to replace it. Runs everything well incl some heavy games that I've tried
If China is spying I've also bought my wife the same phone. Hopefully they read all her messages and listen to her calls and the pure crap and boredom will stop them quick enough!
If China is spying I've also bought my wife the same phone. Hopefully they read all her messages and listen to her calls and the pure crap and boredom will stop them quick enough!
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