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by dbtc 949 days ago
What phone would you buy right now if needed one?
3 comments

Asus and Sony are still holdouts in the premium price range, Motorola and OnePlus in the budget range, and also a number of Chinese manufacturers I think
Sony, AFAIK, still gurantees boot unlocking, so, they're cool. But the price...
I have an xcover 6 pro that I adore!

Pros:

- incredibly durable; in the first week I had it, it slipped out of my pocket and was run over by a car, screen side down. No lasting damage aside from a few marks on tne glass

- headphone jack

- expandable storage

- removable battery

- dock-rechargable (which makes up for its lack of wireless charging)

- pretty clean android skin, cleaner even than my Pixel (which had a nonremovable google search box)

- has 3 programmable buttons, each with two options, so you can have hardware that launches your most used/time-sensitive apps. I have one mapped to Shazam, for example.

Cons:

- pretty big

- cant remove some samsung apps

- not a great camera or flashlight

Overall i would definitely buy another!

I bought a new phone a few months ago. Galaxy A14 5G. Of course, it's an extreme budget phone, but it works fine for me and - because there's less pressure to go for flatness - it has a 3.5mm port. In my experience, lots of budget phones still have them.