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Albeniz

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My maid's phone is spoilt so I am thinking of getting her the most basic android phone for her so that she can whatsapp and video call home.

Any recommendation for a cheap, workable model?

I just need something rather basic. 

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1 hour ago, Albeniz said:

My maid's phone is spoilt so I am thinking of getting her the most basic android phone for her so that she can whatsapp and video call home.

Any recommendation for a cheap, workable model?

I just need something rather basic. 

How basic is basic?
Xiaomi

OPPO

You think good enough 

She may think otherwise 

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Albeniz

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29 minutes ago, inlinesix said:

How basic is basic?
Xiaomi

OPPO

You think good enough 

She may think otherwise 

Managed to look for a Redmi 9A 64G, 4GB RAM at ~$130 from Shopee which comes with a 6 month warranty.  Reviews seem not too bad..

It is more of a gift for her so that she can call back home (she broke hers).   She can't choose, as it is a gift from me.  

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8 hours ago, Albeniz said:

Managed to look for a Redmi 9A 64G, 4GB RAM at ~$130 from Shopee which comes with a 6 month warranty.  Reviews seem not too bad..

It is more of a gift for her so that she can call back home (she broke hers).   She can't choose, as it is a gift from me.  

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this is the most basic xiaomi, good for secondary phone. Have your purchase? if not sometimes can get at $99 during sales.

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Tkseah

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8 hours ago, Albeniz said:

Managed to look for a Redmi 9A 64G, 4GB RAM at ~$130 from Shopee which comes with a 6 month warranty.  Reviews seem not too bad..

It is more of a gift for her so that she can call back home (she broke hers).   She can't choose, as it is a gift from me.  

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Raise budget a bit lah.. models liks Poco m5 @$185 are newer, faster n better.. and she will love u all more.. 

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Lala81

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On 2/12/2023 at 9:32 PM, Blueray said:

Android phones from China transmit personal info without consent, researchers say

https://news.yahoo.com/android-phones-china-transmit-personal-170456705.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

Haha I just bought my wife an export set oneplus 10pro on Tues. 

1 month warranty but 738 for a last year flagship (except for camera system) is too good to pass up. 

A find X5pro (essentially same phone with slightly better camera) local set is 1048. A pixel 7 256gb is 1150.

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Albeniz

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4 hours ago, Tkseah said:

Raise budget a bit lah.. models liks Poco m5 @$185 are newer, faster n better.. and she will love u all more.. 

Haha...but NO!

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Kb27

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On 2/27/2023 at 10:10 PM, Lala81 said:

Saw this on Fb. and there are multiple Singaporeans complaining about this post android/system update on their phones. All rejected by service center. 

https://mustsharenews.com/green-line-samsung-phone/

 

Last time, my wife's Samsung Note 9 also similar problem. But it's green horizontal lines across the phone.

I found on the internet, it's a software issue, then follow their advise to install another app which controls the brightness. Somehow this fixed the problem and we use the phone until it died.

So this is not the first time, Samsung has screwed up. But if their support fails as the previous time, then their reputation is quickly going down the drain.

Apparently, it's a software issue, and not a hardware problem.

I already had bad experience with Xiaomi CS. I don't expect much from Oppo or OnePlus CS either, although I haven't experienced any failure yet. Hopefully the phone lasts around 5 yrs, and it's cheap enough just to replace them.

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Watwheels

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Put a green line on the screen so that users will go replace the screen. What a great idea$.

Doesnt Samsung engineers update the software on their own test phone to run it first? This seems to tell ppl that they dont do that. Or do they just run a loop test and call it a day? Or do they use an iphone? So no care given to their company's phone?

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Blueray

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my personal POV is that for Android phones, 2 Android updates is the max the hardware can take. unlike Apple where the architecture is consistent.

3 months ago saw a pending update on my mum's Poco, so press download and update lor. after that screen went blank and phone could not be booted. what followed was a month long ding and dong with Xiaomi customer service and Xiaomi service centre. 

phone was eventually repaired (motherboard changed) and now I just dont update anymore. Just leave it on Android 11 / MIUI 12. 

after this will be Oppo cos the warranty is 2 years whereas Poco is just 1 year.

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On 2/27/2023 at 11:35 PM, Kb27 said:

Last time, my wife's Samsung Note 9 also similar problem. But it's green horizontal lines across the phone.

I found on the internet, it's a software issue, then follow their advise to install another app which controls the brightness. Somehow this fixed the problem and we use the phone until it died.

So this is not the first time, Samsung has screwed up. But if their support fails as the previous time, then their reputation is quickly going down the drain.

Apparently, it's a software issue, and not a hardware problem.

I already had bad experience with Xiaomi CS. I don't expect much from Oppo or OnePlus CS either, although I haven't experienced any failure yet. Hopefully the phone lasts around 5 yrs, and it's cheap enough just to replace them.

This green line problem only happen on Note? Other Samsung phone model have?

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On 2/28/2023 at 8:26 AM, Blueray said:

my personal POV is that for Android phones, 2 Android updates is the max the hardware can take. unlike Apple where the architecture is consistent.

3 months ago saw a pending update on my mum's Poco, so press download and update lor. after that screen went blank and phone could not be booted. what followed was a month long ding and dong with Xiaomi customer service and Xiaomi service centre. 

phone was eventually repaired (motherboard changed) and now I just dont update anymore. Just leave it on Android 11 / MIUI 12. 

after this will be Oppo cos the warranty is 2 years whereas Poco is just 1 year.

It sounds like they deliberately install a flaw in the system so that after using 1 or 2 years the phone will die. Time to buy their new phone that has just launched. Haha...

I wont be surprised if this were to be true. I mean iphone slow down the performance of their older models. I think other phone makers will do smth similar. It is a phone making business, what else can they do to improve their profits? It is to keep ppl buying their new phone time after time.

Why are ppl buying cloud storage? I think it is this reason too. Backing up their important photos in case the phone OS crashes.

It is a conspiracy maybe but it is generating business directly or indirectly. It is hard to investigate especially for the Android system cos it is an open system whereby the developers of various companies have access to it. So what if the firmware update has been hacked? And the phone company dont even know it until much later.

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On 2/28/2023 at 8:45 AM, Watwheels said:

It sounds like they deliberately install a flaw in the system so that after using 1 or 2 years the phone will die. Time to buy their new phone that has just launched. Haha...

I wont be surprised if this were to be true. I mean iphone slow down the performance of their older models. I think other phone makers will do smth similar. It is a phone making business, what else can they do to improve their profits? It is to keep ppl buying their new phone time after time.

there was another Poco user with exactly the same problem at Xiaomi service centre that day.

anyways, am not into expensive high end phones so every 2 - 3 years change one midrange phone is about right for me. 

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Tkseah

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Think I'm gonna give this moto edge a try.. hope it works well in SG.. promo price seems like a good deal.. recent 2022 model, dimensity 1050, 6.6" 144hz OLED, 8/256gb, good promise of software updates, decent reviews..

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Lala81

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On 3/5/2023 at 8:24 AM, Tkseah said:

Think I'm gonna give this moto edge a try.. hope it works well in SG.. promo price seems like a good deal.. recent 2022 model, dimensity 1050, 6.6" 144hz OLED, 8/256gb, good promise of software updates, decent reviews..

IMG-20230305-WA0000.jpg

Amazon selling. No wonder. Read some good things about it at the low mid range level. 

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