Thinking of Getting a New Phone

[captainsousie]

Looking for a cheap(ish) phone to replace my ailing Samsung Note. Found a Pixel 7 Pro for not too much. Anyone have experience with it?

(No judgement but no iPhones please)

 

[bullet08]

I have Pixel 6. I don't have any problem with it, but on the Internet it seems a lot of people seem to keep their phone in their ass and try to dial it with their appendix. Otherwise, I don't know how they get into such problems.

 

[didimauw]

I love the Google pixels. Had the 5, now I think the 7? Very easy to use.

 

[condorlover1]

I would buy one of these...

 

[Servant King]

 

[condorlover1]

@Servant King : Not very portable but the sustainably manufacture phone case is rather nice.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

I switched from Apple to Android a few year back. I'll never go back to an iPhone. I just don't care to pay a premium for my phone anymore. Still have everything I need.
One thing a buddy taught me is the cheaper phones have less storage and I saw this as an issue. He told me to get the lower storage and put a large memory SD card in it. So storage is no longer an issue.

 

[Briar Lee]

Bite the bullet and pay $50 a month for the damned monopolist iPhone.

On a iPhone 15 they use a C charger, which they should have for five years.

The gadgets work.

As a phone they are no better than a trac phone.

But as a pocket computer toy nothing equals an iPhone.

 

[warren]

If the phone can't access a satellite in an emergency, I wouldn't consider it.

 

[condorlover1]

@warren : You just cannot beat the reliability of a flare pistol!

 

[jpmcwjr]

Yeah, flares work within a limited range, but satellites cover the world. I bet warren has both.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Yeah, flares work within a limited range, but satellites cover the world. I bet warren has both.

@warren ’s HS yearbook photo! Nothing he can’t rig!

 

[warren]

You just cannot beat the reliability of a flare pistol!

Sixty pounds of camera gear, 12 ga. w/ ammo, pipe, tobacco, winter gear, rations for emergency and you want me to add a flare pistol and flares. Can you find the time to be my sherpa?

 

[El Capitán]

I still have the galaxy a12. I only update when the phone breaks.

 

[condorlover1]

@warren : Sure. How much does it pay? Can I get to wear one of those neat Yak skin hats?

 

[ashdigger]

I used to be all android loved my note 5.

But when I switched to all digital field notes it was the death of android.

I’m now all in on the Apple ecosystem. iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch as well as earbuds.

Android will never touch the ecosystem. Sure they have some workarounds and hacks, but Apple does it seamlessly.

When I retire I’ll have a flip phone, but for now it’s the ecosystem

 

[mortonbriar]

Sixty pounds of camera gear, 12 ga. w/ ammo, pipe, tobacco, winter gear, rations for emergency and you want me to add a flare pistol and flares. Can you find the time to be my sherpa?

You want to hire a non smoking sherpa, @condorlover1 is just going to smoke through your stash of 3 star...

 

[sardonicus87]

I still have a Google Pixel 5 that's running Android 11 (I absolutely hate all the UI changes introduced in Android 12 and beyond, looks like it was designed for 80-year-old kindergartners and is as big a step backwards as a Windows desktop machine when Windows ditched the sensible start menu from Windows 10 on; fortunately for Win 10 there's a replacement classic shell and start menu, no such luck for Android 12+ on Pixel phones for a drop down menu that actually makes sense like on 11 and earlier).

Anyway, my Pixel 5 has been great. I dread when this phone bites it. Won't go with a Pixel again because of the UI changes from Android 12 and on, so that means probably going back to Samsung or someone that overrides those dumb UI changes, which means dropping fat cash I don't want to drop, and getting a phone that's way bigger in size than this, at least last I looked. Pixel 5 dimensions is the absolute largest I want to go and it seems all the phones, the smallest ones are 500x bigger than this. Like come on, I have a laptop, just give me a phone that'll fit in my pocket.

 

[burleybreath]

Works for me, although I usually have it turned off. I hate being called. It's always somebody wanting something. Ever notice?

 

[warren]

I should have mentioned, for those that don't know, I have heart problems, I want the paras in their helicopter and on the way, as quickly as possible. Satellite communication, where available, makes that possible.