[SOLVED]Want a NEW phone, don’t know what to buy, help?
August 5th, 2016
5.5″ and/or 6″ screen. 1080p or higher.
16gb space. dual/single sim.
Android. (please, NO iPhones!)
I am thinking the Moto X Play or the Huawei mate 7.
I like slim or no bezels. metal frame etc.
Thoughts?
MAX PRICE: £300!!!!!!!
I got the new Samsung Galaxy Edge 6+ it is a nice phone and even in use from 100% charge I get 24 hours of battery life. You can also put it in Power Save and Ultra Power Save modes have not needed them so can’t say how it changed the battery life. It has a 5.7″ display I believe and 32Gb storage.
Yeah, out of my price range if I’m honest.
Thanks, though.
Nexus 5 is a 5″ if you can find one. I generally don’t like branded devices mainly for A) the often laggy/ugly skin they put over android B) they can make it EXTREMELY difficult to get root access. With a nexus line device, thats easy. You install the drivers, issue a command line, load a superSU zipfile and you’re done.
Yeah, a Nexus 5 isn’t for me. The battery isn’t the best.
Thanks, though.
When is the new Nexus phone coming?
Nexus 5x is due a month or two from now
Moto x play has a pretty nice battery
No battery for any smartphone is the best, thats the nature of smartphones. With a tool like GreenPower installed on mine that automatically cuts wifi, mobile data, bluetooth and enables it only when i need to. Depending on usage my Nexus 5 can last me upto 3 days. As far as the nex N5, there hasn’t been ANY official statement from google. All the data on the web is nothing but speculation, although it looks like a new version yes there’s no official news.
I paid 449 AUD for a Mate 7 L09 model. 3 year Oceania warranty with DSE and went and got a Samsung UHS 128gb micro sd for another $40.
Loving this handset and will last me quite some time.
^Isn’t that running KitKat, though?
^Isn't that running KitKat, though?
If you cared more about security, Android is not the way to go, unless you get a brand that updates their software like mad.
android is pretty secure when it comes to nexus lines, its branded ones you need to worry about. Some are still only running lollipop 5.0 while there’s been multiple small and large updates to 5.1.1 now. And if it’s running kitkat or not, if it can be rooted and is strong enough you can flash a different rom on it.
^Isn't that running KitKat, though?
If you cared more about security, Android is not the way to go, unless you get a brand that updates their software like mad.
In the privacy sense, like permissions, Android is in a very sad state generally.
For security in the pure security sense, except the user being an idiot, you don’t have to worry about hacking for now.
@: i agree on the permissions sense. The amount of permissions some ask for is rediculous. One app i use (showbox) uses wants GPS? On that part android finally took a page out of iOS’s notebook with the upcomming Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Granular permissions. It’s about time. Ever app will get its permissions reset, and when you want to use a specific function a specific permission request will pop up for that permissions only.
Eg: fresh install of whatsapp > hit the mic button > mic use permission will appear. You’ll finally be able to install everything without permission popup from the play store. The OS will do the permissioning. Been long overdue.
When you talk about exploits etc it’s pretty darn safe. It’s very rare an exploit gets discovered and even rarer one with the looks of stagefright.
@: i agree on the permissions sense. The amount of permissions some ask for is rediculous. One app i use (showbox) uses wants GPS? On that part android finally took a page out of iOS's notebook with the upcomming Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Granular permissions. It's about time. Ever app will get its permissions reset, and when you want to use a specific function a specific permission request will pop up for that permissions only.
Eg: fresh install of whatsapp > hit the mic button > mic use permission will appear. You'll finally be able to install everything without permission popup from the play store. The OS will do the permissioning. Been long overdue.
When you talk about exploits etc it's pretty darn safe. It's very rare an exploit gets discovered and even rarer one with the looks of stagefright.
Yes, we finally have made it. We will have an opt-in policy rather than an opt-out one. I want to make the rules on my phone/tablet. Sadly right now, disabling specific permissions can even crash the app requesting them. I know that the important data can only be retrieved with root access. But still, having your contact informations, locations(I turn off it), and other data available to a shady developer it’s not the best we can opt for. Luckily Android 6.0 will make you select which permissions to use. If you don’t want to wait, in case you didn’t already know, there are privacy apps like PDroid that will let you select single permissions. Some apps don’t have the exceptions programmed for a refused permission and will crash. It’s more a hack than a solution; for the proper way of doing it, we need 6.0
All the people I know with an Android phones, never got hacked. Not all of them are intelligent so I don’t feel the immediate danger of a hacker menace.
Either the whole world has turned into users that can avoid perfectly malwares or this is not a large scale problem.
Solved. Thanks!