• potustheplant@feddit.nl
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            6 months ago

            Yeah, that has a locked bootloader and even though they promised you’d be able to unlock it, they never provided a way to do so. There’s at least 1 case in which a user sued them over it and asus had to reimburse them.

            Not to mention all of the issues with their pc hardware. They’re a shit company and everyone should avoid them.

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              It was the last <6" flagship smartphone. Not sure what to replace my s10e with. The battery is failing and I didn’t get any security updates in a year. I could unlock the bootloader and put a custom rom on, but that blows the e-fuse in the SoC so bye-bye decent camera and possibly mobile banking too

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                6 months ago

                Sony Xperia 5V?

                Don’t know about that camera stuff but mobile banking doesn’t have any issues. I have the Sony phone I mentioned above, I rooted it and it has the grand total of 0 issues.

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                    6 months ago

                    For example? I mean, it is expensive but there are literally no other phones with the same chipset, an sd card slot and a headphone jack. Vote with your wallet, etc.

                    Tbf, I also got it for about $600 so in my case it wasn’t that expensive.