• 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.

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                    I wish it was 600 when it came out. In Europe it was 900€ and still is in many places, although it can be found around 800€.

                    As for features around the same price, for example Samsung s24 offers 7 years of software support compared to 4 at most I guess from Sony and 1 generation newer snapdragon.

                    But the s24 has several drawbacks for me: shitty bloated software likely with e-fuse blown if u try to root it, larger screen (6.2"), crappy underscreen fingerprint sensor(I love side-mounted capacitive), no jack, no sd.

                    I guess I will be stuck with the s10e for little while longer.