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With my current phone contract ending in 2 month, I am looking for a new one currently and thus also for a new device. I am very much irritated by the trend of backside fingerprint scanners, and after playing with some in store, basically everything with that feature, is out. Currently the Huawei P10 doesn't look bad, especially on the price/performance side of things, looking how "flagships" are getting more and more expensive. Any recomendations based on own experiences of you lot? I tried to look around what is current and what isn't, but all the fucking models and sub-models are just too plentiful to really give enough fucks. I don't know which HTC or Sony is the latest one, I completely missed when Huawei went from 200 to 500+ EUR phones, hell even Apple while being a nonfactor seems to have more models than ever before..
Required:
- Neither Apple nor Blackberry
- Android as up2date as it gets, with chances for official updates as long as one can hope.. (so pref. coming with 7.x already)
- in the realm of 5" to maybe 5,5" screen, overall size of my Galaxy S6 is just fine, I don't want much more
- builtin storage not super important, but 32GB is probably the bottom line. if a ?sd slot is given, integrated storage becomes irrelevant
- I'd rather have too much ram than too little
- good and fast GPS is required
- fingerprint reader is at this point in time my preferred method of lock/unlock, so it needs to have that
- but as stated, NOT ON THE BACK! .. seriously.. who though that was a good idea?
- Oh yeah, if said phone is known to have reception issues compared to others, it is out. network around here sucks as it is.
Nice2have:
- better end of the spectrum camera
- the nerd in me wants 8 cores under any circumstance, but I know that 4 or 8 or whatever is a rather moot point depending on the actual processors..
- a battery that actually lasts 2 days! ... .. hahahah ok, nevermind..
Couldn't care less:
- metal? plastic? *shrug*
- edgy roundy fancy bla. If I need to worry about it sliding out of my hand when picking it up (looking at Samsungs Edge buggers), that is not a plus.
- fancy pants speakers to annoy everybody while walking down the street
- headphone socket or not
The price point is a rather unspecific one, since I'll be looking for a contract with it,.. so anything sub 500eur is probably going to be free, anything higher likely going to cost a little extra.. it'd probably more depend on how convincing the device is if I'm willing to pay extra.
If I forgot something, you'll probably ask it right away. Other than that, I hereby deem it your turn now!
Required:
- Neither Apple nor Blackberry
- Android as up2date as it gets, with chances for official updates as long as one can hope.. (so pref. coming with 7.x already)
- in the realm of 5" to maybe 5,5" screen, overall size of my Galaxy S6 is just fine, I don't want much more
- builtin storage not super important, but 32GB is probably the bottom line. if a ?sd slot is given, integrated storage becomes irrelevant
- I'd rather have too much ram than too little
- good and fast GPS is required
- fingerprint reader is at this point in time my preferred method of lock/unlock, so it needs to have that
- but as stated, NOT ON THE BACK! .. seriously.. who though that was a good idea?
- Oh yeah, if said phone is known to have reception issues compared to others, it is out. network around here sucks as it is.
Nice2have:
- better end of the spectrum camera
- the nerd in me wants 8 cores under any circumstance, but I know that 4 or 8 or whatever is a rather moot point depending on the actual processors..
- a battery that actually lasts 2 days! ... .. hahahah ok, nevermind..
Couldn't care less:
- metal? plastic? *shrug*
- edgy roundy fancy bla. If I need to worry about it sliding out of my hand when picking it up (looking at Samsungs Edge buggers), that is not a plus.
- fancy pants speakers to annoy everybody while walking down the street
- headphone socket or not
The price point is a rather unspecific one, since I'll be looking for a contract with it,.. so anything sub 500eur is probably going to be free, anything higher likely going to cost a little extra.. it'd probably more depend on how convincing the device is if I'm willing to pay extra.
If I forgot something, you'll probably ask it right away. Other than that, I hereby deem it your turn now!