After 15 years of smart phone use i finally have smashed screen, albeit from my son within 5 seconds of him answering a call for me.
anyway, i just signed onto a 12 month sim contract with virgin, so i need a new or secondhand phone ooutright.
any options that i can get quickly? ie: this week.
budget $25-$300 max.
Thanks.
$500 excess
and i think phones were excluded from accidental damage.
Came across this: https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/budgewoi/android-phones/sony…
Sony Xperia XZ, used to have a z3 which want bad.
Tell him/her (gender is fluid now) to get rid of his XZ after their probationary period…
GET
A
XIAOMI
15 years?. So what smart phone we're you using in 2002-03?.
sony ericsson p something it was still in the caveman era, but considered smart at the time.
what do people think of the HTC 10 EVO?
Depending on price and where you can get it I reckon it's a great device…
Nah, HTC lost their way a long time ago.
I think the HTC Windows Phone M8 was their last attempt at a decent phone. And in 2012, I would say they had the best flagship with the HTC One X (Snapdragon), actually superior to the small iPhone and the super
Get a used Samsung Galaxy S7.
Costs between $200 - $400.
Has the forth fastest processor^.
Has the second best screen out there^^.
Has the forth best camera out there^^^.
It also has a good body design WITH a high Screen-to-Body ratio^^^^.
Has great IP68 ingress protection AND 3.5mm aux port AND microSD slot.
Also has a great front-fingerprint scanner AND fast charging AND wireless charging.
And because it was/is a popular handset, there's plenty of hardware accessories for it. And decent ROMs too (Exynos).
….things that suck about it?
microUSB instead of USB-C. Lousy Speakers. TouchWizz. No software support.
Curved glass is NOT ergonomic, makes the direct-viewed screen smaller, and light rebounds annoyingly off the curvature.
Overall, you could say its the forth best phone (or Class) out there. Much better than higher priced midranger devices.
Footnotes:
^^after the iPhone X and S9. Virtually equal to the S8 and S6. But slightly better than the Note 3/S5 AMOLEDs.
^^^first-class belonging to the S9 Plus and P20, second-class belonging to the Pixel2 and iPhone X, third-class belonging to the U11, Pixel, and Note8. It's camera is on-par/class with the S8 Plus, V30, iPhone 7.
^^^^72.1% to be precise, much higher than the iPhone X and its non-16:9 letterboxing display.
^In terms of efficiency and performance, the Exynos version has slightly less efficiency, less single-core/floating point performance, and slower GPU than the QSD 820 version. But it does have a Total/Multi-core performance that's faster. Roughly speaking the Exynos 8890 is around 10% slower than the new QSD 845 and uses 10% more battery drain in real-world Applications. So I would say its still competitive today, just not next to the Apple A11-Bionic.
Moto G5 Plus
oppo a57 is a lot of phone for the dollars
or the samsung a5 isn't bad either in your price range
Upgrade your 12m sim only, they should let you recontract
buy new phone
nokia 3310
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can bring it down to ur price if ya negotiate probs
Don't buy an iPhone they aren't good value for money.
Apple is overpriced, an iPhone is just a fashion accessory, it's a social statement (popular with youth).
Once you buy an Apple product you'll be locked in to their ecosystem, you'll have no choice but to pay Apple's price, there is no third party, no competition, end of rant.
If I were you I'd get a cheapy supermarket phone to hold me, and get a China droid, they are excellent value for money, though the main area where a lot of them fall short is the camera.
If I could have any phone I wanted it would be this one.
Don't buy an iPhone they aren't good value for money
That depends what you're looking at. Myself and my friend both purchase a new phone every year by re-contracting and sell the old phone to cover the contract cancellation fee (which is just the handset RRP/24). One of us purchases the latest iPhone, whilst the other purchases the latest Samsung. The person who purchases the Samsung devices is invariably out of pocket ~$150 to $300 (that is to say that the cancellation fee, which is half the RRP of the phone, is $150-$300 more than what is yielded upon selling the current device), conversely, the person who purchases the iPhone is invariably $100-$250 in front. Apple devices hold their resell value exceptionally well, so the only equaliser in this sense is using your devices until they are dead.
One could make a very strong argument that this resale value is artificially maintained by the hype behind Apple products and I wouldn't necessarily disagree. But, regardless of the reason for it, Apple products typically have value for money (the same rings true if comparing the resale of a MacBook vs Windows Laptop).
Apple is overpriced, an iPhone is just a fashion accessory, it's a social statement (popular with youth)
See above regarding pricing. Furthermore, the GeekBench scores demonstrate just how far in front Apple is of Android devices; even the latest S9 series is still behind that of the iPhone, whilst the S8 was pantsed. iPhones achieve this greater performance with much less RAM, a less powerful processor, and a smaller capacity battery. There is only so much more that Samsung can add before there are physical limitations with respect to process size/power consumption and physical size of RAM. Conversely, iPhones have a ridiculous amount of headroom, such that if they matches the flagship Android devices on paper, they real world performance would not even be remotely close. If Apple weren't interested in trickling updates in order to maximise profits, then there would not be another horse in this race; but even despite Apple's insistence of bleeding every incremental upgrade dry, there is still value for money (as I demonstrated above).
Samsung can be overpriced as well so that may not be a best comparison.
For a VFM mobile, look at Chinadroids.
But they're not even remotely comparable to iPhones in quality, support, or performance
@Strahany: I can tell you that I have an iphone which has a faulty GPS, the support was useless and they refused to replace it.
I agree, the Mi Mix 2 looks like a great phone, I heavily considered it but in the end went for the Mi Max 2,
I couldn't be happier with it, it meets all my needs, has a bigger screen 6.5" and was a bit cheaper AU$290.00.
You always want at least 6.5 inches.
Wow that was a great buy.
I considered the max 2 but I thought it was too big and bought the Mi A1, when it arrived I thought wow this is a big screen, I've now gotten used to the size and can easily use it in one hand, it now seems kinda small…
When my Mi A1 dies the Xiaomi Max will be my next phone :).
lol, when the Mi Max 2 arrived I looked at the size of it and thought 'I've made a huge mistake'
but I have had no issues with the size of it at all. I think using a phone with a smaller screen now would seem like a downgrade.
The rumors for the Max 3 suggests it will be the same size, but nearly all 7" screen,
no bezels and only a very thin strip for camera, sensors and earpiece.
If that's the case I might sell this one and upgrade.
@xev:
The rumors for the Max 3 suggests it will be the same size, but nearly all 7" screen,
no bezels and only a very thin strip for camera, sensors and earpiece.If that's the case I might sell this one and upgrade.
Lol as much as I love my A1 you are really are tempting me :).
hah, I'm tempting myself.
The best thing about these phones, they do everything a nearly $1000 phone can do for a lot less,
and it's easier to justify upgrading sooner. For 1k I wouldn't even think about upgrading for 2-3 years.
And you get to explain to other people who Xiaomi is…
Wouldn't fixing it be an option? Home and Contents insurance claim?