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In your opinion, what is the best brand of cell phones in terms of quality and price today? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Generally, for me it would be Xiaomi and Samsung. Both have decent features at a decent price. I mean, they can run some games without too many problems or open TikTok.

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[–] 25 points 9 months ago (6 children)

For the past decade plus I've just been buying the cheapest unlocked phone available. Last two have been Motorolas. They run all the games and do everything you want from a phone. Bonus, they let me delete x and Meta 's bloatware.

I'll never buy a Samsung precisely because you need to root them to uninstall meta's bullshit.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I've had two samsungs and I've never had a problem removing meta shit.

    Might be because I'm UK, I think unremovable bloatware was outlawed a few years ago

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I've just switched to a Motorola from a Xiaomi, and I'm in the UK. The Xiaomi wouldn't let me uninstall quite a few apps. The Motorola is giving me the option at least

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'm probably wrong then.

    I just have a very vague memory from years ago that uk companies were told to stop preinstalling their own bloatware on phones.

    It particularly affected companies like O2 and Orange whose phones would come preloaded with all sorts of branded shit.

    I do know that all of a sudden the practice stopped, maybe it was voluntary?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Does yours not have Glance? I have a Moto G and there's this app I can't uninstall that puts "news stories" that are actually advertisements on my lock screen. I can disable it but if my phone reboots it re-enables itself. It's the sole reason that this in my last Motorola phone.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I had something similar when I first set up the phone, but I disabled it along with most of the other junk. Apart from immediately after an update, I haven't seen it again. Even then it was easy to disable.

    I had an automatically installed games folder after the update too, and that was a bit trickier to remove, but it was just a case of finding it in the settings. I'm stuck with Facebook because of a music festival I'm involved with, but long pressing it and dragging it to the top of the homescreen gives me the option uninstall it. I don't know if it's an actual uninstall or just disabling it, but it looks legit

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