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[–] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My $200 Motorola has one, I don't see the issue here. If headphone jacks are important to you, find a phone that has one. I've never had a smartphone without a jack.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Well, if you want something with good cameras and/or a future-proofed CPU for the next 10+ years, you can't buy a phone with "legacy" features. That's why I was holding onto my Redmi 4X until recently. Now I have a Redmi K90 without a headphone connector, SDcard slot or an unlockable bootloader - because capitalism. At least it could run a Browser decently - unlike the older one.

    My plan is to use the new phone for the next 10 - 12 years (or more if I can still use a web browser decently). Could a ~150€ Redmi shitbox do this? - From my experience: if you like waiting 10 mins for a simple website to load.

    At least throwing money at the problem mitigates it somewhat.

    This was my annoyed rant. Enjoy.

    Also: The new phone doesn't even support analog audio output (for some stupid reason) and I have to buy a 10€ DAC to have a decent wired audio. Spending money makes you spend more money. Great.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    I am running CrDroid on a €150 Redmi shitbox and I don't have any trouble opening websites. I don't even look at processing power when picking a phone, all I need is headphone jack, fingerprint unlock, e-sim: whoop, filtered 1000 phones down to 2.

    But using a phone for 10 years? You've used yours since 2016? Or do you mean that no phone ever lasted for 10 years, but this next one surely will?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

    on a €150 Redmi shitbox and I don’t have any trouble opening websites. I don’t even look at processing power when picking a phone, all I need is headphone jack, fingerprint unlock, e-sim: whoop, filtered

    Well, the old Redmi (from early 2017 - almost 10 years - if it had a slightly better CPU, it would have been fine - static websites run tolerable, but I do need web-apps relatively often) still fully works (after replacing the battery) - so the (edit: new) phone will probably last at least 10 years, but will it do things I need decently fast - fuck knows, it will probably be way better than the lowest performance device I could find.

    I used the Redmi since around 2022, but it was used by my dad since 2017. So it could be relatively fine this time.

    Also the phone:

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