The Cell Phone / Mobile Phone Thread

My Ticwatch E does have a pretty good battery. I wore it all day yesterday and then I fell asleep without taking it off. I only had time to put it on the charger for an hour before work, and it wasn't much over 50% before I had to leave. It still had a low but comfortable amount of charge left at the end of the day.

There’s a phone that lasts 50 days on one charge.

The Energizer thick boi? I like the idea, but it exposes the lie we've been told by battery manufacturers for years concerning how much better they're getting in terms of life.

Meanwhile, I got this recently:

https://www.techradar.com/uk/reviews/nokia-6-review

It's a decent phone though not as good as my Lumia 950 which Microsoft has deigned to remove support for in December. No wireless charging and a fixed battery make for a sad Tam H 70.

I haven't really seen an improvement in battery life tech, just manufacturers on different ends of the "thin phone/long battery life" scale.

My last phone, a flagship model, was relatively razor thin (I dropped it in the snow once and it sliced through like a knife), and it barely had a day of idle. My current phone, a mid-range, is twice its thickness and I can very comfortably make it through the day with moderate use.

Part of me is now arguing between, for subtracting distraction from my iPhone 6:

1.) An old Nokia, all I need for a phone

2.) The thicc bunny absolute unit.

I don't have T-Mobile (although Sprint would count, with the buyout), but the service is having problems right now. Their customer support Twitter account says it's a routing issue.

Ya girl upgraded to a Galaxy A20 a little while ago and oh my God I've never been this happy with a phone in my life. It runs like a dream!

I've been getting frustrated with how laggy my phone can get and I started trying to research what I should replace it with. But then I looked up when I bought this phone and I've only had it for 15 months. I don't want to start the process of getting a new phone until I've had it two years.

This is just what I get for buying a model that was released in 2017 and on clearance for $100 before my trade in.

Battery life is still great, I've just already got memory issues, and it bugged me to realize the Moto G5 doesn't have NFC.

At least I found GSM Arena's phone finder tool so that next spring I can pick something that's going to check all the boxes. Maybe the Xperia model I liked will be a good price by then.

I ran into this weird-ass software issue about a month and some change ago on my still pretty new Pixel 4 where the microphone system just refused to work outside of phone calls and the video camera. Made the thing considerably more of a pain to use right until the problem just disappeared as quickly and randomly as it had emerged.

I honest-to-God thought I was going crazy and needed to get an obscure hardware issue fixed, but it resolved itself so thankfully it never got to that point. Albeit, not for lack of trying — I tried to take it to a repair shop but they wouldn’t take it because they were only equipped for screen replacement services (because this is America and the only people that deserve to have any other problems with their hardware fixed are iPhone owners, of course).

Glad it didn’t completely ruin everything, because in all other respects, the Pixel 4 might be one of the best devices I’ve ever owned. Google gets a lot of the little things right that other manufacturers don’t bother with or mess up, and since I’m not crazy about Samsung but still like having a premium Android experience, they’re one of the better options.