Well friends, the lease on my Note 10+ is up next month with Sprint/T-Mobile, and I wanna buy my next phone outright rather than do this lease shit. I really like the Note, so I’m eyeing the Note 20, but there’s word BlackBerry will have a new phone this year and I’d love a physical keyboard.
My current plan is to buy out the Note 10 for the time being and wait to see what else comes out this year, but if y’all have any suggestions as to an amazing phone I might not have considered, I’d love to hear it. Thank you.
If you like the Note form factor/stylus, I don’t see why you’d upgrade for at least another year, if not longer. From what I read when I was looking at phone reviews around the time of the Pixel 5 launch, the 10+ is still very good, to the extent that people were not recommending getting the 20.
Ohhh good to know. Thank you! Yeah I’m happy with it mostly (next phone I get HAS to have a separate fingerprint reader because god damn), so I’m not in a RUSH per se, except you know, new toy.
Fingerprint reader on my Pixel 3 has been fabulous.
Yeah I miss the fingerprint reader on my Essential. In the middle of the back of the thing, rarely missed a reading. The on-screen fingerprint reader on my Note is just shit.
To follow up on this, a few days after I posted this I put my water damaged phone on charge, it duly reached 100% and the following morning it… well, it was back to normal. The screen is fine (it flickered once a few days later, but that’s it). Perhaps the heat generated from charging it was sufficient to evaporate any remaining condensation inside the case? Who knows, but for now I’m back using the phone as if nothing had happened. That suits my wallet just fine.
My wife’s Pixel 3a might have just died. Hmmm, looking at the Project Fi store right now, here’s what’s available:
Samsung Note 20 5G: $600 ($400 off)
Samsung Galaxy S20 5G: $400 ($600 off)
Samsung A71 5G: $300 ($300 off)
Pixel 5G: $700 (currently no sale)
Pixel 4a (5G): $500 (currently no sale)
Pixel 4a: $350 (currently no sale)
Moto G Power (last year’s 2020 model): $50 ($200 off)
Moto G Stylus (last year’s 2020 model): $100 ($200 off)
I haven’t paid attention to Samsung phones in a long time. Are these good ones? The Galaxy S20 5G is only $50 more than the Pixel 4a, that seems like a great deal?
Is the A71 5G a good phone?
It’s fine, but if you can get an S20 for only $100 more there’s no reason to look at it.
Yeah, I’m looking at online reviews now, and though the 4a reviews well, it’s reviewed as a “midrange phone”, whereas the S20 is reviewed as a full priced expensive phone. The two are never compared. For $50 more than the 4a, the S20 sounds like a great deal.
Especially if you’re not saddled with the Exynos processors like we are in Europe.
Yeah, I read that. That’s what convinced me to get it, actually. Because they’re comparing buying the S20 for $800 now, vs buying an S21 with improved specs for $900 a week or two later. They DON’T compare buying it now for $400. :)
Phone ordered. S20 it is. Maybe I should keep this one, and give my wife my Pixel 3? Probably not. I do love my Pixel 3.
Ah I missed the $400 sale price, yeah thats a good deal.
I won’t replace my Pixel 3 till I see what the Pixel 5 offers in the fall. :)
Yeah, I have not had really any temptation to move on from my Pixel 3. It’s a great phone with a wonderful camera.
By the way, it required a factory reset, but my wife’s Pixel 3A is working again. Based on circumstantial evidence alone that she’s on Facebook all the time, I’m going to blame the facebook app for this incident.
I contacted Google Support to see if I can do a trade-in, they said I couldn’t, but I could cancel the order first, then do the trade-in before buying it again. So I did that. Might as well get another $88 out of this.
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Wait wot? It was out only in mid 2019 right? 1.5 year? That doesn’t sound right. Is there Pixel 3a build quality issue?
Not sure. I don’t think so? It seems to run fine now after the factory reset.
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It is kinda concerning that you need a factory reset to sort it out. Generally apps don’t crap out and require a factory reset to fix.
I’ve never owned a google phone (Pixel/Nexus) that was fully functional 2 years after purchasing it.
