Best brand for phones under 15000 and good service quality?

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Motorola has been absolutely horrible for us. From green line to charging port issues to service center refusing any warranty.

I’m looking for a phone brand who sells solid build quality phones under 15k and have a good after sales service. Especially in Kolkata. Don’t need a lot of power. It’s for my father.

Looking for phones with IPS LCD screens, to avoid future green line issues. And hopefully less or no ads on the phone, bonus points for being able to uninstall or disable bloatware like Glance etc.

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Do give a thought about Samsung mobiles.

I have a staff who has been using M series phone for over 2 years with AMOLED.

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I will stand with Redmi and Oppo. No line issues or anything on those lines.

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Try iqoo vivo service is good

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@N-TEch.11 @Barneystinson

What about USB ports? It’s a constant problem on Motorola.

And also after sales service and repairs?

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I have never owned any moto or samsungs so cannot comment.

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I meant for brands you like.

And adware and glance? Can they be removed/disabled on them?

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Yeah friend of mine got green line issue on iqoo 7 out of warranty they changed it for free and recently changed display for iqoo Neo 9 se within 1 hour they changed the display and even I got 3k offer for the display some offers where going on that month

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Currently on oppo so no ads at all. Previously owned a redmi- my family also have redmi but no ads at all at least for these phone which were bought 2 yrs ago.

No ads on vivo as well.

You can also go with samsung affordable mid 15k series as I think samsungs got no ads but samsungs got slowness issues after a year or so and its battery life keeps degrading after a year (exp. with my bro who always prefers samsung irrespective of his exp.- brand loyalist)

Whereas these chinese ones lasts very long- my redmi battery lasted 5 years before dying and I tortured it with all sorts of customs roms and rooting. But yeah I never game on phones so maybe thats the reason.

For other hardware issues I think if you are light and careful in handling on phones then I dont think there should be any usb or any physical button issues unless the phone is handled roughly or dropped etc.

You are buying for your father so I guess he will be pretty light on phone handling.

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Avoid Redmi . The phone has a side power button and every time by mistake I press the power button while on a call and the phone restarts . Look for a phone which has the power button at a different location .

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that is hardly problem, come on.

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But you can change that no? There should be a way to change what power button does in settings.

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It is a huge problem . Another problem was that while talking the phone used to go into airplane mode .

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any idea about xiaomi?

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Though I have been an erstwhile techie , I do not have the patience to hunt down what is what . A kid can do better with a phone than I can .

Nokia used to design phones with common sense . They used to have the keypad arranged for ergonomics and a great deal of engineering , thought process used to happen .

Chinese phones seem to focus on cost , features at the cost of user interface , ergonomics .

Same POS as Redmi

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Thats a software issue not hardware and it the phones arent shipped with that issue. I have 4 xiaomi redmis currently in my family and all working without issues.

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Its all a software mess. You have do a factory reset, software upgrade or a downgrade and if the issue persists, service center is the way.

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Ok. May be . That is why I said avoid is better . I have a LG V20 . The power off switch is on the back of the phone . Very thoughtful and one cannot accidentally switch it off .

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si mi is good too? im kinda leaning towards it as long as i can deal with bloat and glance

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I have a Samsung m35 as a backup phone and it works surprisingly well. Display is great, dual stereo speakers sound really good. Camera is decent for the price. The phone does get warm when watching FHD videos for some time. Calls and 5G signal is great. Battery back on 5G gives 1 day (24 hrs) with SOT of 5 to 6 hrs or more probably (not sure about SOT).