Budget 10-15K Buying a phone during festive sale

kartikoli

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As we all know both Amazon and Flipkart have started there sales so was thinking to retire my almost 3yrs old Redmi Note 7 Pro which is showing signs of slowness, I would like to try some other brands other than Mi this time but not restricting it. The phone will be used for Whataspp, email notifications, some random videos for pass-time, hardly make calls so battery is not my concern, would like a good screen with less clutters. Already have Samsung F51 so thats not an option.
Budget around 15k+/-

P.S. Indisplay fingerprint scanner is a deal breaker for me
 
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It is both hardware and software. Chinese brands like Redmi, Mi, Realme will give you good hardware but the OS, software optimisation to fully utilise the hardware is missing. If you analyse it, you will see most of the budget phones upto 20k will have this issue.

Most of the culprit are those custom skins like MemeUI, ColorOS etc. There is a reason Google with Pixel can get the max performance even from a mediocre hardware. These custom skin developers never pay too much attention to sub-20k devices. Hence you will hear lot of complaints about phone performance degrading rather than improving with updates on these devices. Nothing wrong with Android per se.

Samsung is an exception and you would get decent performance with high spec'ed phone like SD SoC, ufs 2 and above, 6 gb ram. For budget spec'ed phone, I really cannot comment but reviews are not positive.

I have Nokia 7+ and it still buttery smooth for 3.8 gb ram on stock Android. I can never imagine this performance on my Poco X3 even with 6 gb ram.
 
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Kaleen Bhaiya said:
It's a different story of you are thinking about custom roms on this device.
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custom roms is last resort to debloat and is pain for sure.

I'm kind of leaning towards g40 fusion. I hope i wont regret later.
6gb is now 15k on flipkart. We wil get android 12 update -- Im sure we will have Lineage/etc available in 2-3 years for this.
the only complain i'm seeing online is the size and weight. Given i wont carry this phone outside ... i think i should go with it.

where as for Samsung m21 - lots of negative reviews about performance, lag and overheating.
M51 i liked, but its around 20k - my ideal budget was 10-12k, i seriously dont want to put more even 1 rupees more than 15K -- its already too much for for my use-case.
 
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rootyme said:
Can they still pull it off after custom ROM is flashed?
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Most probably.
As custom ROMS are compiled from the sources which are made public by the phone company itself, here being Xiomi, this snooping behavior would be embedded at system/kernel level, and company will make sure that it would be very difficult to remove or turn off these features
 
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I forgot to mention in display fingerprint scanner is a deal breaker for me, my brother had in his Realme X and we totally disliked it will check Redmi note 10pro and Samsung
 
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Just checked Samsung M21 review and it was pretty slow in the video so right now RN 10 pro is the leader. What about Moto phones? I saw they launched few good phones but didn't get time to check in detail
 
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Kaleen Bhaiya said:
The edge series from Moto starts from 30k and for edge pro, it goes beyond. You can look for G40/60 but it is huge and bulky. I hope members using those phone could chip in with experience.
@eraviii
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I bought the edge fusion for 21.5k off FK - should reach me Monday... I just hope there are no bugs/issues/defects... someone posted some wifi disconnection issue somewhere.
 
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RN7 Pro and slow? Not sure what you're doing with it. I have RN5 Pro since 2018 and it's still fine (I'm using Custom ROM though), although battery has degraded to some degree but still usable for a day.
 
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enthusiast29 said:
RN7 Pro and slow? Not sure what you're doing with it. I have RN5 Pro since 2018 and it's still fine (I'm using Custom ROM though), although battery has degraded to some degree but still usable for a day.
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Problem is I haven't done anything with it hahah. Installing custom rom is a pain specially how much time it takes to unlock bootloader and then select a ROM but the main issue is lack of time so have to look for alternates.

I bought Lian Li Lancool 215 and its been 2 months I haven't got the time to change cabinet so you can understand time crunch.
eraviii said:
Yes G40/ 60 / Samsung F62 all are heavy you will feel like holding a brick, personal experience anything less than 180 gms is good, this is one of the reason i considered M52 5g.
Will get delivery by Monday. Will update the thread as it is.
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Correct I hate using those bricks even my brother Samsung F51 is heavy compared to RN 7 Pro.
 
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vishalrao said:
I bought the edge fusion for 21.5k off FK - should reach me Monday... I just hope there are no bugs/issues/defects... someone posted some wifi disconnection issue somewhere.
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GeekyRanjit has demonstrated that on 1Gbps, edge was having slower speeds versus RealmeGT. That was the only con in his evaluation. I wanted to tag you but couldn't find a relevant post.
Maybe he had a defective piece. Do go for a thorough check for wifi and see if it's a deal breaker. Other than that, it checked all the boxes.

Incase interested.
 
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kartikoli said:
Problem is I haven't done anything with it hahah. Installing custom rom is a pain specially how much time it takes to unlock bootloader and then select a ROM but the main issue is lack of time so have to look for alternates.

I bought Lian Li Lancool 215 and its been 2 months I haven't got the time to change cabinet so you can understand time crunch.
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Completely understandable, given the complicated and time consuming nature of switching ROMs I'd say it needs a day at least to get things in order especially if the device is your daily driver but TBH same goes for switching to a new device IMO.
When I bought the phone I had pre-planned not to use MIUI so I didn't doo much on it for the first "required" no. of days to unlock bootloader so after the unlock the switch was easy. I used the wait period to judge what ROM to switch to.
 
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enthusiast29 said:
Completely understandable, given the complicated and time consuming nature of switching ROMs I'd say it needs a day at least to get things in order especially if the device is your daily driver but TBH same goes for switching to a new device IMO.
When I bought the phone I had pre-planned not to use MIUI so I didn't doo much on it for the first "required" no. of days to unlock bootloader so after the unlock the switch was easy. I used the wait period to judge what ROM to switch to.
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Thats what I've planned this time, get a new device and install custom rom before switching to the device completely
 
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