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Best Chinese phone to buy on a budget? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by VeganicTankie@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I decided to support AES with my penny, so I want to buy a phone that has 3+ years of support and is good at privacy. I was a Galaxy user with a Lineageos rom before, but I think even stock roms can be debloated.

Lemmygrad (and hex) must be the only place with pro-China folks who are also enthusiastic about privacy, so I'm asking here

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[–] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure my Xiaomi Redmi 4 (best phone I ever had btw) that I bought in 2016 still gets software updates, at least it did a couple years ago. Six years of software updates is pretty decent. If Xiaomi stops with the updates, there's always custom ROMs like MIUI.eu, LineageOS, ROMs on xda-developers or rolling your own.

Google Pixels are expensive, aren't they? Personally, I wouldn't spend more than 150-175€ on a phone and I expect them to last at least 2-3 years. I've been buying/using Xiaomis since 2016, never had a reason to switch to anything else. I don't know how people can drop 500-600€ on a phone, you can practically buy a car for that much.