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What is a good non-Apple phone to get?
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I was with you at first when you mentioned OnePlus until you started recommending against Chinese phones in general for some reason
I have a OnePlus 11 5G and my signal is fine. Admittedly, I had to email my MVNO carrier directly to find out what APN to enter in order for data to work properly, but that is specific to the MVNO, not my phone.
It sounds like you've bad a bad experience. Carriers that require you to activate your phone are unnecessarily giving you extra hurtles, and this issue is generally limited to big carriers whose users don't know about MVNOs/don't know any better. Any respectable carrier will let you just insert your SIM card, maybe input an APN, and call it a day without having to activate anything.
My OnePlus 11 5G reception and Wi-Fi support are excellent, and I really don't recommend counting out all Chinese phones because you, personally, weren't able to get them working
Agreed, Google's hardware is subpar, but that is a Google-specific problem. Several users have found (1, 2, 3) that their OnePlus cameras are better than iPhone cameras.
yeah this is very true, although not universal. It's just worth at least researching ahead of time, or being prepared to try it out and return it if it doesn't work (which might involve significant shipping costs). Or just going with a US market device if that all seems like too much of a pain.
I bought a primarily chinese-market aimed device (low end and kinda old, so not directly comparable to a relatively new smartphone but still), and it does not have the correct LTE bands to get T-mobile or the VoLTE profiles for Verizon, so its definitely not an ideal experience though I have gotten some use out of it still. I haven't tried ATT but I don't think it will be better (and ofc MVNOs all piggyback off of the above)