18
Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a second hand phone (Budget around $400aud, ~ 1kMYR or ~$260usd)
My dream phone has:
- Dual Sim (preferably at least one esim)
- USB C with OTG (preferably at least usb3)
- 2 usbC ports would be extra nice to have (allow me to dream)
- 3.5mm headphone jack (preferably 24-bit/192kHz)
- microSDXC slot (preferably dedicated)
- if not dedicated then one where sticking the Sim chip to the SD card hack works
- decent custom rom and with it android 15 support!!
- at least 8GB RAM
- not a potato for a camera
- battery life to last bored geeks day
- at least a work day of music and some comics and some brain rot on the socials and when I get home I got 20% left
Nice to have would be:
- ok Selfie camera
- fully charged in a hour
- 5G
- wifi 6
- a decent GPS chip
Phones I'm currently kinda looking at:
- Sony Xperia 1 IV
- insufficient custom Rom support, 2 guys are working on a linage port
- Sony Xperia 1 iii / current favourite
- ok custom rom support, bit old, unsure about camera quality
- Poco x5 pro (5G)
- Samsung A72
I'm a big fan of OnePlus, had the 1 and 7 but hate the trend towards no headphone jack and no SDcard support and then not even a second USB port
I used LinageOS a while back and quite liked it ... On my last phone I used YAAP and loved it
Cheers for reading ... PLS drop your 2 cents below
Xperia 1 for sure imho, Lineage is amazing (and the phone too, good form factor, very decent cameras).
But can't really tell you if IV or the safer choice III.
For a further 2 cents I would consider Xperia 1 V or even 5 V (coz LineageOS), tho I'm not sure if you can get that deal on the second hand market.
(And as a random though, if you want a nice stylus the Note10 has Lineage support, but you sacrifice the 3.5mm hole & it's 2019.)
Cheers, I'm dreaming about the 1V but it's currently way out of budget.
Need to do some reading on the 5 V because they are cheap where I am
One thing to be concerned about with the 5V is it doesn't have all the 4g/5g bands in certain countries (United States, India). Not sure about Australia.
Otherwise as someone who was in your shoes awhile ago, 5V was my dream phone for the small screen and finally addressing the issues the 5 iii and iv had. Ended up going with the 5 iv which is great, but certainly lots of issues. Namely, both the 1 and 5 iii and iv have major overheating issues due to a bad chip.
Also on the Xperias the weird screen ratio takes some getting used to, think I still prefer the more popular ratio.
Yeah, the price diff between 1 & 5 is pretty much valid/balanced unfortunately :( (iirc).
But that doesn't mean 5 is bad. I personality use zoom a lot (& never the front camera) so that limits my phone choice a lot.