Cell Phones Dedicated Discussion (Market Prices/ Troubleshooting/ Advice/ Recommendations)

[crossfirex]

I would request members (with habit of taking care of there phones) to tell life expectancy of Various Brands like iPhone, Samsung, Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi etc if they are not abused with physical factors I mean to in terms of self developed hardware faults without any noticeable physical abuse

[wolfkhan]

Thats wat i said a few posts back about android phones but everyone started commenting how trouble free and durable android phones are in durability i have never seen a better product then Apple..!!

[crossfirex]

No bro u can't say this thing directly because there is something price to performance ratio
If u buy xiaomi in 16k and it works for 1 year
And u buy iPhone for 75k and it works for 5years than both are equal

[asharab.butt]

Lol my huawei honor 3c lasted 4 years. I just recently threw it away because at first it developed a bootloop problem. I got new software installed and then after 3 months it gave problems where the contacts stopped wirking so i could not open the dialer and also the gallery stopped working. But considering i use every thing with above average car still a 20k phone lasting 4 years is pretty impressive.

[wolfkhan]

No bro u can't say this thing directly because there is something price to performance ratio
If u buy xiaomi in 16k and it works for 1 year
And u buy iPhone for 75k and it works for 5years than both are equal

Buy a iphone 5 worth 10k n it vl work like a charm better then 16k xiaomi.. i know ppl who r still on iphone 4 n 4s so compare that with android

[zia1288]

different people have different experiences. We can't generalize it.

[StrikerX]

Interesting comparisons and anecdotal performance metrics being made

[tintin1]

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[crossfirex]

What u people think about buying Honor 7x from USA in $200? Is it worth investing in HONOR?
I mean to say that there is a difference of quality assurance among different brands there may be fault in few sets from a particular brand but there are companies (not like to mention names) that have record of early lapses in their mobile phones despite of care
And u can come to know this thing once u write a particular problem that occurred to your set on GOOGLE that how common is it

[asharab.butt]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=322485948244330&id=198828470610079&__tn__=%2As%2As-R

What do you guys think, is this worth it at rs1000?

[512a]

Well I am back here on forums after a long time and after reading the above posts about iphone and other android brands specially people comparing a xiaomi with an iPhone, I want to share my experience. First of all listen guys an iPhone is an iPhone, you can't compare a most expensive flagship of its time with today's mid Rangers, yeah today's midrange mobile phones will surely beat old Flagships on certain tests but remember a flagship is a flagship. ( note : I'm not in favor of old Flagships or iPhones, just giving my opinion). Now coming back to the point, I am currently using almost all the phones in discussion right now, from iPhone 6 to iPhone 5, huawei mate 10 lite to y62, windows phone to s7 edge from MI Max 2 to redmi 4a. All these sets are currently under use of my very close family members. I use these sets on daily basis and this is my personal conclusion. I am personally using MI Max 2 using lineage os and believe me or not iphone 6 can't even come close to it on terms of camera performance, battery life and above all media consumption experience. Yes iphone has its premium feel but note that MI max is also not behind. Specially comparing the price when bought both phones, I had two choices, either to get an old iPhone 6 32gb or if I was lucky I could get a 64gb variant, nothing more. Compared to that what I got with MI Max 2 is much better. 64gb +4 GB RAM, fast charging, 5k mah battery along with best camera experience in this range. (Note: I'm using Google camera port and it enabled hdr+ on both back and front cameras as well as portrait mode on both cameras which work flawless, it also enabled eis for back camera + the stock MI camera provides full manual control which one can never get on an iPhone ). Besides that an average sot of minimum 10 hours and average charging time from 20-100% is 2 hours max. What else do you want in this price? Below are a few clicks with this device. I am not uploading any portraits coz I don't want to upload someone's pic without their permission.

[asharab.butt]

Exactly if someone wants to compare iPhone 5 to a phone compare it to a flagship from the same year. It is not right to expect the quality and premium feel with a mid range phone

[512a]

And the! Most funny part is that when I got portrait mode on my phone, my elder brother started searching whole app store to get the portrait mode in order to prove the superiority of an iPhone and at the end I said to him that " bhai iPhone Na Liya hota to aaj yeh din Na dekhna Parta". Peace

[tintin1]

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[asharab.butt]

I asked because currently just have a rubber case on and a glass protector. Will this actually prevent damage if the phone is dropped though?

[crossfirex]

Solution:- Finally got my Redmi Note 4x repaired for the same problem of continuous connection and disconnection and actually it's protection diode was faulty AND THE LESSON AS PER THE REPAIR GUY WHO IS A WELL LITERATE ONE IS THAT TRY TO AVOID POWER BANK. MINE GOT FAULTY DUE LEAVING MY PHONE CONNECTED TO XIAOMI 20000 mAh power bank for whole night. But I would say it's poor protection control by Xiaomi in both Mobiles by using poor quality items. I was almost a brand ambassador of Xiaomi in my country and started using Xiaomi when it was not even in dreams of people of Pakistan but my two consecutive sets that are Redmi Note 2 and Redmi Note 4x got self developed hardware problem within a year despite of my too much caring personality. The above problem of Protection Diode going faulty is still attributed to poor hardware use else if it occurred due to once or twice overnight charging than most of the mobile phones have self protection against continuous charging. And I am sure all those people who got it solved from service center don't even know whether they have REPLACED the diode or just removed this safety device as mobile still works without this diode I personally saw it. But this will severely affect safety of mobile and personnel
Now I will post this thing on all forums whether it affects Xiaomi reputation or whatever. I used to love this brand but now I will stop people from purchasing it

[nasirjavaid]

Good to know your problem is solved, my Huawei mediapad 7 tab also has developed this problem of connect/disconnect when battery is too low and its connected to charger. Looks like its protection diode is also going weak.
For problems you faced in phones, I can say bad luck as I even used Qmobile A8 for 4 years and without single fault ... at the end my son took it under shower and things went wrong then.
Now using Redmi 4A since a year and going fine till now.

[crossfirex]

A8 was the most famous set by Qmobile and only because of it Qmobile got market in Pakistan which afterwards they exploited badly

[usman_arooq2]

1. I was talking about fingerprint unlock in those phones which is faster than touch id. FACE ID in its first iteration, with all those fancy dots and scanner is in two words, lame to use (aligning phone with face and waiting minimal of 1.5 sec) and not accurate. it can have a trillion point projection but if it isn't more convenient, faster or accurate, its trash.

2. With 3rd party apps and limited access and even more limited file format support. Android can mount storage if it were its internal and can be set to do it automatically with conditioning (mount storage when connected to xx wifi)

3. Chromecast requires you to purchase a dongle and on iphone, you'd be able to stream only the videos and audio which could be opened in that specific 3rd party app (which usually has a safari based browser + a media browser / pretending to be filemanager with limited file format support) e.g. you can't play real racing 3 on your tv without lightning av adopter, most TVs, projectors and Windows PCs and laptops come with Miracast, and support DLNA (which is available on iphone but through 3rd party apps, again, limited file format support and not so good connectivity with all devices) where as on android, you can browse dlna libraries of all devices present on a network, and stream to any of the dlna players (whether tvs, stereos, windows media player on pc, media player on media center, kodi, steam machine etc).
4. You wrote that just to have something against my point right? Or can safari open specific links that other browsers can't?

[crossfirex]

Just got little experience of iPhone x of my colleague really got disappointed
The worst thing I noticed was apple has again gone to 3GS design of using chrome on the sides which automatically gets scratches