Does your banking apps and such work even with root and/or custom OS?
I am about to find out once the phone is delivered here, after all if it doesnât work I could always return it to the seller for the seller is a legitimate one.
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Too modern
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Rotary phones, never used them but my grandma and grandpa did during their time when they were much younger.
Ha, nice resource. Seems I picked well (from this POV) when I went for the OP 9 in 2023 when I thought my Lenovo P2 was finally becoming unusable, but it turned out this sucker was still a long way from giving up and is still my primary phone today, 6.5 years after buying it second-hand, already 1y used by the other guy. 
But itâs true the Lenovoâs been getting very annoying with how slow some apps start - or even how webpages load - on most days, and I donât think Iâll be letting it see the end of the year in its current role. Last chance I may give it is to upgrade from the Android 8.1(!) based LineageOS to the Android 11 based one, see if all the performance troubles Iâve been having are just from a âdirtyâ and outdated OS install.
I will note though the OP 9 has an absolutely infuriating design flaw where the body curvature along the edges of the screen makes it so your fingertips are registered by the touchscreen even while youâre simply holding the phone with your âsupport handâ, and this prevents your single taps or swipes with the other hand from working. I had to install a special app to disable touch detection along the edges to get rid of this issue because it was absolutely driving me up the wall.
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Thanks for that, yeah apparently there are some users who has owned OP phones that are facing that issue with the edges and apparently a bit tough to find the right screen protection for it, for I am planning to get it one with a matte finish and as well as some protection case for it.
The red color looks so nice but unfortunately there isnât any color of it available therefore I just went with my favorite color which is blue. I am praying for my SIM to work on it and as well as some apps that I often use for my daily life, if not, well I have to settle with the flashing method that I used to do with my old Samsung phones.
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hmm I never had that issue on my OP 8T though. Maybe they made it worse afterwardsâŠthat is actually what I remember hearing though that they went downhill after the 8T. With this latest 13 series being quite good and maybe a come back.
I think I am overall going to be fine with OnePlus, for they have been a reputable brand and shouldnât have doubts with them for now though. I cannot wait for it to arrive and yes my Poco X7 Pro 5G is pretty much gonna be sold, solid phone as well but man the UI on that and the customizability for that phone is just limited and boring.
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I am using a Samsung S22. After using it for nearly 2 & 1/2 years, I still donât know how I feel about it. My wifeâs does this thing were the touchscreen is off by about 1cm when it is charging.
Before that phone, I carried a LG Stylo 4, and they didnât screw up Android to the same level that Samsung does, the camera was amazing, and the battery was very good even after a couple years of use. I took thousands of photos with it, because we were going to Disneyland and Universal regularly at the time. I am always bummed that LG got out of the phone business.
I think the best value picks right now are OnePlus, Motorola, and the Google Pixel. The Pixel seems like the most feature packed. I also hear very good things about the Nothing phones.
The one I want to see get to a slightly better value point is Fairphone. They are basically trying to do with a phone what Framework is doing with laptop PCs.
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Not to mention Pixelâs access to Graphene OS and itâs really unfortunate that not even OnePlus can have that one for I was really willing to make my phone much more private and secured, then again I could always reduce the invasiveness of OnePlus by doing the usual stuff that I did back then when flashing phones. Iâve bought the OP13 for the specs, and tbh I wouldâve had bought a Pixel if the specs are top tier like this one and then itâs pretty much a done deal for me. Overall though, I still got a great phone albeit weird since it uses a Chinese OS.
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I still have a hard time directly comparing them. The Pixel 9a is $500, where the OP13 is $900. That is a pretty big price difference, and I am offended at spending that much. It isnât that long ago that $350 was the price of flagship Android phone, and LG dipping out was when Samsung really started jacking up the prices.
The other sneaky upside of the Pixel is that they are offering 7 years of software support, where the One Plus is at 5. That means you can defer the next upgrade if you want.
Agreed, phone prices really went up the roof for no reasonâŠ
At least the pixels have a loooooong software/security support nowadays but cant say the same for other brandsâŠ
Luckily pixel phones rapidly drop in price in like 6 months or so after they come out.
yeahh i really hate their version of androidâŠlooks ugly af to me. I love the clean android look you get on Pixels, Asus and Sony. Oneplus is also nice but not as clean though.
So far all my phones have been from different brands, not so much brand loyalty here lol. Except LG, which I had twice with the G2 and the G7 (which i still use for bed reading, although the battery capacity has degraded a ton so its like 50% as good now or something).
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if you dont mind not having e-sim you could get the chinese version of it for around 400-500 bucks rn. Afaik you can even flash the global rom and stuff. But even the chinese rom is good and can use google play. Currently have the Vivo X200 Pro Chinese version and people said its even better than the global one since the update is more consistent and stable. But Vivo have short software support so if thats what you go for then you should stick with the current west oriented brands.
At some point I believe they are just racing to see where is the maximum limit they could push the customers to buy their stuff before the customers say nah thats too much.
Also yea pixel price drops fast but still releasing such a midrange phone (except the camera, which rn prolly already beaten by chinese phones anyway) for flagship price is diabolical from google. They are trying so hard to be apple. The thing is apple has been building those ecosystem and make it reliable over years (at least the past few years). What google doing is what DCEU trying to do catching up to MCU. They had the Nexus lineup which was hugely successful then they axed that to make pixel lineup
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Oh right I apologize for Iâve forgot to mention this. The OnePlus 13 phone version that Iâve bought was the Chinese one, making much more a better deal than the usual Global release, for those are just too fucking expensive for me. I have to like do a lot of tinkering to it in order for me to make it useful and I glad I did for I cannot seem to find a way to disable the AppMarket from the ColorOS version of this one, so I had to convert this one to OxygenOS and it is working now.
And man, theyâre not wrong when they have said that the bootloader of this one can be unlocked, so Iâve pretty much rooted this phone as well and installed some essentials in order for the rooted phone not to be detected by banking apps.
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yeah, oneplus can unlock bootloader pretty easily. vivo cant lol. but vivo origin os (china) is better than the funtouch os (global). Bar the occasional chinese stuff like ai but i dont use them
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I donât use AI stuff lately as well, I tend to either disable those or just uninstall them if possible.
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Eh, from blind tests the pixels still reign as king at least from mkbhd.
I dunno though, the chinese phones may have great hardware on paper but often times optimization and software aspects matter much more to have a better experience in the endâŠ
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and I can attest to that for their way of thinking of top specs while giving those units with a lot of unnecessary bloats and even miner apps, is just ass backwards thinking in my opinion. Then again that is China and probably a compromise to make such flagship level phones from them much cheaper than their Global counterparts.
All phones are made in asia anyway so there shouldnt really be much of a difference on production costs tbhâŠ
its likely just more of a âbrand taxâ, pay more the more famous they are. Even OnePlus ended up that wayâŠremember their true âflagship killerâ in their OnePlus One?
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Oh right, how couldâve had I missed that crucial word, taxes.
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