High Midrange or old Top Range. £450 - £850 ish.
I went from a LG G3 to OnePlus 3T to a Xiaomi K30 Ultra (variant of a Poco F2 Pro, Chinese ROM). My partner went from and old iPhone to the same. Loved the phone and the pop up camera, but the Chinese ROM, and in many aspects, Xiaomi bloatware drove us batty. Awful user experience. Is their Global ROM also rubbish?
Now it's time for a new phone, I liked Xiaomi bang for buck but I'm wary of its software experience on their global devices (does Google assistant work out the box? Does clicking on a link in a browser route you to their horrible GetApps store? Does G maps locations work? Do they lock out custom launchers? Do notifications and syncing get pushed correctly or does the battery Optimizer aggressively shut all things down in the background?)
Our priority list as follows:
- AMOLED 6.5 - 6.7 inch
- Great camera, ideally with a telephoto
- Waterproof
- Not too plasticy a build
- A smooth android experience with minimal bloatware
- Not flagship prices but mid tier, to mid upper tier.
- She wants a pretty colour like purple
So my question is, what phones should be on my radar?
Current list:
Pixel 7 / pro (8 I think is too pricey, but that phone is my personal benchmark)
OPPO Reno 10+ (also a bit steep but she wants the purple)
OnePlus 12 (how's the camera? I loved my 3T but have heard they aren't as good as they used to be)
S22+ or S22 Ultra refurbed (cons a year old but has purple an IP68 is it a better pick than the OPPO?)
Xiaomi 12T or similar, suggestions?
Realme GT5 pro looks sick, but I have Chinese ROM ptsd
Thanks for advice. My phone knowledge is a bit rusty and their must be a bunch out there that I would never think to look at.
I'm not in favour of pre-emptive defederating. It feels like censorship doing so and that bothers me.
Their note to their users specifically says to keep their anti establishment opinions and trolling to their own communities and don't spread it further for fear of defederation. It hardly sounds threatening to us.
Defederating can happen at any point, and I think would be better kept as a reactive response and last resort rather than proactive.
The more our large instances start fracturing and closing off from one another the less useful Lemmy will become. You're hardly blocking out an idealogy, if hexbear users wanted in they could just sign up and that would make it harder to find them. At least having them federated makes it easy to filter out @hexbear if we wanted.
Practicing tolerance goes both ways. Calling communities 'them' vs 'us' and judging a group based on the noise of the few doesn't seem like the right approach. If hexbear became a problem and moderators complained of hate speech and conflict then absolutely we use the tools we have to keep things functioning, but filtering out groups because we don't like 'their' belief systems will make us judgemental and biased as a result. This is a platform to promote discussion not an echo chamber to gather like minded opinions and bounce them off each other in perpetuity.