Hi tech cohost, anybody have any particular opinions on smartphones? galaxy s21 fucking sucks in countless ways and I want something that doesn't.
particularly I want to have a headphone jack again because as far as I can tell, all USB-c to aux adapters love their random disconnects and phantom input changing my volume and songs on me lmao
I am actually fairly (ha) interested in fairphone and I do have someone who could receive and forward one to me, but they say they can't provide support to american users which is kind of a big dealbreaker when I'm paying like $500 for a phone. alas
See if you can’t get any of the recent Sony Xperia phones, plenty of neat stuff like a headphone jack, micro SD card slot, fingerprint scanner that isn’t under the display, the works! I would lean more towards the Xperia 5 series, not quite as silly innterms if specs but still very nice phones, I have a Xperia 5 mk iii myself. Only real downside is that they don’t tend to provide security updates after like 2 years, so that’s something to consider.
Another one i would be interested in are the Asus phones, mainly the Zenfone for something smaller while still being great value and having the usual features that are sorely missed nowadays
I did my digging on the Xperia lines and I'm like kind of obsessed now thank you
Low to mid budget android phones usually still have headphone jacks, and everything else most people need. Motorola's have been my go to for years, but other manufacturers make cheap android phones too.
