I looked into my options really carefully when choosing my phone last year. Few things to note, when looking for an Android phone:
Make sure it’s either a pixel or a Snapdragon powered phone. This just means that if the manufacturer does some stupid stuff, there is a higher probability of your phone having a custom rom.
Stay away from Samsung if you want to install custom roms, they are really against it.
Pick a manufacturer of good build quality and software updates being stable, some manufacturers just half as them and brick the phone/ damage display/motherboard because they pushed update with wrong voltage.
if you want a basic phone and don’t really care about the most beautiful photos or do heavy mobile gaming, just pick a cheap phone, it will be more than enough.
The phone I picked was Moto G52, it cost me ~150USD and it is one of the best phone experiences I’ve had. It lasts me 2-3 days on a charge, mostly because I do close to nothing on it just answering calling/messages and some basic internet surfing. For my purpose, it is better than a top end iPhone/Android phone.
Motorola is quite slow with updates, but the community is great and created and are now maintaing custom roms, which means I get the latest software updates quite regularly. The camera is passable, but the speakers they are loud like really really loud, louder almost all smartphone.
Samsung shows ads on the phone’s lock screen…it’s that intrusive. Only people maybe spared are those with 1K+ Galaxy Phones. By this point, might as well buy an iPhone.
I’ve been buying the galaxy line of phones for a while now, currently have an S21U. I’ve never seen ads on the lock screen before. It doesn’t completely surprise me though, my Samsung TV does have some movie and TV ads on the home screen, just like my Roku and most streaming apps now.
no, it doesn’t (I’ve never seen ads on all price ranges, M12, A52s and S21FE)
maybe you accidentally activated Samsung’s “help poor people” app (forgot it’s name). It shows ads on the lockscreen and donates most of the ad revenue to charities (Samsung takes a cut tho which is a bit scummy). You can just uninstall it, like any other app.
Also, low-end Samsung phones (like M1* and A1* series) come with a hidden app called AppCloud (it regularly sends you notifications, usually after installing updates, asking you to finish setting up your phone by installing some bloatware like TikTok and stuff), make sure to disable it from the Settings.
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I looked into my options really carefully when choosing my phone last year. Few things to note, when looking for an Android phone:
The phone I picked was Moto G52, it cost me ~150USD and it is one of the best phone experiences I’ve had. It lasts me 2-3 days on a charge, mostly because I do close to nothing on it just answering calling/messages and some basic internet surfing. For my purpose, it is better than a top end iPhone/Android phone.
Motorola is quite slow with updates, but the community is great and created and are now maintaing custom roms, which means I get the latest software updates quite regularly. The camera is passable, but the speakers they are loud like really really loud, louder almost all smartphone.
Bonus points: it has a headphone jack.
Samsung shows ads on the phone’s lock screen…it’s that intrusive. Only people maybe spared are those with 1K+ Galaxy Phones. By this point, might as well buy an iPhone.
I’ve been buying the galaxy line of phones for a while now, currently have an S21U. I’ve never seen ads on the lock screen before. It doesn’t completely surprise me though, my Samsung TV does have some movie and TV ads on the home screen, just like my Roku and most streaming apps now.
no, it doesn’t (I’ve never seen ads on all price ranges, M12, A52s and S21FE)
maybe you accidentally activated Samsung’s “help poor people” app (forgot it’s name). It shows ads on the lockscreen and donates most of the ad revenue to charities (Samsung takes a cut tho which is a bit scummy). You can just uninstall it, like any other app.
Also, low-end Samsung phones (like M1* and A1* series) come with a hidden app called AppCloud (it regularly sends you notifications, usually after installing updates, asking you to finish setting up your phone by installing some bloatware like TikTok and stuff), make sure to disable it from the Settings.
He must be talking about glance on samsung.