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    Bye Apple and good riddance!

    So tired of this iPhone crapola...

    Lost Icloud sign in, can't recover pics from damaged phone, transfer issues, etc. etc.

    I'm done.

    Suggestions for new dumb phone?

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    Nope, none that are helpful, but I feel your pain.

    Fuck Apple and their crappy phone and even more craptastic iTunes that randomly keeps ditching half my songs / playlists -- why the fuck would I want to hear music I've brought and paid for after all.

    Gives me the shits but I'm unfortunately stuck with it / them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    Gives me the shits but I'm unfortunately stuck with it / them
    ...lost in the Apple ecosystem...

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    Get a Samsung. A Google account and Spotify. Google stores your pics like icloud.
    I recently lost my phone. Thought I'd lost all my pics.
    Imagine my delight on signing into Gmail to discover all my pics back in my album.
    And for music Spotify's the best thing since sliced bread. Free if you can tolerate a couple of innocuous ads now and then and they send me a mix every day based on my previous choices. Excellent.
    “If we stop testing right now we’d have very few cases, if any.” Donald J Trump.

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    Pretty much...


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    ^^ roger that

    switching to samsung today

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    Quote Originally Posted by hick View Post
    ^^ roger that

    switching to samsung today
    Pretty sure that you won't regret it. Significant benefit to me is having expandable storage through a SD card, as like many I've an inherent distrust of 'Cloud' or similar. I'm 6 months into a Galaxy S9+ which is a tremendous piece of kit.

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    ^^ Buy a screen saver and a case.

    The curved glass on Samsung's flagship phones are fragile as fuck. I recently paid 7200 baht to replace them both on my S8. You'd think paying 26000 baht they would be bullet proof.

    Great camera though.

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    I have an LG V30+ and love it. Better than the Samsung imho.

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    Thanks for tips

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    Xiaomi mi max 3

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    ^ I am buying one this week. Then I am going to take a hammer and beat the shit out of my Asus Zen phone. Thing has a mind of its own.

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    Last Xmas my mate was having some issues with his iPhone. After a few beers we decided to try to fix it with a pool cue and ball.

    Didn't fix it but it was immensely satisfying.

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    My plan exactly. Yesterday morning while jogging I put on Spotify and then locked my phone. Got home and there were 9 windows open. Including the flashlight on, the calculator stuck on my screen. I had called 2 people at 615 am, and the alarm was on. It had also turned off the ringer for my phone and the wife was calling me. One year good cheap phone. 1.5 years piece of shit. Wifi no longer works as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Yesterday morning while jogging I put on Spotify and then locked my phone. Got home and there were 9 windows open. Including the flashlight on, the calculator stuck on my screen. I had called 2 people at 615 am, and the alarm was on. It had also turned off the ringer for my phone and the wife was calling me. One year good cheap phone.
    I had similar issues with a Samsung phone. The issue wasn't the phone though, it was that the phone had no password to access it once swiped so it would rub in my pocket and then do all sorts of stuff that I didn't actually want it to do. Put a password on it and it will not accidentally call someone or open an app when it's in your pocket.

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    the wife went into dtac last weekend to change the sim card in mine,they all laughed when she pulled out one of the first apple i-phone 2006.
    now i got an I-MOBILE given to me from my B.I.L.FREE.
    nobody buys apple anymore.

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    Huawei does the job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dillinger View Post
    The curved glass on Samsung's flagship phones are fragile as fuck. I recently paid 7200 baht to replace them both on my S8. You'd think paying 26000 baht they would be bullet proof.
    Have one of those arriving this week. S8+ , brand new. 18000 baht.

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    Xiaomi mi max 3
    Second that. I have the Xiaomi mi max 2 and I have been very satisfied with it. I'll be getting the Mi Max 3 in about a month. The battery life is phenomenal (5500mAH), easily two days use without needing to plug in the charger. It's also a lot less pricey than that plasticy fragile way over-priced Samsung gear. You can order the Mi Max 3 on Lazada for about 9,900. You may want to wait a bit for the Global Version (probably out later this month), or if you get the Chinese/English iteration just have your local phone shop flash the global rom on it. No biggie.

    Good luck,

    xiaomi fanboy
    pues, estamos aqui

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    Yeah, they are selling like hot cakes to Thais.

    For what that's worth.

    My wife loves hers.

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    As does mine.

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    There has to be a saving, buying them from the people who are actually making them all.

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    I'm also done with Apple, phone chip started faltering 8 months from new, took it in twice and like a toothache it started behaving each time, 14 months in and phone chip's dead but everything else works fine, Apple at Central said can't fix it but 15k to swap for a new phone, told them foff, now on the market for any other.

    Mate recently bought a Chinese brand for around 8-9k, said it does everything Apple can but not into trusting unknown chink brands just yet.

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    disavowed from Apple years back, cant stand their practices. their kit looks good though, ill give them that

    I use a Huawei P10
    pretty much the best phone ive had, camera is amazing and does all the other shit I need easily enough
    and tough enough to survive 2 kids and multiple drops

    was about 10k with some true deal
    we won it at wemberlee
    we on it in gay paree...

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    Hick, whatever you decide to purchase make sure it has bands B4, B5, and/or B17 so you are able to get LTE service in the US.

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