Stock Android phone suggestion needed
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I used to have Asus Max M2 – 3 GB RAM variant. Worked like a charm (for 3+ years). Amazing photos (thanks to the beauty mode in it and those clicks looked natural) + Never hanged/lagged + no bloatware. Unfortunately, it got water damage and no one is able to revive that.
What I’m now looking for is (mandatory features) -
A phone with stock Android.
6 GB RAM + 128 GB internal memory
Dedicated memory card slot
3.5 mm jack + data cable separate from charger
Carrier aggregation
Voice over wifi
Dual band wifi
Decent camera (or if the stock camera app is not good then can we use gcam mods or other popular camera apps?)
Which is the cheapest smartphone with the above specs?
Nice to have – lightweight, NFC support but not mandatory. These days phones are big bulky that doesn’t fit in pockets. Sadly, we can’t do much about it.
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Thanks. Do most banking and UPI apps work with such custom ROMs?
Moto G40 Fusion
Thanks. It has dedicated memory card slot?
How is the camera? Have you used it?
Wait for nothing phone.
Asus 8z?
Motorola G71 5G
Pick moto phone if you need those features.
And yes MAX M2 was a truly long-lasting phone. Hope they added a successor to it.
Yeah, looks like Moto phones are the only option.
My needs are also same. I have realme 3 pro and Max pro M1. I am recieving updates for realme 3 pro but stopped receiving updates for max pro 2 years back. But still max pro works more smoothly than realme. Realme used to work great till last year. Now I think realme purposely made it slow with buggy updates.
PS: camera of realme is far better and it’s compact as compared to Asus. But Asus is metal body and looks more solid.
never update ur phone if u wanna use it for more than 2 years
One way is to buy Oneplus/Xiaomi device and flash a custom AOSP-based ROM. Most Oneplus & Xiaomi devices esp. those with Qualcomm SoC enjoy pretty decent custom ROM development. Plus in both warranty is NOT void if you unlock the bootloader and root and/or flash a custom ROM. A few financial apps or even games might be problematic. GCam can improve imaging quality in certain cases but it could be that all cams might not work, front cam could operate at a reduced resolution etc.
Otherwise Pixels obviously and Moto devices with near stock Android.
Edit: In Redmi devices CA is usually limited, 2CA mostly. I don’t know if it has improved off late.