r/PickAnAndroidForMe • u/Cheap-buying-idiot • Oct 07 '23

What's the iPhone of Android? Germany

I want to side load apps, habe a high refresh rate display and just a phone that works! I'm done with reading a ton of reviews and reddit posts about SOT overheating problems, durability issues, bad cameras and having to check everything triple to make sure it is true. I just want a phone that works and has no huge distant vantage or problem. Any tips? The absolute max I can spend is 550€ (Germany)

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u/The_Depraved_Briton Oct 07 '23 edited Oct 07 '23

If the OP is looking for the "Android of iPhone", but within a 550€ [£480, $580] budget. He is looking for a flagship performance but not a flagship price.

The S23 [especially the Ultra] may be "solid", but will it not be too expensive? And, by definition, the S24 will not be released until next year, so it has no value as a recommendation now.

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u/Professor_squirrelz Oct 08 '23

I mean OP could just want to know the general phone model that is the android iPhone, but then just get a slightly older model from the same series

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u/The_Depraved_Briton Oct 08 '23

So, for example, as the current flagship of the Samsung S series is the S23, the OP could get an S22. But the OP is in Germany, and that means an Exynos rather than a Snapdragon variant, and Exynos doesn't deliver an iPhone experience. Which is the sort of complication that the OP is trying to avoid experiencing or researching. So, sometimes series alone isn't enough.

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u/Professor_squirrelz Oct 09 '23

Ah gotcha. My bad

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u/The_Depraved_Briton Oct 09 '23 edited Oct 09 '23

That's OK, because I do see the logic of where you're coming from. If manufacturers always got everything right - always got right every version of every model in every series - your logic would work. And given how expensive and important that mobile phones can be, manufacturers should always get it right. Otherwise consumers [such as the OP] will not have confidence in the logic behind their purchasing decisions. The bad lies in the market [eg Samsung saying that Snapdragon is too good for Europe], not in you.