Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a second hand phone (Budget around $400aud, ~ 1kMYR or ~$260usd)

My dream phone has:

  • Dual Sim (preferably at least one esim)
  • USB C with OTG (preferably at least usb3)
    • 2 usbC ports would be extra nice to have (allow me to dream)
  • 3.5mm headphone jack (preferably 24-bit/192kHz)
  • microSDXC slot (preferably dedicated)
    • if not dedicated then one where sticking the Sim chip to the SD card hack works
  • decent custom rom and with it android 15 support!!
  • at least 8GB RAM
  • not a potato for a camera
  • battery life to last bored geeks day
    • at least a work day of music and some comics and some brain rot on the socials and when I get home I got 20% left

Nice to have would be:

  • ok Selfie camera
  • fully charged in a hour
  • 5G
  • wifi 6
  • a decent GPS chip

Phones I'm currently kinda looking at:

  1. Sony Xperia 1 IV
    • insufficient custom Rom support, 2 guys are working on a linage port
  2. Sony Xperia 1 iii / current favourite
    • ok custom rom support, bit old, unsure about camera quality
  3. Poco x5 pro (5G)
  4. Samsung A72

I'm a big fan of OnePlus, had the 1 and 7 but hate the trend towards no headphone jack and no SDcard support and then not even a second USB port

I used LinageOS a while back and quite liked it ... On my last phone I used YAAP and loved it

Cheers for reading ... PLS drop your 2 cents below

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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

I use a redmi note 13 pro the battery life is abysmal I do not recommend redmi note

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Poco X8 Pro is going to have a silicon-based 7000 mAh Battery, but that's not out yet. Other than that it varies I guess. Though the redmi series is the bottom of the line, so far at least.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    mAH doesn't matter if your software is draining so much battery I have a 5000mAH battery the hardware is great don't get me wrong but the software sucks and there are no good ROMs for it because its MediaTek

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