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Good phones are getting cheap. Cheap phones are getting good. -Someone who is not me For what it's worth I'm still daily driving LG G2 and it's legit still fas

Good phones are getting cheap. Cheap phones are getting good. -Someone who is not me For what it's worth I'm still daily driving LG G2 and it's legit still fast, sure sometimes it's a bit sleepy but it's still more then usable!

oblio 5y ago
> Good phones are getting cheap. Cheap phones are getting good. -Someone who is not me Marques Brownlee aka MKBHD and even he admitted that's not the case anymore. Good phones are getting more and more expensive. A flagship used to cost $700 5 years ago, now it's $1000+. Cheap phones are getting good, but not at the rate that good phones are getting more expensive. > For what it's worth I'm still daily driving LG G2 and it's legit still fast, sure sometimes it's a bit sleepy but it's still more then usable! A quick Googling tells me your phone is from 2013 and can only be updated to Android 5. Your phone is either: * horrendously out of date and insecure * using a custom ROM (which I, for one, and many others probably too, don't want to do) * not used for any kind of internet facing activity (another thing that I and others don't want to do) Also, you probably have a very low bar for usability and speed. With modern OSes and sites, that phone would probably be extremely slow and laggy for my (and many others') usage. Your phone uses a Snapdragon 800 which probably has 10-15% (maybe 20-25% if I'm being generous) of the performance of a modern Snapdragon. Phones are not desktops/laptops, where performance levels plateaued in 2005.
- LoveMortuus 5y ago
  I heard it from MKBHD too, but I wasn't sure if he was the original source :P I wonder how much the inflation affected the pricing of the phones. Also you can get Poco Phone or OnePlus Nord for reasonable amount of money. But your are right that I'm not the average user since my SIM card is in a Nokia 105, purely because of the battery life. LG G2 is running a custom ROM with Android 9. And it honestly is usable. Gmail, MS Teams, Puzzle and Dragon, Dualingo and many more applications work without a problem. The probably major difference between how I use the phone and others would probably be that I don't leave applications running in the background. Probably because I think that RAM is the limiting factor here and not the CPU. I think people don't realise how powerful modern phones actually are, I mean you can record and edit 4k video on today's flagship phones and probably much more. (ps: yes I carry two phones with me, although I do quite often leave the smart one at home, since the Nokia can handle calls and messages without a problem) Interesting note, for a 8 years old phone the battery still lasts me the whole day!

oblio 5y ago

> Good phones are getting cheap. Cheap phones are getting good. -Someone who is not me Marques Brownlee aka MKBHD and even he admitted that's not the case anymore. Good phones are getting more and more expensive. A flagship used to cost $700 5 years ago, now it's $1000+. Cheap phones are getting good, but not at the rate that good phones are getting more expensive. > For what it's worth I'm still daily driving LG G2 and it's legit still fast, sure sometimes it's a bit sleepy but it's still more then usable! A quick Googling tells me your phone is from 2013 and can only be updated to Android 5. Your phone is either: * horrendously out of date and insecure * using a custom ROM (which I, for one, and many others probably too, don't want to do) * not used for any kind of internet facing activity (another thing that I and others don't want to do) Also, you probably have a very low bar for usability and speed. With modern OSes and sites, that phone would probably be extremely slow and laggy for my (and many others') usage. Your phone uses a Snapdragon 800 which probably has 10-15% (maybe 20-25% if I'm being generous) of the performance of a modern Snapdragon. Phones are not desktops/laptops, where performance levels plateaued in 2005.

LoveMortuus 5y ago
I heard it from MKBHD too, but I wasn't sure if he was the original source :P I wonder how much the inflation affected the pricing of the phones. Also you can get Poco Phone or OnePlus Nord for reasonable amount of money. But your are right that I'm not the average user since my SIM card is in a Nokia 105, purely because of the battery life. LG G2 is running a custom ROM with Android 9. And it honestly is usable. Gmail, MS Teams, Puzzle and Dragon, Dualingo and many more applications work without a problem. The probably major difference between how I use the phone and others would probably be that I don't leave applications running in the background. Probably because I think that RAM is the limiting factor here and not the CPU. I think people don't realise how powerful modern phones actually are, I mean you can record and edit 4k video on today's flagship phones and probably much more. (ps: yes I carry two phones with me, although I do quite often leave the smart one at home, since the Nokia can handle calls and messages without a problem) Interesting note, for a 8 years old phone the battery still lasts me the whole day!