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> > I was talking with a MediaMarkt employee last week, we were talking smartphones and we both were dumbstruck about iphone prices. We agree it's good hardware
by johnchristopher 5y ago
> > I was talking with a MediaMarkt employee last week, we were talking smartphones and we both were dumbstruck about iphone prices. We agree it's good hardware/products but the price is insance.
> They start at $400, right? Only really, really budget Android phones come in much under that.
More like 489€. I don't know what's apple most sold devices for this year though.
I have an old not-budget phone (z5c) from 6 years ago that is still going strong. Stuck on android 7.1, bought used for 250€ 4 years ago.
I am still living in a world where a 200/250 phone should be okay, things might have changed.
But we were talking about the whole offer, not the least expensive phone.
- rjzzleep 5y agoMight wanna take a look at the following. I had an z3c that had a better supported android version from xda than a more recent xz2c because of their camera DRM and kernel bugs. Sony dev community has mostly dried up ... https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/xperia-z5-compact-android-development.4576/ https://forum.xda-developers.com/f/xperia-z5-compact-android...
- johnchristopher 5y agoYeah but no. I did that at one time but it's a huge time sink and I didn't retain useful knowledge or skills.