Team-BHP - Android Thread: Phones / Apps / Mods

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Originally Posted by dmplog (Post 4663290)

Have you considered Samsung A50? I have been using it for a month or so. My short review is in this thread couple of pages back.

The A50 has a screen flicker rate of 119 hz, which is too low. Be careful if your eyes are sensitive to screen flicker.

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Originally Posted by shipnil (Post 4662926)

Folks, query to all members.

I am looking to buy a handset in the upcoming Flipkart / Amazon sale. Below is what I am looking for.
1. OLED screen
2. 4gb / 64 gb
3. Must be under 72 mm, width
4. Excellent camera.
5. Budget, under 30k.
6. Headphone jack. won't like to carry connector everywhere as I have kept different headphones at diff places and like to use anyone which is near to me

With these, only few devices I can find. Top contenders are Pixel 3a, Galaxy S9 and Mi A3.

I gifted a Nokia 8.1 4GB/64GB plus dual sim to my wife, and her requirements were very much the same, except for budget around 15k. The price of Nokia 8.1 plus was reduced to 16k a few weeks ago, from its listing price of 28k.

The phone screen is not OLED, but it is Puredisplay HDR10 screen and youtube videos look gorgeous on it. The phone's design is really beautiful. I think it is the only mobile with optical image stabilization under 20-25k, and the camera quality is very good (even comparable to my Pixel 2 XL).

I envy the 3.5mm jack on that phone, as my pixel does not have it and I have to carry a stupid USB C to 3.5mm dongle if I want to use any headphone.

I suggest Nokia 8.1 as you are open to cross shopping from the lower budget as well.

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Originally Posted by ani_meher (Post 4663321)

I think it is the only mobile with optical image stabilization under 20-25k

Motorola One Vision is another at much lower price point which comes with Android One OS. Price will be further discounted during the upcoming 30th Sept sale on Flipkart. The state of the art gestures features of Motorola phones are ice on the cake.

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Originally Posted by civic-sense (Post 4663314)

The A50 has a screen flicker rate of 119 hz, which is too low. Be careful if your eyes are sensitive to screen flicker.

I didn't notice flicker at all. Screen is gorgeous to log at though.

What is the flicker rate of normal phones by the way?

Hi Guys! I have a couple of queries:

1. I have a OnePlus 5T 128GB with 8GB ROM (1 Yr 9 months old) which is mostly unused since I upgraded few months back. Today, I got an offer of 17.5K for it. Is it a good price? Should I sell it off?

2. Also, how do I completely wipe off the phone should I chose to sell it off? The fear of my pics and other data getting used by others has kept me away from selling the phone all this time.

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Originally Posted by Pancham (Post 4663524)

2. Also, how do I completely wipe off the phone should I chose to sell it off? The fear of my pics and other data getting used by others has kept me away from selling the phone all this time.

You could do a factory reset. This would make the data unusable. If you feel you need an even more secure option, you could first encrypt your data, and then do a factory reset.

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Originally Posted by dmplog (Post 4663502)

I didn't notice flicker at all. Screen is gorgeous to log at though.

What is the flicker rate of normal phones by the way?

You won't notice any flicker, but rather have problems like headache, eyestrain etc if you are sensitive.

Good OLED panels should have values above 250 which is considered relatively safe. LCDs usually does not have flicker, and the ones that do flicker have it only at very low brightness.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/PWM-Ra....163979.0.html

These days, some manufacturers (Apple, Oneplus, Oppo, Realme) etc offers local dimming option which users can enable with a caveat that it can affect display quality. But at very low brightness they may still resort to flicker.

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Originally Posted by swissknife (Post 4663527)

You could do a factory reset. This would make the data unusable. If you feel you need an even more secure option, you could first encrypt your data, and then do a factory reset.

Ok thanks!

Another quick question, For Google Photos, if I factory reset the phone, will the photos stored in Google Photos also get deleted? Asking this since when we manually delete photos in the phone, they get deleted Google Photos as well.

Also, how do I ensure the same for contacts since they are also synced with Google.

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Originally Posted by Pancham (Post 4663707)

No, your photos wouldn't be deleted from Google photos if you do a factory reset. It stays on your account till you manually delete it.

By default, your contacts should be on your google account. You could log into your Google account to double check. If it's not synced, you could initiate a sync as well.

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Originally Posted by Pancham (Post 4663707)

Please be aware that if you are using free storage, the files in store is extremely compressed (lossy compression - 100-200kb). So take a backup. Else you will end up with mediocre quality photos.

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Originally Posted by Pancham (Post 4663707)

Ok thanks!

Asking this since when we manually delete photos in the phone, they get deleted Google Photos as well.

If you want to delete the photos only from your device and not from the cloud, select the photo, and "Delete from device" from the options (3 dots on right top). Learnt this the hard way. :)

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Originally Posted by civic-sense (Post 4663726)

Please be aware that if you are using free storage, the files in store is extremely compressed (lossy compression - 100-200kb). So take a backup. Else you will end up with mediocre quality photos.

The loss is not very significant in most cases.

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Originally Posted by DigitalOne (Post 4663735)

The loss is not very significant in most cases.

Maybe my camera should have given me a 100kb JPEG and not bothered giving me a 3mb file.

Storage is cheap. So cheap that you don't really need to compress your photos to 100kb. I may use Google Photos as a secondary storage, not my primary photo vault. Better buy a cheap hard drive or a NAS if you can't afford a cloud storage plan.

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Originally Posted by civic-sense (Post 4663869)

I mentioned "most" cases. Seeing that this thread is about Android Phones not DSLR or photography related, the typical use cases would be your routine photos, not professional. Please read the article quoted earlier; Google Photos compression is just about half, not thirty times as you seem to think.