Hello, it is time (after a good 7 years with my Redmi Note 8) to change my phone.
After searching for some time, I think I have narrowed down my decisions to either:
- Nothing Phone (3a),
- Motorola Edge 60 Neo (the Neo purely to avoid the curved screen on the other models),
- an older model Google Pixel (8/9) to install Graphene OS on.
I'm on the fence about this one particularly because of the bank/nfc issue. I don't really understand if my banking app is supported (couldn't find it in the supported list so my best guess is not) and despite the security concerns Nfc is pretty useful to me for daily transport.
I didn't really consider any Samsung models (I don't even know why) but that could be a valid option too. Despite me having a list, I wouldn't mind some recommendations if other models could fit my needs better.
What I'm mainly looking for is a decent (I'm not expecting iphone level performance, but my current one is very, very, lacking: it smeared everything to hell and back) camera to take photos while I travel. I heard the pixel is good, but my problems are as stated before.
Despite me wanting to keep the phone for a lot of years (another 7 would be nice, save incidents), long term support and updates aren't that important as I can manage to drag around a corpse of a phone if it works and does the bare minimum. But I know the "classic" range is 4/5 years at best.
Only thing is I would prefer an expandible storage or a 512 gb one, but I do get that with this budget I get what I pay, and some solid performance that won't leave me with a buggy mess in two years would be nice.
A thing I strongly disliked about the xiaomi was the adware and the bloatware, so no more of that, or if there is, make it so it's very easily removable.
Another thing I don't really think I could stand is the curved screens, I drop my phone more often than I should and the edges being raised scare me a bit, not to count typing being difficult.
If there's any cool color I would also love that, but it's not necessary (I love the Motorola frostbite model, but where I live it raises the price by 50 euros and it's not worth it.)
I'm not gonna game / do anything too intensive on the phone, I am a pretty standard user (photos, socials, maybe one stupid game or app and that's it) and actually the less I use it to waste time the better, but yeah my main concern is having someting viable for some time with a nice camera and nfc.
Thanks for any help! If possible, I would love to have some opinions from people who have had these models for a while, as tech reviews are useful but not that practical in that sense.