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Which phone should I buy?

mikestratford2003

mikestratford2003

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I'm after a phone that's reliable and can run smoothly , has a good camera and runs reliably . Battery isn't an issue nor is price. I have narrowed my choice down to LG V20 or Moto G5s Plus. Baring in mind the LG is much older but higher specs while the Moto is much more new and has lower specs. Which should I buy?
 
if both are new.. with warranty?

then i would get the LG... because it has higher specs.
and paired with a LG bluetooth headset.. like the LG Platnum.. gets you great sound.
 
I just bought an LG k20 plus and honestly, I hate it. It's too light and even though all the sites say it's rootable, I'm having a hell of a time doing so. The sound is really good though.
 
If you're after a budgety but good, Geotel Note 4 is a phone I'd recommend. I've not experienced any lag as long as I've had it and am quite happy with it.
But there's that it's a Chinese brand so a few apps recognize it as a 'rooted' phone when it isn't. Android Pay does that but I never use it.
 
PhilipX20 said:
If you're after a budgety but good, Geotel Note 4 is a phone I'd recommend. I've not experienced any lag as long as I've had it and am quite happy with it.
But there's that it's a Chinese brand so a few apps recognize it as a 'rooted' phone when it isn't. Android Pay does that but I never use it.
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When it comes to China phones I've always stuck with and recommend going with the main well-known brands, like Huawei(Honor), ZTE, Oppo, Lenovo(Motorola), Vivo, Xiaomi, OnePlus, Meizu, and the like. If apps recognised the phone as rooted, that could effectively make it useless as a smart-phone to me.
 
The number of pixels tells you very little about camera quality. If you care about that read some reviews and look at real world shots taken with the camera (full resolution, no filters) in different lighting conditions and decide whether they are good enough.

For smartphone cameras the image processing is more important than the sensor (unless the sensor is truly rubbish) and the sensor size and technology are both more important than the pixel count. Since spec sheets tell you nothing about the software (and unless you are an expert, not much about sensor quality) you genuinely cannot judge camera quality from the specs - though if you see a small sensor with high pixel count you should expect noise (pixel size is a better indicator of possible quality than the number of pixels). So there really is no alternative to looking at sample shots and judging for yourself whether it's good enough for you.
 
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Is the V20 still available new and did they fix the bootloop issue now that the lawsuit has been settled?

I have no idea as I don't follow the LG stuff day to day.

I bought a used LG G3 on Ebay back in 2016 as a backup phone and it still works fine.
 
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