I’ll give a short overview of my experience with the phone thus far. In general, I’m pretty happy with it. For now it’s adequately snappy. It does lag in some apps and has some odd behavior (YouTube seems to lock the refresh rate to 60 as soon as any preview starts playing, even if it’s off screen, making scrolling not as smooth), but in general the responsiveness of the phone itself is very good. They have some annoying bugs. For example, they still haven’t fixed the screen being locked to like 10Hz when unlocking the phone sometimes. But, in general, it hasn’t really been a problem, have been using it without much issue. The most annoying part has to be the positioning of the volume buttons, for me at least. They’re positioned on the left side of the phone, directly opposite to the power button, so I’m constantly taking accidental screenshots. It’s extremely annoying, and I don’t understand why they decided to put it there. As someone else mentioned, there are tiny gaps between the screen and the frame, as well as some other seams, so some dead skin gets in there making the phone look a bit dirty, but it isn’t too bad. Double tap to wake is pretty bad, it often doesn’t register double taps properly, and it often gets accidentally activated in my pocket, making the phone try to dial emergency services, forcing me to disable it.
While I have been quite critical when listing the faults, in general I’m still happy with the phone. I was actually surprised by the camera. It’s nothing special, but I expected it to be worse. However, it has much beter performance than I expected, especially in low light, just that the zoom is very bad since it doesn’t have an optical zoom lense. It does what I need it to while being more repairable and from a more ethical company, so if you need a mid range phone, and don’t mind minor inconveniences, I’d recommend it.
I’ll give a short overview of my experience with the phone thus far. In general, I’m pretty happy with it. For now it’s adequately snappy. It does lag in some apps and has some odd behavior (YouTube seems to lock the refresh rate to 60 as soon as any preview starts playing, even if it’s off screen, making scrolling not as smooth), but in general the responsiveness of the phone itself is very good. They have some annoying bugs. For example, they still haven’t fixed the screen being locked to like 10Hz when unlocking the phone sometimes. But, in general, it hasn’t really been a problem, have been using it without much issue. The most annoying part has to be the positioning of the volume buttons, for me at least. They’re positioned on the left side of the phone, directly opposite to the power button, so I’m constantly taking accidental screenshots. It’s extremely annoying, and I don’t understand why they decided to put it there. As someone else mentioned, there are tiny gaps between the screen and the frame, as well as some other seams, so some dead skin gets in there making the phone look a bit dirty, but it isn’t too bad. Double tap to wake is pretty bad, it often doesn’t register double taps properly, and it often gets accidentally activated in my pocket, making the phone try to dial emergency services, forcing me to disable it.
While I have been quite critical when listing the faults, in general I’m still happy with the phone. I was actually surprised by the camera. It’s nothing special, but I expected it to be worse. However, it has much beter performance than I expected, especially in low light, just that the zoom is very bad since it doesn’t have an optical zoom lense. It does what I need it to while being more repairable and from a more ethical company, so if you need a mid range phone, and don’t mind minor inconveniences, I’d recommend it.