#39

Oh that’s good. They upped the cost for feel at home a few years back and it went from 13 to 18ish. Good if they’ve dropped it, although possibly I wanted a specific data limit or text/minutes hence the cost?

#40

I concur. This works well for me.

#41

I bought a refurbished HTC One M8 some time back, and it was fine. To replace a Sony, that was so buggy and slow I couldn’t live with it.

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#42

They’re still decent value compared to other top end phones.

My OnePlus 3 is still going very strong after 30 months. My previous android handsets were practically unusably slow by 24 months.

#43

My OnePlus 3 is also still great but I still think anyone paying above that £300-350 mark for a phone is a mug.

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#44

I mean if the cheaper ones work as well I totally agree. I just saw too many phones lose steam by 24 months so I’d bite the bullet and pay the extra for a new OnePlus if this had to be replaced

#45

It’s always batteries for me - never really noticed slowdown with androids. I wish HTC still made decent phones, they were always my favourite but they’ve really gone downhill.

#46

A fair point but also in this case the OnePlus 3 is still doing roughly 24 hours with average use

#47

Is this for worldwide or just European Feel At Home? I’m going to Hong Kong next month and my essentials plan on 3 doesn’t cover it…

#48

I’m on an advanced plan so it includes loads of places (but not the private data network on DFDS ferries, absolute shower of cunts)

#49

Need to get on the phone to them and get a better plan in that case (seeing as I was out of contract in 2017) :thinking:

#52

I was able to do mine over their webchat - pretty painless and I went from £11/month to £8 (4gb, unlimited texts and calls, “go roam” included).

#53

Right, doing this right now. I’m paying £9/month for 4gb and unlimited texts/calls but I want my free stuff in Hong Kong :rage:

#54

Why do they lose steam?

When e.g chrome books which run on similar OS are prized for longevity

#55

Oh I just mean the whole phone seems to take longer and longer to do anything and clearing down storage doesn’t help.

The OnePlus 3 has a 6GB cache on the chip which is quite large so maybe that helps

#56

Phones use flash memory for storage, this degrades fairly rapidly and gets slower and slower once cells die. Same happens to computers with ssd itll eventually get to a point where everything is so hard to read itll bring the computer/Phone to a crawl.

#57

Yeah I get it, I’ve experienced it too, it’s just that chromebooks don’t do this, despite mostly running on low power cpus and memory.

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#58

A tedious 30 minutes on the phone playing hardball, but eventually Petagno wins…

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#59

I mean at a guess:

  • Chromebooks are made by different manufacturers who may simply be using better components.
  • They’re bigger and so can take advantage of better components with better heat dissipation
  • The components are also more spread out not rammed on top of each other
  • few (any) will be all wrapped around a mobile phone microwave transmitter/receiver which is constantly running.
  • No matter how used I doubt that the average Chromebook is on 24/7 processing a lot. Maybe 18 hours a day at most and certainly I doubt that would be an average figure?
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#60

Yeah fair, it’s just the contradiction between average laptops lasting ~18 months before slowing, android phones maybe a touch more than that but not really*, and chromebooks having 5 years+ lifespan as a selling point.

*(why do phones constantly need and introduce higher power handsets, when a chromebook just bungs shite old atoms and stuff in and run fine)

Having said that - of course when I bought an expensive chromebook it had all sorts of hardware issues and I had to return it, yet my 18 month old budget Chinese smartphone is still powering through.