As someone that's used Huawei phones in the past, they're not great. Still plagued with most of the issues modern smartphones have. Shitty updates and support unless you bought the flagship model, EMUI is a pile of nonsense compared to almost everything else, stock android is much better, and even Samsung has a better UI. Locked bootloader because reasons. Unfortunately it's not good
100% would replace my phone with one of these if it was an option. I remember keeping my Droid 4 alive by swapping to fresh batteries for years after they stopped updating it until even the texting app was unusably slow because of how much I loved the keyboard on it.
Nobody is willing to make a phone that sacrifices battery capacity for lifespan (by limiting charge to the 20-90% range)
My Asus Zenfone 3(?) hand this implemented as a settings option.
Also this whole battery problem could be solved by selling new batteries, even those new squishy ones. My friend got a battery for his four year old phone changed at a repair shop but it ended up barely any better than his old battery. It's always the case for some reason...
At the end of the day, it's just a product they want to sell in order to grow and obtain the skills for domestic ARM chip manufacturing. And for that, it's a massive success. And it's not as if the phones are terrible or anything, they're just another smartphone, with all the issues that they have
As someone that's used Huawei phones in the past, they're not great. Still plagued with most of the issues modern smartphones have. Shitty updates and support unless you bought the flagship model, EMUI is a pile of nonsense compared to almost everything else, stock android is much better, and even Samsung has a better UI. Locked bootloader because reasons. Unfortunately it's not good
I just don't understand in 2021 why no one seems capable of making a decent smartphone that doesn't crap out after a couple of years.
Probably planned obsolescence.
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TAKE MY FUXKING MONEY
100% would replace my phone with one of these if it was an option. I remember keeping my Droid 4 alive by swapping to fresh batteries for years after they stopped updating it until even the texting app was unusably slow because of how much I loved the keyboard on it.
Wait so just to be clear, taking my phone off the charger at 90% and not letting it hit 20% would improve longevity of the battery?
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you can replace your own battery for pretty cheap these days. just buy the repair tool kit and the battery. just did mine for $20.
My Asus Zenfone 3(?) hand this implemented as a settings option.
Also this whole battery problem could be solved by selling new batteries, even those new squishy ones. My friend got a battery for his four year old phone changed at a repair shop but it ended up barely any better than his old battery. It's always the case for some reason...
At the end of the day, it's just a product they want to sell in order to grow and obtain the skills for domestic ARM chip manufacturing. And for that, it's a massive success. And it's not as if the phones are terrible or anything, they're just another smartphone, with all the issues that they have
you can replace your own battery for pretty cheap these days. just buy the repair tool kit and the battery. just did mine for $20.