As the title says, the mainboard of my phone broke and repairing it would cost more than a new one. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'd like to be able to change the battery, if possible. Thanks for any help in advance.
As the title says, the mainboard of my phone broke and repairing it would cost more than a new one. Does anyone have any recommendations? I'd like to be able to change the battery, if possible. Thanks for any help in advance.
Depends on budget, ideally you'd want something with a high refresh rate display and 4 big/high performance cores on the CPU, and with a Snapdragon chipset instead of MediaTek or Exynos. The mail GPUs in those chipsets are missing key driver features. Dual source blending implementation being a key missing feature if you emulate games on your phone. They also generally have worse battery life. The cheapest phone I could find with all these features is the Xiaomi Redmi note 12 4g, for around 160US dollars.
If you want more performance and premium features, like better cameras, faster chipset, 5g, etc, getting last year's flagships on a stock clearance discount is always a great option. But they will be a bit more expensive. It's what I did about 3 years ago and my phone is still going strong.