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How to buy a cheap new phone? (lemmy.ml)
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All the guides I've seen are like "check out this budget phone for $350, it has five cameras"

I only need one camera and it just has to be good enough to take pictures of documents while still being readable.

Android 12

Like 16gb storage minimum. 2gb ram minimum.

Most phones seem to be way over those specs knocking up price. A bunch that r more affordable don't go up to Android 12. I assume Android 12 is important so I don't get hacked when I'm trying to do banking on my phone on unsecured public Wi-Fi (which is where I do all my banking :( )

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The battery should probably be fine if the phone was made sometime the past 2-3 years, or if only lightly used by the previous owner. I haven't owned enough phones to make much more than that unqualified prediction, however. I believe one term for a run-down battery is "spent."

I happened to get my Pixel from a bloke who was upgrading to a newer phone just because he could, and only used it a year or so. The battery life is still excellent a year later under daily use.

I pick hardware based on which operating system I want to use. Getting a carrier and bootloader unlocked phone is my basis for searching, alongside price.

Although it has been claimed Google's Pixels go to some lengths to implement security features with Android that other phones possibly don't have. As a bonus, if you get an unlockable Pixel, the bootloader may be relocked when using another OS. But I am not particularly knowledgeable about such things.