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Thinking of going to Xiaomi as my ancient Pixel phone is starting to crap out. Seen some horror stories about updates not working or messing up devices on reddit-logo though, anyone have good long-term use experiences with them? Would rather not mess with custom roms because I need to use mobile banking apps that tend not to play nice with them.

[-] JK1348@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

I can't use a Xiaomi in SoCal, USA :(

I love this brand so much the phones are incredible but none of the carriers like them, and I did everything I could to make it work but it got in the way of my self employment and I had to switch to a Google.

It worked flawlessly back home In Central America tho

Yeah. Not a huge fan of the goog especially lately for obvious reasons but at least you're somewhat limiting the number of western companies spying on you to the one, and they do offer good hardware for the price... Might go that way again too if I can't be convinced the potential issues are worth it idk

At least they aren't apple

[-] JK1348@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

They're great products, it's just obvious they're being blackballed in the US market

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