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My Xiaomi 12 Lite is already dead

Ouch, that's quite unlucky. I was always under the impression Xiaomi's were pretty good quality for what they were. The old man has had a Redmi for going on two years now and it seems to be doing alright. Good thing you've been able to return it.
I was gutted when I went back upstairs to check on the update status. Was such a nice well built phone. The tidied up MIUI 13 made it the best xiaomi phone I’d owned to date (or so I thought)
 
The best way to avoid issues with volte, wifi calling, etc, is to buy a phone directly from the network. No excuses if it doesn't work.

About "Nothing", their focus seems to be more on the "experience" than on things like software updates. Not a problem for most, but we should keep in mind that they're not Samsung, Google, OnePlus, etc. For now it's a niche brand with a niche product.

If you're not going to do anything advanced with Android, maybe an iPhone could also be a good choice? It's not for me, but an iPhone 12 from 2 years ago gives you 5G, still another 3 years of support to go, and wifi calling should work fine.

Regarding Xiaomi, I don't know if it's because they're more mainstream now in the west now, but I feel that their cheaper phones are having more failures now? Some have widespread issues. See the Poco X3 Pro/NFC which had a PMIC/motherboard failure on many devices, for example. Mine was working fine for ~3 months, then I gave it to my mother (restored everything to stock MIUI, locked it, etc) and the sound died after less than a month.

Their flagships might be better, but the mid/low-end devices are like the fast food of mobile phones. I only buy them for the price/hardware/custom ROM support.
Wouldn’t touch an iPhone with a barge pole. I think the nothing phone has what I want, it’s a pixel without tensor + better specs for the price, that’s how I see it at least. Samsung manufacturing Tensor is what majorly put me off, especially after reading of heat and battery issues (smells of exynos).
 

For example, if an SoC initially launched with support for Android 11, then its vendor implementation could be “frozen” at that release. When upgrading to Android 12, 13, or 14, that device could then reuse the vendor implementation designed for Android 11 and still pass certification tests.

Snap 778 has an Android 11-based vendor, which is the oldest vendor version that Android 14 will be compatible with. This means that Nothing will struggle to update the Phone 1 past Android 14. As of now they made no effort to extend this in any way, staying on 11-based vendor.
 


This doesn’t bother me. As long as I keep getting extra security updates (which I will for another year thereafter), This issue will also affect the Xiaomi 12 Lite as that runs a 778G chip too.
 
I just got my Flip4 today, and within a second of using it I had to set it to silent until I get around to changing the sounds.

I forgot how much I hate the default Samsung sounds, I thought they would have changed since I had my Galaxy S4, but they haven't. They're still awful!
 
I just got my Flip4 today, and within a second of using it I had to set it to silent until I get around to changing the sounds.

I forgot how much I hate the default Samsung sounds, I thought they would have changed since I had my Galaxy S4, but they haven't. They're still awful!
no matter what phone i own, they live on vibrate mode. I have a galaxy watch, it does all i need notifications wise and silently which is much better than sound, especially at work or places you have to be quiet.
 
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no matter what phone i own, they live on vibrate mode. I have a galaxy watch, it does all i need notifications wise and silently which is much better than sound, especially at work or places you have to be quiet.
I was like that until I got my Oneplus with the alert slider. It was very convenient to keep changing it to vibrate whenever I needed it rather than leaving it on.
 
There's only one place I have my phone on do not disturb simply because it's poor manners to have it blasting out.

Other then that I just leave the ringer on using whatever default tone I can be bothered to use.

Anyway the best phone I've ever had which is indestructible was the Motorola Moto G 5G* I found this out the hard way when I dropped it in a bucket of cleaning chemicals at work and found it still worked fine afterwards although I don't recommend doing so.

*This edition was only available for sale in Europe as the UK market only had the Plus model which has terrible battery life compared to the vanilla one.
 
A friend Xiaomi phone can't remember the model bricked it self on update a few months back, I've had a few of their phone year back MI5 and Poco F1 the build quality was good, I've heard the build quality is crappy nowadays.

I did have a Mi 11 Lite 5G last year returned it within a week the screen had a awful tint can't remember the colour and anything more CPU taxing than opening the phone book would cause it to run hot a hell.
 
Shame they're going downhill, my Poco F2 is still good after 2+ years, the F3 and F4 are not so great. I might have to switch to Realme when I get my next phone!
 
A friend Xiaomi phone can't remember the model bricked it self on update a few months back, I've had a few of their phone year back MI5 and Poco F1 the build quality was good, I've heard the build quality is crappy nowadays.

I did have a Mi 11 Lite 5G last year returned it within a week the screen had a awful tint can't remember the colour and anything more CPU taxing than opening the phone book would cause it to run hot a hell.
Yeah, a friend of mine’s dad had a Mi 11 lite and after a month of using it, the battery refused to charge. I opened it up, found the battery connected hadn’t been plugged in properly by whoever made the phone. Real shame they’ve started to become cheap cheap, not good cheap like they were before.
 
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