What smartphones does everyone here use, in Fall 2021
Me:
I use a Google Pixel 4a 5G
Phenomenal camera, great battery life, vibrant display and mostly reliable!
dftf
<p>I’m sure there are videos of people installing Android on various <em>Windows Phone </em>devices, so you could keep the hardware but install an OS you can actually still get apps for…</p>
dftf
<p>Yeah, it’s hard to find something small in the Android world that doesn’t also mean "crap spec". Your phone is 13.2cm tall by 6.4cm wide. The closest I can find are the Samsung Galaxy A40 or Google Pixel 4a (the non-5G model), both of which are approx 14.4cm tall and 6.9cm wide (or the Samsung Galaxy S10e is 14.2cm by 7.0cm).</p><p><br></p><p>Sadly, the Sony Xperia Compact range (13.0×6.5cm for the 2017 "XZ1", or 13.5×6.5cm for the 2018 "XZ2") aren’t a thing in Western markets, thesedays. Both of those are very-similar sizes to your one, but I doubt there is anything remotely-close in the Android world now.</p>
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<p><strong>Pixel 3a</strong>, and sadly only May next-year until guaranteed updates will stop.</p><p><br></p><p>Given how many parts of the OS have been put into the <em>Play Store</em> to get updated outside of monthly-updates I might risk keep using it until the <em>Black Friday </em>period and see what’s on-offer then (maybe a Pixel 7a or 8a by then?). Shame though, as it’s pretty-much all still working-fine, aside from (the expected) slightly-less battery-capacity than when new, and some slight speaker-crackle when the volume is near-full. But were updates still offered, I’d be fine to keep on using it longer…</p>