This will be nice if and only if there is a way to install a custom android version.
Otherwise it'll be bogged down with bloatware and will be useless as soon as security updates aren't available anymore.
But if so, very nice :)
Otherwise it'll be bogged down with bloatware and will be useless as soon as security updates aren't available anymore.
But if so, very nice :)
I'm actually excited for this. My family tends to shop in this price range, and you've got a lot of fairly interchangeable phones out there. It ends up being sort of frustrating because there's no obvious right choice.
Now you have a simple argument. You don't have to deep dive explain to Mom the difference between CPUs or manufacturer update policies, just "If this one breaks, it can be fixed without a huge production number."
There was a time when one of the (admittedly secondary) arguments for buying an iPhone or Galaxy S (as opposed to a cheaper alternative) was that the local fix shops had a lot of dead scrap units and could arrange for a cheap quick fix, while if you bought a Nokia or Umidigi, you were waiting weeks for them to get parts and it was probably twice the cost because they didn't want to work on a phone they weren't wildly familiar with.
The parent comments weren’t specific about whether this phone’s bootloader can be unlocked, but when they talk about this phone’s locked bootloader, I think unlockability is the issue they are really talking about.
Based on some superficial Googling, this phone's predecessor, G21 also comes without an unlockable bootloader.
Cool thing about 6.1 is that it's officially supported by LineageOS