To celebrate a particular movie’s nominations for the Golden Globes next Sunday, Jan 7, we are hosting our very own Golden Lemmy award for Best Android Device on !android@lemmy.world.

Rules are simple, tell us about your favorite Android phone from 2023 in the top level comment, and the device with the most up votes wins the esteemed and coveted Golden Lemmy Award, along with 1 Lemmy Silver.

Our regular discussion will resume in 2 weeks.

    • SinningStromgald@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      Agreed. I don’t think there were any top tier phones, hardware wise, that have all the things people want in a cellphone: IR blaster, SD slot, headphone jack, high-end chipset , great screen and a big battery just doesn’t exist. Probably added on there would be ease of installing custom OS as well but most would settle for a phone that didn’t if it had all the previous.

      All that said I think the Golden Lemmy should go to the biggest disappointment instead.

      • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        With the exception of the chipset, my Redmi Note 11 has those. I’m even running a nice Rom that let me escape the original garbage OS on it. I’ve heard Xiaomi will stop unlocking the devices, so I think my only other option will be Motorola in the future.

        • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          That appears to be 4g only, but it is affordable, so I guess I should have considered it.

          • machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            There’s a 5G version as well

            These aren’t necessarily top end phones, but not bad once you get a new ROM for it.