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So I've been using iPhones for the last few years now due to being too lazy to look around but I'm fed up with O2 and their crappy signal around my area so it's time to change provider and with that...phone.

 

Any suggestions? The Huawei P9 showed up online and that looks quite nice. I had the Galaxy S range before my iPhone and they don't look to have changed much over the years just like iPhones, or have they?

 

Sony, HTC etc. even worth considering? I've fallen off the wagon with tech as of late so could use some pointers :)

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I too had similar frustrations with O2. I've gone for a sim free Xperia Z5 and it's very nice. Not too much manufacturer crap added over the standard android, battery life is well over the full day mark with fairly heavy use and the camera is fantastic. EE is also incredibly fast compared to O2 and the coverage is a whole lot better, so I can recommend them as a supplier.

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Anything that isnt Android based :D

 

:D

 

Any reason why? Been a while since I've used Android

 

I too had similar frustrations with O2. I've gone for a sim free Xperia Z5 and it's very nice. Not too much manufacturer crap added over the standard android, battery life is well over the full day mark with fairly heavy use and the camera is fantastic. EE is also incredibly fast compared to O2 and the coverage is a whole lot better, so I can recommend them as a supplier.

 

Their coverage has been terrible for me, even in the places you'd expect to see full signal but get nothing. My missus is on EE and she's always got at least some sort of signal. I can't even get signal in my own flat sometimes!

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I've got a nexus 6p and i'm very impressed. Battery lasts 2days, vanilla android is very fast without any hint of bugs, screen is beautiful and it takes great pictures (better than iPhones ;))

No expandable storage but seeing as it seems that google are about to give nexus owners free unlimited photo/video storage online who cares :) plus i have 64gb and i'd never use that amount anyway

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I've got a nexus 6p and i'm very impressed. Battery lasts 2days, vanilla android is very fast without any hint of bugs, screen is beautiful and it takes great pictures (better than iPhones ;))

No expandable storage but seeing as it seems that google are about to give nexus owners free unlimited photo/video storage online who cares :) plus i have 64gb and i'd never use that amount anyway

 

Second this - got my 6p about two months ago and the battery life has been fantastic, camera has been more than suitable for holiday snaps as well, big screen, good sound, the lot. The only negative I'd say is that it's very slippy and I've not come across a case I'm particularly keen on yet. Oh and USB-C charge times are brilliant too, an hour or two will bring the phone up to full or nearly full from empty.

 

Check out some reviews of them online, it's not a common phone that you see all over the place (and I'm not sure why) but many places hailed it as the best Android phone when it was reviewed a few months ago.

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Thanks for all the suggestions guys. I'll go and have a look at some reviews and maybe pay a visit to a shop and see what they can do for me. The G5 and 6P aren't phones I've heard of so that was the sort of thing I was looking for. Something out of the usual iPhone/Galaxy trail that I've been following for 5 or 6 years now :)

 

same here im on vodafone , keep getting calls to upgrade , got an S5 atm and its great , S6 is what they are offering , but i dont think its any better than the S5 reading the reviews

 

That was my thoughts with the iPhone mate. I've got a 5s at the moment in perfect condition and there's not really anything majorly appealing about the new ones so don't see the point. Something different would be nice though

 

Anything that isn't Apple based :p

 

To the OP, as usual it depends on your budget, which is...?

 

:D

 

I just go for monthly contracts over 18 months or so. 40 bucks a month is around the amount I've gone for usually

 

Nokia 4210 ;)

 

Can't argue with a classic :D

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I would personally avoid any Sony phone. I'm on my 3Rd Xperia in a row, and the build quality on the latest ones is awful. My current Z3 compact is literally falling apart, and I've only had it 7 months. The seals on the 'waterproof' doors started peeling off within a couple of weeks of getting it, the back has cracked for no apparent reason, and now the screen has started peeling off. And sometimes when you're watching videos etc it gets so hot you can barely touch it.

 

I had it sent back to Sony, they refused to do anything to sort it, but still wiped the memory from it...

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If you are looking at Android units then check out Wileyfox, my mate has one and rates it ;)

 

I was about to buy a Wileyfox as three of my friends have them, all of which have had to send them back for LED and button failures multiple times :( they looked brilliant for the money, but the quality control wasn't up to scratch. Nice looking phones, great spec and unusual, but I couldn't be doing with sending my phone away for any length of time :(

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If you are looking at Android units then check out Wileyfox, my mate has one and rates it ;)

 

I was about to buy a Wileyfox as three of my friends have them, all of which have had to send them back for LED and button failures multiple times :( they looked brilliant for the money, but the quality control wasn't up to scratch. Nice looking phones, great spec and unusual, but I couldn't be doing with sending my phone away for any length of time :(

 

They do look quite the part, well priced too! I'll have a look at reviews and see what their reliability is with other people as well as I don't really want to be sending it away all the time either

 

Ive got the S7 edge, lovely phone. Get one with the LED case :D

 

I would personally avoid any Sony phone. I'm on my 3Rd Xperia in a row, and the build quality on the latest ones is awful. My current Z3 compact is literally falling apart, and I've only had it 7 months. The seals on the 'waterproof' doors started peeling off within a couple of weeks of getting it, the back has cracked for no apparent reason, and now the screen has started peeling off. And sometimes when you're watching videos etc it gets so hot you can barely touch it.

 

I had it sent back to Sony, they refused to do anything to sort it, but still wiped the memory from it...

 

Thanks guys, I'd never really rated Sony in the phone department as a few friends of mine had experienced similar issues. Seem to be well spec'd but quality is definitely lacking.

 

S7 is on the radar. I had an S1 and S3 before iPhone so hopefully they've come on a lot since then :D

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The quality of Samsung products has declined in my opinion, the S2 was a fantastic piece of kit. I literally chucked my S5 mini in the bin because it was such a terrible handset, I had nothing but problems with it from day 1, software and hardware. I quite like small phones, which meant my only flagship class option was the Z5 compact. No problems with build quality thus far, definitely a step up from the z3.

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