• Fake4000@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Good phone, too bad its a Chinese brand.

    Redmagic is owned by Nubia. If there is something I would never do is get a Chinese branded phones. Wouldn’t touch them with a 10m pole.

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      11 months ago

      Why not? Some of the easiest bootloaders to unlock in the smartphone market are in chinese phones.

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            11 months ago

            Well the US isn’t nearly as has or obvious as far as I can tell. Cell phones as a whole a problematic but we can at least limit the damage

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              11 months ago

              The US came up with that kind of surveillance, as Snowden has shown us… From an outside perspective they seem just as bad, if not worse than China.

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                11 months ago

                Well the US doesn’t backdoor motherboards to my knowledge. China on the other hand puts literal backdoors on motherboards

                You could try to argue that Intel ME is a backdoor but to my knowledge its only hypothetical with no use in the wild.

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      11 months ago

      ROG Phones are better, however the neglected quality of ASUS products has affected a lot of customers.

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        11 months ago

        Can you give more details please?

        Not sure what quality issues you are talking about here.

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          11 months ago

          After I watched JayzTwoCents video about ASUS, I feel I want to skip the brand, prompting the ROG Phone quality in the future to be similar to Chinese OEMs’.