Hi guys,

Any recommendation on phone that is suitable for parents that is not savy in tech?

Preferable Android version, high in RAM for them to store picture and video, and battery last longer. Budget is less than RM1k, about 600-800 (if possible). No need to be latest one, probably 2018-2020 phone.

Thank you.

Poco X3 Pro, or realme 8, Redmi 10 and Redmi Note 10 if prefer something lighter.
Watch more reviews, but it has to be among these brands.

Thanks for the recommendation.

What is the specialty for Poco, Redmi, Mi series that are all under Xiaomi brand?

Mi series still try to compete with other brands in camera, design and other features you normally expect in a flagship. Poco is performance-oriented, so it is willing to compromise on other areas, most commonly the camera is impacted. You have dig deeper to find what other areas are impacted. Redmi is the low-budget line for Mi, but Poco also makes low-budget phones.

Samsung M32 if you are okay to pay the "Samsung tax", but that model won't get the water resistance like other Samsung phones.

What do you mean by Samsung tax?

Redmi Note 10 6gb. Been using it for many months gaming no issue. Poco X3 pro if they like even bigger phone.

nova 9

Poco X3 Pro is coming with discount in shopee 11.11.
Been using for 3 month. Good enough for me in camera, battery and gaming if compared to my old p20 pro.

Samsung overprice
Samsung bloatware

It's the additional price to pay when other brands can make phones with same spec and sell at lower price, charger included. To be honest, it isn't that obvious with this particular model when compared to the prices Samsung are charging for their flagships. On the M32 you are getting a combination of OLED with 90Hz, which you can't find on the other brands mentioned at this price. Take note that with OLED, comes Always-On Display too (except on iPhones). It's a big deal if their previous phone has Always-On and now they have to live without it. Not a big deal if they've been, let's say, using older iPhones that didn't have 90Hz nor Always-On Display.

They may or may not like One UI.

That said, if they are already used to 60Hz and LCD screens then just go for best performance. My previous phone had similar AnTuTu score (180k~220k) as these low-budget phones today and it was noticeably slow on some poorly optimized apps like Shopee.

A few more options with 5G support:
Poco M3 Pro 5G
Redmi Note 10 5G
Realme 8 5G

This post has been edited by BaboonZ: Nov 10 2021, 03:17 PM

Thanks for the info.

OLED with 90Hz is like a screen resolution, Always-On Display feature has the ability to display time, notification and etc when the phone is off while AnTuTu score is a score to know the performance of Android phones, particularly on RAM. Is my understanding correct?

I might buy Xiaomi 10. The AnTuTu score is 578056 based on Gsmarena info. Is it average or above average?
https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_10_5g-10082.php

OLED is a type of display technology. It consists of millions of tiny LEDs. Every individual pixel can show different colour or turn off completely for the deepest black possible. This translates to infinite contrast, colours that "pop" and minimal blooming. LCD has a few LEDs behind the liquid crystals as backlight, hence it will shine some light even on a totally black image. OLED completely turn off pixels to show true black hence Always-On Display (aka Ambient Display) is possible with this type of panel, whereas in IPS LCD you are still consuming the same amount of energy to show black. AOD is a productivity and convenience feature so you don't have to touch your phone to check for time and notifications. You don't have to temporary blind yourself by waking your phone's screen in the middle of the night to see if you have new messages. The lack of multiple layers behind OLED panels also make it easy to make flip/fold phones.

90Hz means that the display is refreshing at a rate of 90 frames per second. Usually beyond 120Hz it is unnoticeable to human eyes. Below 90Hz, it is quite clear that the screen will feel less smooth. To some people, low refresh rate can cause dizziness when looking at the phone for too long.

AnTuTu is a combined performance score for CPU, GPU and RAM.

Can you even get Mi 10 at your RM1000 budget? I feel bad to have convinced you to raise your budget like that. Budget phones are cheap because they are missing one or two key features so you have to understand and accept those drawbacks. Most people can accept them hence why these phones are selling so well. If you know exactly the specs of the phones your parents are using right now, it helps your decision on which features you can cut and which you can't. You can just target those features their existing phones already have and try to maintain or improve them.

This post has been edited by BaboonZ: Nov 11 2021, 02:00 PM

Can consider Poco F3 as well if you can add your budget a bit. This phone cuts very little corners.

Great explanation. I also learnt something new.

Mi 10 based on Lazada price is range between 544, 699, 749. Note 10 Pro is over 1k.

My father is using Sony Xperia Z3. It is old phone, I think more than 5 years if not mistaken.

This post has been edited by rocketm: Nov 11 2021, 05:19 PM

Seriously I don't think you can get Xiaomi Mi 10 at those prices. Those might be Xiaomi Redmi 10 instead.
These two phones are worlds apart in terms of specs and price. Make sure you are getting the correct one. Redmi 10 certainly doesn't have over 500k AnTuTu score.

https://www.kimovil.com/en/where-to-buy-xiaomi-mi-10
https://www.kimovil.com/en/where-to-buy-xiaomi-redmi-10

latest poco M4 5G

start from RM849 and highest spec is RM999

Then install gcam to take better photos 👌

Yes. Gcam provide much better picture than stock camera apps for poco phone.

Xiaomi 9 should be ok.