The only fucking Chinese phone I hated is Asus Padfone. Fucking screen just refused to register any touches after a year or two. Been through Mi3, Redmi Note 3, realme 6, realme gt neo 3 and all working for years without much problem. Maybe update wise is slightly lacking with sub RM1000 model.

If OnePlus or Nothing, no problems except when battery already half dead.

I found big brands durability is better even both using corning gorilla glass. Which is weird. China phone has alot of gimmick things like face beautification that overly done. The spec we get on the list seems better but the one not on the list always have cut cost. For example the speaker was never on par with samsung, they exclude hardware mhl that project screen using usb, their usb port is cheap sound driver bad and do not support many network bands.

I think reliability is not an issue. I have a Xiaomi Note10. Screen koyak about 2 years ago, order a screen replacement from China via Shopee. Very good quality, really as good as Ori. I fixed it myself. Till today still working and I pass it to my kid to use. 4 yrs at least.

This post has been edited by CommodoreAmiga: Feb 22 2024, 08:21 AM

Did you buy an extended warranty or is the standard warranty 2 years.

I think Honor and BBK (Oppo/Vivo/OP....) brands are good. Xiaomi can be iffy because of lemon models and are generally ok if you know how to debloat and tune settings and keep an eye on things, a slightly higher failure rate overall.

Xiaomi had a bad time when displays had ghost touch/input lag problems, I think during the time of Pocophone F1. Updates didn't completely fix things. Software wise Xiaomi is also behind Honor/BBK, their updates break things more often but it cheaper so can be worth the hassle.

This post has been edited by atilla: Jul 16 2025, 09:01 PM

Just the standard 2-year warranty.

This post has been edited by sHawTY: Jul 17 2025, 09:28 AM