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A thread on 5ch’s “Live Anything G” board (a general live-commentary board where users post in real time about whatever’s in the news) kicked off over how to pick an Android phone. It started with a post claiming “the only decent Android is Galaxy,” with posters recommending the Fold8 and the mid-range Galaxy A57, while Xperia kept taking hits over camera quality and Pixel got dragged for its past battery-fire issues and weak sales overseas. The conversation eventually spilled into iPhone-vs-Android territory too, splitting the room over OS usability and value for money.
What people said
Xperia's blown-out highlights are brutal though…
it's terrible with night shots and backlighting.
Xperia's camera comes in dead last
every single time in flagship camera comparisons.
It's been the clear worst for like 10 years straight,
it's basically trash at this point.
I'm on a Pixel right now.
Galaxy, obviously.
Get the Fold8.
I hear the Galaxy A57 is pretty solid.
M-m-m…
MID-RANGE lmaooooooo
it's the MIDDLE and yet the END lmaoooooo
Pixel's just expensive for nothing these days.
Plus the 6a caught fire.
It's only ever sold in Japan anyway.
Not talking spec sheets, I mean the fine details of the UI.
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Nobody anywhere in the world can pull that off.
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Japanese companies can't build software.
They're great at hardware though.
I'm curious about the Fold, but for that price
wouldn't the S series make more sense?
I get that the big multi-panel display drives up cost,
but the rest of the specs just don't justify the price.
Foldables have brutal repair costs.
Well, it's only a dual-lens setup.
But dual-lens is the norm now anyway —
saw an article somewhere saying only about 20% of people
actually use the telephoto lens properly.
Not bad as a mid-ranger.
Oppo's really faded into the background lately.
I went from an SE3 to a 17e as my secondary phone,
but iOS is honestly too garbage to live with.
You'd have to really want to throw away 100,000 yen
[~$700] to buy an 🍎 in the first place.
Might as well buy a toy you can't even use.
Re: #58
That's just you not knowing how to use it.
Opposite, actually — I don't game at all.
Isn't the gaming crowd exactly the pickiest about this stuff?
A bit pricey for its specs, though.
"Pricey for its specs" — so zero selling points, lol.
It's good for a "mid-ranger" lol, right?
Feels like a lot of people who'd be perfectly happy with this
end up buying an iPhone instead.
For people who don't game, Pixel is basically a better iPhone.
That's why the iPhone crowd has been piling on Pixel so hard lately.
Pixel's garbage that doesn't even sell worldwide.
How is that "better" anything?
Have you actually used a Pixel?
It's so heavy I'd never touch one again.
Sure, it's got problems elsewhere,
but it gets way more hate than it deserves.
You say "great for music," but in the era of wireless earbuds,
it doesn't matter how good Xperia's own hardware is.
And if you're streaming on Spotify or whatever,
the source audio is the real bottleneck anyway.
Bottom line, Xperia's just for audio nerds now.
It's so expensive I honestly can't decide what to get next.
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In the US it's not just resale value — there are actual discounts,
so it ends up cheaper than in Japan.
By the way, plenty of people in the US call out
the iPhone's weak performance too, lol.
Performance hasn't really been weak since around the iPhone 13.
The price, though…
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The Pixel 6a battery-fire issue raised in the thread isn’t just idle mudslinging — it’s a documented problem that Google addressed in 2024 with an actual battery replacement/warranty program. Xperia, meanwhile, takes a beating over camera quality in the thread, but it still has a loyal following for its music and video playback, making it a phone whose reputation really hinges on how you use it. The thread’s tension boils down to two recurring fault lines — “performance vs. usability” and “built for Japan vs. built for the world” — so there’s no simple ranking that settles it. The device signatures visible in some posts, left by 2chMate (a popular third-party 5ch browser that auto-tags posts with the poster’s phone model), suggest actual Galaxy and Xperia owners were weighing in themselves, not just spectators.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (“Live Anything G” board) thread “[Sad News] Decent Android Phones Have Finally Narrowed Down to Just Galaxy.”
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