Flashback: the Snapdragon 625 efficiently conquered the mid-field in 2016
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you have to suffer, 31 Jan 2023695 exists to scam uninformed customers with glossy looking... moreI absolutely agree. The 695 is absolute garbage. What makes me hate it even more is that companies like Xiaomi who used to make INSANE value phones replaced the SD 778G with this steaming pile of garbage and made me resort to Samsung (the Exynos 1280 is about equal, but has mmWave and much better GPU and 4K video recording) and also the overall specs are better for my use. Samsung is also guilty of the same cutting of the 778g. Even the 690G is better overall. Miss the times before companies started slacking. Phones were so cool in 2021 and earlier.
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- 31 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 24 Jan 2023695 is barely any better than 765g, which says a lot about ... morethe ISP on 695 is trash
comparable to helio p95. just sayin'
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- 31 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 23 Jan 2023695 should have been 490. Not really true successor of 690.... more695 exists to scam uninformed customers with glossy looking overpriced phones.
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- 27 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 24 Jan 2023Go for 778g my friend. It only cost a bit more but much bet... moreMine was $300 and I also got 8GB RAM, 256GB internal storage, 3.5mm jack, and MicroSD expansion with a free 256GB MicroSD card included, and I live in the US. A 778G phone would probably cost at least $400 and come without half the mentioned features. Same reason why I didn't go with the Pixel 6a for $300 (which also has a terrible modem which is a no-go for me)
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- wrg
- 26 Jan 2023
YUKI93, 24 Jan 2023Exactly. They want you to buy their cloud storage and wirel... moresony realized that removing 3.5mm jack is a bad move.
might be finding myself a sony phone cheap. dont care if its IMEI blocked or carrier locked, i'd use them as my next secondary phone.
their xperia phone fits to my needs though.
flagship spec, flagship camera, 3.5mm jack and expandable storage.
only concerning is the battery life. theyre usually short if used conditions.
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- 24 Jan 2023
MontyTech, 24 Jan 2023All Sony Flagships Motorola G100 and Motorola Edge S Asus... moreIf you can go with Snapdragon 855/855+, the choice is even wider. I'm still impressed with 855 performance from my LG V50.
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- 24 Jan 2023
you have to suffer, 24 Jan 2023since the craze of cloud storage, wireless cheapbuds... it... moreExactly. They want you to buy their cloud storage and wireless earbuds, so they remove the microSD card support and the headphone jack. They are basically making solutions to a problem that doesn't exist in the first place. That is why I applaud Sony for bringing the headphone jack back on their flagship phones in 2020 after removing it for two years on their 2018 and 2019 flagships.
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- 24 Jan 2023
Eudaemon., 24 Jan 2023It's crazy how difficult it has become to find a phone... moreAll Sony Flagships
Motorola G100 and Motorola Edge S
Asus Zenfone 6 and 7
LG V60 ThinQ 5G
All Huawei Flagships which use Nano sd card
ZTE Axon 30S, ZTE Axon 30
Some of these are older flagships. But personally. All of them come with Snapdragon 865, 870, 888. Which are more than enough for any user out there.
Sadly. The Flagship quality with the Scamfest of Cloud services is increasing
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- 24 Jan 2023
Eudaemon., 24 Jan 2023It's crazy how difficult it has become to find a phone... moresince the craze of cloud storage, wireless cheapbuds...
it changed the entire mobile market. android manufacturers' CEO probably used iphone so they could have think that decision of removing basic things.
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- 24 Jan 2023
It's crazy how difficult it has become to find a phone with clean bloatfree ad-free software, a headphone jack, an SD expansion slot, a capable processor with decent cameras and dependable battery life... While in the era of the Snapdragon 625 such phones were almost everywhere.
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- 24 Jan 2023
695 is barely any better than 765g, which says a lot about "progress" made in last few years. The midrange segment has seen almost no improvement in power and efficiency since 2020, except for the 778g. One main reason is existence of 695. Devices that could get 778g have been given 695 due to penny pinching. Some OEMs even downgraded the chip and cameras successive devices. They've gotten too greedy and need some beatings and boycotts by consumers to put them back to where they belong.
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- 24 Jan 2023
SuperSpruce, 23 Jan 2023I care way more about price/performance than if it can reco... moreGo for 778g my friend. It only cost a bit more but much better. Some 695 phone are actually more expensive than 778g ones
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- 24 Jan 2023
YUKI93, 23 Jan 2023Why give such crazy power when most people only going to do... moreThen we can also ask why bother giving them "such crazy" power for those tasks, 400/4 is more than enough for what you mentioned.
I think people who buy midrange rather than entry level expect something that's decent, makes a difference and last without having to spend on flagship. Anything lower than 778g are unfit for those expectations given the price. Look at Xperia 10 IV for example, it's not cheap yet is underpowered due to 695g. It's buyer will feel regret when looking at cheaper A52s that uses 778g. If the 600 series never existed, that phone, alongside likes of Nord CE series and others would be forced to use 778g. and we as consumers see a realistic benefit. This is doable by OEMs but they're too greedy.
695 is the worse of the bunch. These greedy OEMs have gotten an excuse to avoid using 778g.
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- 23 Jan 2023
YUKI93, 23 Jan 2023Why give such crazy power when most people only going to do... moreThe only reason I used to buy the Snapdragon 8 series & now buy the latest Dimensity is because the modem.
Qualcomm have the habit of using less good modem on the 7 series and 6 series. Whereas in Dimensity, newer model all using the same latest release modem.
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- 23 Jan 2023
SuperSpruce, 23 Jan 2023Weird, I have a phone with SD695 (Moto G Stylus 5G 2022) an... moredo you have duration limit like old samsung flagship phones?
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- 23 Jan 2023
Anonymous, 23 Jan 2023Why does 600 series even exist? It should go from 400 to 70... moreWhy give such crazy power when most people only going to do web and social media browsing? For such activity, Snapdragon 600 is more than enough.
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- 23 Jan 2023
MRSTEK, 22 Jan 2023Interestingly, 765G has a peak GPU performance of 480 GFLOP... moreWell, that means 765g was made by Samsung. So was 835 and 845. Yes, the venerable Pocophone F1 had a Samsung chip.
Today though, we have Scamsung.
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- 23 Jan 2023
Why does 600 series even exist? It should go from 400 to 700 to 800. All midrange phones must at least have 778g.
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- 23 Jan 2023
Lenovo P2 was the best-performing Snapdragon 625 smartphone regarding battery endurance rating. 149 hours for it is absolutely impressive.
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- 23 Jan 2023
Unb1453d, 23 Jan 2023695, say hello the 625. And the 4k recording. 695 should have been 490. Not really true successor of 690.
No surprise 4g1 and 695 are 99,9% alike.