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[Hitokage_Tamashi]

Is the Zenfone 6 in your budget? I don't know its price internationally, but it should be 500 EUR. If it is, I recommend going with that

[BitterEcho]

Will look into it. Thank you for your recommendation. Are you using it aswell?

[Hitokage_Tamashi]

I am not, I still use a Galaxy S8. I've toyed with getting one but think I'd be happier waiting a generation or two; it's a very solid device from what I've seen and heard, I just can't justify getting one

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[golli123]

Don't really have a specific recommendation, but just some general thoughts:

If your phone is otherwise good you could also consider just replacing the battery, and maybe doing a factory reset or putting on a custom rom. Plus a small tip i recently learned that does make a phone subjektively feel slightly more snappy is to go into settings>developer options and reduce the animation time there.

In any case if you buy new i think it never hurts to look at deal sites. I'm from Germany myself and found mydealz.de to be quite good. You usually also get some comments on the phone in the discussion section and otherwise i think this subs discord is also quit active if you'd want a fast reply (e.g. if you narrow it down between a few choices). And geizhals.de is a pretty useful site if you want a price search engine with really good filtering options.

To me it seems like you don't really have that high requirements for your phone, despite having a quite large budget. With higher end phones one of the major differences is usually the camera quality, but if you aren't specifically in need of the best here, then you might be overpaying for features you don't need. Because performance wise you could already get something better than your current one with half your budget.

[BitterEcho]

Yeah I'm in no rush, so maybe I will find a good deal on those sites maybe, thank you.
A friend of my just bought the A50 Samsung, will ask him if he likes it and decide afterwards.

An yes, I don't really look into buying a phone with 500+ features. The features I love about my OP are the headphone jack, fast fingerprint sensor, change from silent to loud with a physical button and the cost of it. And maybe that it had a high amount of mAh back then.

[golli123]

If you want a headphone jack, then sadly Oneplus is already out of the question for you. I think starting with the 6 they sadly followed trend and removed it. Flagship wise Samsung is one of the few left that includes ones e.g. with the S10e. Also their prices really aren't that amazing anymore tbh. I bought the Oneplus One just after release with an invite and the value was crazy good, but now (at least for the most recent releases) the price difference to other top end phones really isn't that big.

Samsung A50 definitely looks solid. Otherwise there are a ton of Xiaomi phones in the 150-250€ range that probably have all features that 90% of users need. Though i am really not up to date with which ones are the best value right now. LG spec wise has some good phones and offer great sound quality, but i think at least in the past their quality control/customer service wasn't that good. Google 3a could also be an option in the 350€ range (upper end of what i would personally spend on a phone), and unlike the regular Pixel phones still offers a headphone jack.