Recent content by Milind R

And for the price of an external battery charger, the plus point is complete freedom of my phone from charging cords! I pretty much never plug in the phone. One more point: power-bank-advocates say that they can use the power bank for ALL micro-USB devices, while the spare battery only serves...

When my GNex died, the V20 wasn't out yet, so I bought an Asus Zenfone 2 Selfie (ZD551KL) with 3GB RAM and 16 GB storage for the following reasons (from an earlier post): Removable battery pack Micro SD card slot >300ppi screen Official support to unlock bootloader Official external battery...

Just wanted to chime in : Indian here. The V20 costs much less than my monthly pay (more than half though). Like most of you here, I'm not ok with upgrading every 2 years.

So there turned out to be an additional requirement that I realised later I hadn't spelled out : availability of external spare battery charger in India. With this my list narrowed down to the Zenfone Selfie and the Galaxy S4. Since the S4 is quite old, I went ahead and ordered the Zenfone...

OK an update, sort of : Asus Zenfone 2 Laser and Selfie tick 1-3, but the versions available in India are 5.5" in size. Most Samsung and Lenovo phones seem to have unlockable bootloaders these days, by the look of it (i.e. "fastboot oem unlock" works). Will update when I decide and place the...

Shucks. Maybe I can find one that can be rooted at least. HTC phones all seem to have expandable storage and unlockable bootloaders, but does any have a removable battery? And everyone seems to have a problem making a high-PPI <5" phone...

Hi all, So my old GNexus died, and am now looking for a new phone for the next several years, if I'm lucky. Broadly, I am looking for a post-2014 smartphone with the following features : 1. Removable battery 2. Expandable memory 3. Unlockable bootloader 4. <5.5-inch screen and 1080p...