Best Android Phone For $100 On Amazon

[PcFan90]

so i live in nz and phones are so expensive here in the last 3/4 years
i won a giftcard to amazon about a week ago and have some free amazon credit so i have like $100 to spend after tax and shipping cost
because tax and shipping is so high i never buy from amazon but since this is free credit and giftcard i thought i would get a phone

i already have a phone so just wanted to get another one to use it like a tablet pc  also table pc in this price range will have lager screens but worse specs
so im not worried if phone is locked to a network and i can't use it in New Zealand

since i will be using amazon free credit the phone has to be sold and shipped by amazon

what would be the best phone i could get?

 

[E-waste]

Look for a device that supports either LineageOS, which will need an unlocked bootloader, or has ample bootloader unlock support on the website:

https://xda-developers.com

 

This will ensure you can upgrade the android software to use recent programs, or switch out the pre-installed software and put KDE plasma with opensuse Linux o. the device and learn the world's most widely used operating system.

 

For android, my signature (below any of my posts) details some android firewall / domain (website) name service or DNS tools to protect your privacy and prevent tracking and needless network connections.

 

For web browsers, Firefox is open-source.  The main software removed "about:config" so use Fennec instead, same software, same developers, just has about:config re-enabled.  I encourage you to use Firefox instead of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, or Vivaldi, as all of them have one thing in common:

 

Those browsers are all just using Google's so-called open-source Chromium browser.  If we can see all the code, what's the issue?  It further pushes Google's dominance of website development, similar to how Microsoft's IE6 was the standard for almost a decade.  Now some website's recommend using Google Chrome to be viewed properly.

 

Firefox supports open web standards, and online-privacy, which Google's business model is in stark contrast, at minimum, the privacy side.  Firefox is a great browser to support but has less thab 7% on desktop, and less than 0.5% on mobile platforms.

Why might you want to use a different system on a touch-screen device?  To open the software possibilities, or learn more about computer systems.

 

Never heard of Linux, or think it's too complicated?  Windows Server is so terrible that Microsoft used Linux servers in 2003 and later to host some of their websites and email servers.  Microsoft hosts mostly (over 50%l Linux systems (the software being used by users or developers) on their Azure cloud.  Microsoft even develops their own Linux distribution called CBL-Mariner.  Linux powers over 66% of all online web servers and websites.  This includes Android, Amazon, Cloudflare, Hulu, Netflix, NIH, NOAA, NASA, Steam (game software), and many more I would like to mention but am unaware of.

 

Linux is used by major film studios like Dreamworks and Marvel, and if I actually researched this more, I could add many more examples.  Linux allows connecting computers together to accomplish tasks that would take too long on a single pc.

Lastly, Steam is on Linux which integrates Wine, which allows much easier compatibility for previously Windows-only games to be played on Linux.  This increases system security, somewhat reduce memory requirements with very light and basic "window managers" such as WindowMaker, allowing me to play new games while still only having a single 2GB stick of memory.  I have another stick, but it is stored elsewhere, and so I can just run a lighter graphical interface vs KDE and play games just fine.

 

I encourage you to learn about Linux, as that is the system the makes Android possible.  iOS and Mac OS is using UNIX, or some form of Berkeley Software Distribution, BSD, which Linux is directly related to.  UNIX used to be proprietary, and significantly expensive decades ago, with a UNIX system costing over $50,000 USD, many years ago.

 

I encourage you to learn about device repairability, right-to-repair, open-source, and Linux.  If you want tp get started using Linux, I recommend, because of the beautiful wallpapers of nature:

 

Linux Mint.  I recommend either the Cinnamon desktop, or if you have less than 2GB of system memory (and want to play games of recent time) use the much lighter XFCE desktop for just basic menus and interface.  Window Maker can be installed later on any system and using the "configure" option in its menu, scrolling to the right, and clicking the light blue button which is for editing the theme, you can do quite a lot using a custom amount of color gradients for the user interface.

 

I hope all of this is at least read by someone on the forum that is not already aware or knowledgable in these topics and seeks to dive into the world of open-source that runs so much of our world.

[mathildeleah29225]

You can refer to some Samsung phone lines, I find this phone company to be very affordable

[E-waste]

Sony smartphones and tablets can all have the bootloader unlocked with Sony's instructions on their developers page.  And their phones have sd card slots and headphone jacks!  The DAC is high quality, much more so than other devices, and the camera will be quite good as well.

 

Even 2017/2018 models like the Sony Xperia Z can have the bootloader unlocked, so you can upgrade the software with LineageOS and get most security patches, which is from Google's Android Open-Source Project source.

 

https://lineageOS.org/ will list all devices they currently support.