Cell phone advice

RheingoldRiver
2025-11-08T17:51:47Z

My current phone is about 6 years old and has a lot of signal problems and I replaced the battery about 6 months ago and the new battery is even worse than the original one was and I think it's time to get a new phone.

Things I want in my phone:

Android

I would love to have a microSD card but that seems impossible

if there's not microSD then I need min 512GB of internal storage and I would prefer 1TB if that's not like +1k to the cost

Headphone jack

If there's AI, then I can disable it

Excellent battery life

On the smaller end

Things I don't really care about:

Camera quality (I'm a shitty photographer, the camera wont help)

Things that might be nice:

Having a stylus but not at the cost of the phone being enormous. Reason I want this is because it gets cold in the winter in Chicago

I hope this phone lasts another 6 years and will be pissed if it lasts under 4 years; at that lifespan and amount of use I get out of it I'm pretty price-agnostic. I live in the USA but expect to travel to Europe a few times next year so it should do decently well when traveling. Network is T-Mobile.

This is not SUPER urgent right now so if your advice is "wait til January because the XYZ phone releasing then is probably better than anything available right now" I would be willing to do that. But my current phone is really not doing great.

Happy to answer any other followup questions if anyone has any!

Thanks!

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