Less than 10K Smartphone for a senior citizen's regular use

iPwnz

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Need a comfortable smartphone for an old person. It will not be his first smartphone. I wanted to go for the Moto G24/G34 but there is no Moto service where I live. And I don't know if there would be any good choice from Redmi/Realme etc.

Budget 10k max. +1-2k only if absolutely worth it.
 
Poco m6 pro 5g would be my recommendation. Snapdragon 4 gen 2 is the latest hardware, and pretty solid. You can get the 6/128 version in your budget
 
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A - series in Samsung is semi Premium

While selecting Mobile for Senior Citizens, do care to check, Weight and one hand operation, considering users age.
 
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Weight and size don't matter unless it's an exaggeration like tablet size 7.0"
What I need is minimal bloatware which have the risk of f'ing up the phone and good battery life.
greenhorn said:
Poco m6 pro 5g would be my recommendation. Snapdragon 4 gen 2 is the latest hardware, and pretty solid. You can get the 6/128 version in your budget
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Keeping the pricing aside, how is it when compared to Redmi 12 5G. I don't remember the exact models but many of these phones are just rebrand of each other with minimal change.
Better battery life and smoother UI/apps.would be preferred.
 
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iPwnz said:
Keeping the pricing aside, how is it when compared to Redmi 12 5G. I don't remember the exact models but many of these phones are just rebrand of each other with minimal change.
Better battery life and smoother UI/apps.would be preferred.
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My understanding is that they are the exact same. Have been told poco supposedly has less bloat but my experience there isn't much difference. Anyway you can use the debloater utility and disable a lot of the unwanted junk. But miui is still pretty bloated. Pricing is in my experience the only difference.

The battery is the same as on most other phones but it's a 4nm soc so that should help a bit with battery life.

I used to have a poco m3 running pixel experience. It had stunning battery life (used to run for a week with light usage and no bloat. Sadly stopped using it after teams decided to stop working as one fine day it was able to figure out that it was rooted.
 
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Emperor said:
A - series in Samsung is semi Premium

While selecting Mobile for Senior Citizens, do care to check, Weight and one hand operation, considering users age.
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I know it as only for "Camera" series. Most of their SoCs are basic.
 
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iPwnz said:
Budget 10k max. +1-2k only if absolutely worth it.
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I suggest that you go with the freshly launched Galaxy F15 (March 11, 2024). I recommend this because Samsung is advertising 4 years of OS version upgrades and 5 years of security updates. That means, the senior citizen gets updates till 2029. That's massive.

6/128 GB Variant is priced at 14,499 without card discounts. You may get upto 2500 discount (Not sure) in CC. 4 GB one is cheaper at 12,999 but considering the future updates, 6 GB would be better. Not that he/she would need beefy RAM config for basic tasks like WhatsApp, Browsing, video/audio etc. https://www.flipkart.com/samsung-galaxy-f15-5g-ash-black-128-gb/p/itm3886145398f59
 

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Thanks the F15 looks very good even though the price is on the higher side for this budget. I'll keep options opened. For now the best option seems to be the Poco M6 Pro 5G and used Redmi 12 5G.
 
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I would say cough up for the 256 g version. Have you seen the amount of junk senior citizens forward on WhatsApp. One on the things I hate the most is cleaning up whatsapp junk, and having more space means i don't need to do it as often
 
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greenhorn said:
I would say cough up for the 256 g version. Have you seen the amount of junk senior citizens forward on WhatsApp. One on the things I hate the most is cleaning up whatsapp junk, and having more space means i don't need to do it as often
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just set whatsapp message to auto clear in every 30 days, no more need to take care of WA junks
 
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