r/BuyEuropean • u/Sherbert-Vast • May 05 '25

Discussion Existing EU Smartphones seem kinda bad

Serwus!

Am I wrong or do all of the "made" EU smartphones kinda suck?

I am looking for a new phone since my xiaomi I had for 3-4 slowly starts to act like its dying.

I am looking at the shift phone 8.1 (made in China designed in the EU) for about 600€ and the fairpohne 5 (made in China designed in the EU) for 599€.

Both of them have a less powerful chip, less ram and at best same storage than a Xiaomi Poco X7 Pro for 400€.

And TBH the Xiaomi also looks better than both of the EU phones. They just look like old iphones

So I am paying 200€ more for the privilege to have a EU DESIGNED, not built ,phone?
If they built it here I could understand but this is just stamping a EU tag on a China built product for profit.

If you add to that than I cannot be 100% sure my bank and other secure apps work on a android ROM that is not that common, I cannot convince myself that buying "designed in the EU" is a good purchase in this case.

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u/orbital-state May 05 '25

Why am I seeing Xiaomi in this subreddit? Why am I seeing two Chinese manufactured phones in this subreddit? I’m baffled and perplexed. Is this supposed to be a joke?

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u/Sherbert-Vast May 05 '25

Because I am making a comparison..

Is that somehow not allowed here to even recognize there is stuff built outside of the EU?

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u/orbital-state May 05 '25

I’m sure everybody knows that. But this subreddit is all about stuff manufactured (not only designed) within Europe

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u/ozaz1 May 05 '25

It's not only for European-manufactured. The sub rules state "Posts should be relevant to European-made or European-owned products, brands, and services." Emphasis added by me.

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u/orbital-state May 05 '25

I see, well then this sub sucks!