Nokia G42 vs Nokia G50

Macintosh veteran here. From the POV that one can spend 10x more on an iPhone, this G42 by Nokia is bafflingly good. It’s my first proper foray into Chrome OS and Android territory … a matter of personal research really aka interest in seeing what’s out there beyond my blinkered and expensive World of Mac. This Nokia is not a letdown (apart from the almost pathetic support period of 3 yrs security + only 2 yrs OS). Yes, the iPhone 15 is more solid, tough, 7+ years iOS support, etc. etc. etc. and it remains my #1 … BUT! I got this for a lot-lot less than an iPhone. It’s a jolly excellent machine for the price.

I have had no problems with it at all it is buttery smooth

I liked the look of Nokia g42 sounded great on paper. I thought Nokia was making a bit of a comeback. But it's been terrible. First of all the good. It looks great, the battery life it great and the best thing. I fully charged it once and have used it to set up the phone, install updates and a bunch of regular apps. It's been 2 days now and I'm on 42%. Thas good!. 2nd best is it's possible to open it up and replace parts like the battery yourself! I really like that. It should extend the life of the device. Now bad: It's light, the build quality is meh, it feels like the price. Which was £180. The galaxy a34 is literally £20 more on Amazon. And my mate let me look at their a34 and the difference is night and day, a34 has 100% better build quality. The big issues: the camera. So anything u see looks really low quality on screen, looks like it's yeaaarrrrs old. BUT after u take a picture it processes it and the end result is decent. Some actually look like it's 50mp. but this "processing" takes minimum 5 seconds and u cant do anything but wait....that's kind of unacceptable. 5+ seconds delay between every image. It's genuinely shocking. And not all pictures come out great. This is the biggest thing you should know if you're thinking of getting this phone. This issue extends to the face unlock too. The Face unlock uses camera to see face, but there is a big delay, I'd say 2 out of 5 times it can work at decent speed. But the rest, it's so slow (even in broad daylight) that u may aswell just type in the code. Other times the face unlock simply doesn't work. The camera is abysmal. Next; the ads, now and then, I'll open an app like chrome, and I'll get a little pop up on screen saying 'why not try this other app, you already have it installed blah blah' so I click it and it jus take me to play store to download an app I actually don't have installed like it says, in this instance it took me to download the duckduckgo app. The final big issue, is the delay. I currently have 3 phones while I'm trying to switch to a new one, my old android, an iPhone and this. All in same messaging groups, all in same room using same WiFi. This Nokia sometimes doesn't receive group messages until minutes after the other two devices. 2 final nails in coffin: The Google widget cant be removed at all and the emojis are surprisingly ugly, like really bad!