[deanhills]

Yea wish I could try the 5G, the speed blows! Does South Africa not have the 5G towers yet? I hope you get to try it soon! Pixel is a good phone non the less if I was not using Apple I would go use Pixel but their privacy is still wonky with Google.

South Africa does indeed have the 5g towers.  There's a premium of course on phones with this add on, but yes, it's available as every where else. South Africa just doesn't have the same selection and offerings of phones in overall as in the US and elsewhere.  There is a strong support for Huawei and other high quality brands from China, also Samsung and Apple and Nokia.  But Google for some or other reason doesn't want to sell its Google Pixel 4A in Africa. Good with spying on every one, but not selling its phone in Africa.  

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@xdude  I checked out OPPO and after some research into the A53 that is heavily marketed in South Africa, looks like it's a cheap phone made to look expensive.  I found this article on the aggressive marketing of OPPO.  It's just a bit cheaper than medium range budget to "under" price them.  So in the review of the A53 it pointed out for just a few more bucks one can get much better.

Here is the article on OPPO's aggressive marketing of its phones:
https://youthistaan.com/why-dont-we-reco...martphone/

And here's the review of its A53 phone:
https://www.techradar.com/reviews/oppo-a53

I'm now currently looking at Huawei P40 Lite - although maybe "just looking" as it's a bit pricey for me - but good value though:
https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_p40_lite...w-2084.php

What would be an interesting factor for me for the Huawei P40 is how to work with a phone that doesn't have Google Play Store on it.  May be challenging/interesting to download and update the apps that I'm used to.  Lots of support in South Africa, as Huawei has a strong foot in the South African mobile phone market, for a number of years now. I remember when it started in South Africa many years ago, it was a "plastic phone" made in China. How things have changed! It's now regarded a quality brand name, not quite up to Samsung yet, but very popular and highly rated by the SIM contract companies.