Our lives have been transformed by phones in the last decade. They have become an essential part of our lives. We cannot live without them.
Thus choosing a phone is no trivial task.
Before you spend, what normally is a substantial amount of money, you need to decide which phone you will buy. There is no dearth of options. There are too many choices. This makes it more difficult.
To start with you need to choose which mobile universe you will belong to. I remember, a decade ago, there were many universes. Android was just starting. Nokia had championed Symbian. Blackberry was the choice of professionals. IPhone was exploding. Microsoft was jumping into the fray with it's own Windows line up.
When the dust settled, there were just two standing, Android and iOS.
Android backed by Google and iOS backed by Apple. Both giants.
So, before you even start to looking up the phones, you need to decide which Universe you shall join, Android or iOS.
If you choose iOS, then there's just one company that manufactures those phones and that's Apple. And you have to shell out a decent amount of money. Because these phones are expensive. There isn't much choice, but you do get good quality, better security and some status ( at least in India ) to go with it.
If you go for Android, then there are many options. There are cheap phones that won't cost more than 5k-6k rupees. There are mid range phones that range from 10k rupees to 50k rupees. And, there are high end, flagship phones that will make you poorer by more than 100k rupees.
Let's talk about attributes of a decent phone.
There is the issue of RAM and Internal Memory. A phone that won't make you cry while you wait for your favorite app to launch should have at least 4 GB of RAM today.
If you plan to document your life through photos and videos then you must go for nothing less than 128 GB of internal memory. The more the better in my opinion.
Talking of photos and videos, how can one forget the most essential part of any phone today. The Camera. Or should I say Cameras.
There are a whole of cameras in a single phone today. There is front camera. For when you want to take your own photo - popularly known as taking a selfie. Front camera should be good. The selfies should be great.
There is back camera. And sometime there are more than one of them. To make your photo quality even better.
Go for a phone that has at least 32 mega pixel camera. The photos and videos should be great, or else how would they trend on social media.
Wait, there's more. The battery.
What use a phone is if it's battery dies every 5 hours. A phone worth its salt should be able to survive at least 24 hours on a full charge. A good battery with more than 4000 mAH capacity will do.
Display and CPU are two other things that you may want to worry about. But in my opinion, they are more or less the same on all medium to high end phones.
The size of the phone also does matter. If you have small hands, it does become cumbersome to hold the bigger phones for an extended period of time.
Unfortunately, there are no phones with good specs and small screen size available in market right now.
Also the weight of the phone. Do checkout the weight of the phone while selecting. A heavy phone becomes annoying if you use it for a long time. A lighter phone is easy on your wrists.
Happy phone search.
Thus choosing a phone is no trivial task.
Before you spend, what normally is a substantial amount of money, you need to decide which phone you will buy. There is no dearth of options. There are too many choices. This makes it more difficult.
To start with you need to choose which mobile universe you will belong to. I remember, a decade ago, there were many universes. Android was just starting. Nokia had championed Symbian. Blackberry was the choice of professionals. IPhone was exploding. Microsoft was jumping into the fray with it's own Windows line up.
When the dust settled, there were just two standing, Android and iOS.
Android backed by Google and iOS backed by Apple. Both giants.
So, before you even start to looking up the phones, you need to decide which Universe you shall join, Android or iOS.
If you choose iOS, then there's just one company that manufactures those phones and that's Apple. And you have to shell out a decent amount of money. Because these phones are expensive. There isn't much choice, but you do get good quality, better security and some status ( at least in India ) to go with it.
If you go for Android, then there are many options. There are cheap phones that won't cost more than 5k-6k rupees. There are mid range phones that range from 10k rupees to 50k rupees. And, there are high end, flagship phones that will make you poorer by more than 100k rupees.
Let's talk about attributes of a decent phone.
There is the issue of RAM and Internal Memory. A phone that won't make you cry while you wait for your favorite app to launch should have at least 4 GB of RAM today.
If you plan to document your life through photos and videos then you must go for nothing less than 128 GB of internal memory. The more the better in my opinion.
Talking of photos and videos, how can one forget the most essential part of any phone today. The Camera. Or should I say Cameras.
There are a whole of cameras in a single phone today. There is front camera. For when you want to take your own photo - popularly known as taking a selfie. Front camera should be good. The selfies should be great.
There is back camera. And sometime there are more than one of them. To make your photo quality even better.
Go for a phone that has at least 32 mega pixel camera. The photos and videos should be great, or else how would they trend on social media.
Wait, there's more. The battery.
What use a phone is if it's battery dies every 5 hours. A phone worth its salt should be able to survive at least 24 hours on a full charge. A good battery with more than 4000 mAH capacity will do.
Display and CPU are two other things that you may want to worry about. But in my opinion, they are more or less the same on all medium to high end phones.
The size of the phone also does matter. If you have small hands, it does become cumbersome to hold the bigger phones for an extended period of time.
Unfortunately, there are no phones with good specs and small screen size available in market right now.
Also the weight of the phone. Do checkout the weight of the phone while selecting. A heavy phone becomes annoying if you use it for a long time. A lighter phone is easy on your wrists.
Happy phone search.
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