Weekend Open Forum: When buying a new smartphone, what do you value most?
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Sum Guy
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If I could design my own phone with what I little know:
Super thick Gorilla glass screen recessed into the bezel just a touch for protection. The bezel should be made of rubber and wrap the glass a few millimeters.
Ultra stiff body.
4.5" to 5.5" 1080p screen.
Volume key offset from the power key.
Replaceable battery. Not a sealed in one.
8 core 2.0 Ghz processor or better.
Decent camera.
4 gb ram
32gb or better hard drive
All the basic features every other phone has.
Headphone jack. Decent sound card. The newer phones sound quality sucks.
Power and headphone jack have screw in seals.
Phone should be watertight.
Temperature sensor, and barometric altimeter, but we know that won't ever happen.
My biggest issues with phones are the fastest ones are too big for my pocket. Even those are too slow, once you get all your apps loaded Second issue is the glass always breaks way too easy. The other is the volume key is always across from the power key and causes me to accidentally hang up on people all the time.
These are most of the physical things I would like to see addressed. I dont care if the phone weighs bit more or is a few millimeters thicker. I just want one that won't break so easy.
Super thick Gorilla glass screen recessed into the bezel just a touch for protection. The bezel should be made of rubber and wrap the glass a few millimeters.
Ultra stiff body.
4.5" to 5.5" 1080p screen.
Volume key offset from the power key.
Replaceable battery. Not a sealed in one.
8 core 2.0 Ghz processor or better.
Decent camera.
4 gb ram
32gb or better hard drive
All the basic features every other phone has.
Headphone jack. Decent sound card. The newer phones sound quality sucks.
Power and headphone jack have screw in seals.
Phone should be watertight.
Temperature sensor, and barometric altimeter, but we know that won't ever happen.
My biggest issues with phones are the fastest ones are too big for my pocket. Even those are too slow, once you get all your apps loaded Second issue is the glass always breaks way too easy. The other is the volume key is always across from the power key and causes me to accidentally hang up on people all the time.
These are most of the physical things I would like to see addressed. I dont care if the phone weighs bit more or is a few millimeters thicker. I just want one that won't break so easy.
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lazer
Posts: 484 +151
First and foremost is SOUND QUALITY. I am a hearing impaired person and need clear sound.
Second is cost, then battery, then speed, then camera.
For those reviewers who do not know that there is such a thing as sound quality, I urge them to check out http://www.gsmarena.com/. Their rating system helped me select a high sound quality yet low price LG G3 which I am very happy with.
Second is cost, then battery, then speed, then camera.
For those reviewers who do not know that there is such a thing as sound quality, I urge them to check out http://www.gsmarena.com/. Their rating system helped me select a high sound quality yet low price LG G3 which I am very happy with.
TechHeadKeta
Posts: 21 +2
The most important is a good battery. A iPhone type battery is not my thing. Camera is okay important, I'd like to take a few pictures, but I don't expect to be a photographer.
A good quality phone that can deal a little damage. I know princesses ain't badasses, but a little roughness is accepted. Screen size shall be "5 or max "5.5.
Price... idc. I pay, what I can pay or wait. Simple.
A good quality phone that can deal a little damage. I know princesses ain't badasses, but a little roughness is accepted. Screen size shall be "5 or max "5.5.
Price... idc. I pay, what I can pay or wait. Simple.
A removable battery
I'd love to have a 5.8-6.1 inch screen
Stability. Don't blow up when it 90 degrees out.
Make purchases via tap with a quality password without a fingerprint
A removable battery
A removable battery
A removable battery
I'd love to have a 5.8-6.1 inch screen
Stability. Don't blow up when it 90 degrees out.
Make purchases via tap with a quality password without a fingerprint
A removable battery
A removable battery
A removable battery
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Camera is first, then battery life, then microSD card and fast processor. 1080P is fine (though no complaints about my LG G4s higher res screen, just doesn't make a difference) and I greatly prefer a removable battery. Less because of hard resets or switching the batteries out to last longer (I have chargers everywhere) but more because the battery is often the first thing to give out and I'd like to be able to order a new one when the old starts giving out earlier than it did new.
Sum Guy
Posts: 64 +16
Not like anyone who is gonna help any of this become true is reading what we post. Here is to hoping.
I am so tired of having a giant phone because the small one is so slow. Now a new issue has arrived. Sound quality on the newer phones is going down hill. So thin if you sit wrong it flexes and cracks the screen. I hate everything about the new phones out today.
I am so tired of having a giant phone because the small one is so slow. Now a new issue has arrived. Sound quality on the newer phones is going down hill. So thin if you sit wrong it flexes and cracks the screen. I hate everything about the new phones out today.
This is exactly why it's so hard for manufacturers to hit everything every time.
You clearly are looking for a smaller phone where I am clearly looking for a bigger one.
This rundown displays why no one is ever going to be totally satisfied with somebody else's product.
The market is saturated to the point right now we can ALL get MOST of what we want somewhere!
That's a good thing.
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