Now you have read my previous post Bill pay vs Prepay, you can now have a look what phones are available by calling into your store and asking your sales rep.
Now to most people what the sales assistant is saying to you is pretty much gibberish if you have no idea about phones. If i had 1euro for every time a person said to me "I have no idea about this stuff" I might not be rich but i'd be a whole lot better off.
So what do you need to look for in a good phone? If your reading this it means your pretty curious about what a decent phone should be and which one to choose so like i said in my previous blog you can not look at the cheapest phone.
phones are pretty personal so I can not guarantee that the points I will make will suit you, but they are definitely for the most common users of smart-phones. When your in store you will notice that there is information written below the handset to telling you a little bit about the handset.
First thing I look at is the internal memory, you will see it will say from anything like 8GB up to 64GB in some cases 128GB. What this is, is the memory to which the handset can hold information. Everything we do on a phone uses memory, from your contacts to your photos and the apps that we download. Apps and photos can take up a lot of memory so you will need a phone with a good internal memory. I would say for a user that takes a lot of photos and likes to use apps you will need at least 16GB of memory. Though the phone may be 16GB your not actually getting to use 16GB because this memory is also used on the applications and files that come installed on the phone. If you have a 16GB phone you may only get to use 12Gb.
Just a quick idea of how big that is. there is 1000 MB in 1 GB depending on the size of the photos which will be determined by the size of the camera, generally with a standard 8MP camera you will get 250 photos with 1GB so therefore a 16GB phone would get you 3000 photos.
you can expand the memory on a phone with an SD card to hold all your photos and music however do not let that be an easy way out because an SD card can not hold applications.
The issues that come with choosing a phone with low internal memory and then using that device for photos and applications and so on will then make your device slow down, this also causes your phone to freeze and can even switch off and on again. Imagine the handset like a train. Each time you use the phone, download applications or take photos you are adding cargo to that train which gets heavier as you add. eventually it becomes too heavy and slows down and inevitably it has to stop as it does not have the power to keep going.
Even if you are a minimal user of phones I would generally say 8GB minimum would be a nice start. you can get a handset with as low as 4GB these days. Those handsets I would use more for an emergency phone or back up or festival type phone.
Now I want to keep it simple so absorb that information and come back for my next blog soon!!
Any questions comment below and I will answer all that I can :)
See ya soon,
GG
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