Buying Guide : Smart Phones....
https://gadgetsfreeak.blogspot.com/2013/02/smartphones-buying-guide.html
Once you have decided to get rid off your old cell phone
it’s not easy decide to buy which one, when you step in to store or just search
the web, you will be bombarded with features some are easy to understand,
usable whereas some are marketing gimmicks, so today we will understand what
all features are to be looked upon when you a buy a smart phone.
Platform (iOS/ Android /
Windows):-
Gone are the days when you had choice of only Symbian OS
which was primarily used by all Nokia phones, today user has many choice,
whether to go for Apple’s iOS, or Android or Windows.
It’s important to understand which platform offers what so
as to decide, which platform to chose.
Apple’s iOS, this is the operating system from apple,
and is used in iPhone, iPad, it has beautiful user interface and there are
great applications in iOS platform. Advantage with iOS is if you own I Pad,
Iphone or Ipod user interface is seamless and you don’t need to learn new OS
each time.
Advantages:-
Large Applications selection
Easy to use
Disadvantages:-
Customization is less compared to other OS platform
Mostly Paid applications
Android, Android is the most widely used OS platform
now a days, it’s powered by google services, it works well with all Google
applications such as G Mail, Maps, Navigation.
The power in the android is about customization, you can
customize everything on your smart phone with many widgets.
Advantages:-
Very high degree of customization
Disadvantage:-
User experience varies from device to device as all
different manufactures support android.
Windows OS: - Windows mobile powered by Microsoft,
has very unique experience on home screen, which has “Live Tiles” which gets
updated with relevant information.
Application selection is not so great, but logic is quite
simple, that you can find the stuff you are looking in very fewer steps.
Advantages:-
Integrated applications are more, like xbox, office, etc.
Disadvantage:-
Smaller application catalogue
I hope with this you will be able to select platform whether
you want to go for , iOS, Android or Windows, here budget will also play role,
next is the screen size & type.
Screen Size & Type:-
Now a days, phone screen sizes vary from 3.5 inch to 5.5
inch in some cases, most of the brands restrict them self up to 5 inch only.
Unlike television, bigger is not better, because if you go
for large screen phone it becomes difficult in holding in hand and talking. So
Gadgets Freak doesn’t recommend screen size more than 5 inch in any case.
Also ensure that the phone you buy
must have capacitive touch screen with pinch to zoom to enhance touch screen
experience.
Check the screen resolution as
well, higher resolution means better picture on screen, some cheap phone will
be very similar to high end phones but they will have low resolution and low
battery backup.
Now there are many marketing gimmicks to confuse you like
AMOLED, IPS, TFT screens, these are different type of LCD screens. Goodness of
screen is as follows,
TFT < IPS < AMOLED
You can see that IPS screen will produce better colors and
graphics than TFT, and AMOLED being the best display you can chose for your
smart phone but obviously you need to mint more money so chose wisely!
Now a days if you don't know which phone to buy, simple check for the pixels per inch, popularly known as PPI, higher the PPI better the result!
Camera Mega Pixels:-
There is general assumption that higher the mega pixel of
camera, better is the quality, so many handset maker market their phones
accordingly. But it is not the fact after certain mega pixel, the difference in
the image quality will not be much because capturing image also depends upon
other factors like software written for camera, how the image is processed, its
like symphony orchestra if everybody plays well then you love it but if it only
guitarist playing well and other’s not in tune then it’s noisy.
So only mega pixel doesn’t impact much, but recommended mega
pixel size is 5MP to have better pictures.
Processing Power (the dual
core & the quad core!!):-
It’s normal to assume that a processor of 1.2Ghz will
process better than a processor of 1 Ghz, this is correct up to some extent but
supporting RAM and how well the application is written also impacts
performance.
Now coming the dual core & quad core myth, normal
processor does all the task alone, now if my smart phone has to do 4 task I
will assign each task to each core of processor, so obviously the task will be
completed faster and in less time so it will consume less energy (battery),
this is the theory of quad core or dual core processor.
But problem here is, are all the applications, software
written accordingly to take the advantage of all the cores or processing? the answer is NO, because it requires more
efforts and it’s harder to write such programs so whether you have a single
core, dual core or quad core, most of the applications will run similarly.
Yes you will see some improved performance in OEM program
such as HTC’s own widgets, because they will develop SW accordingly because
they have to sell their handset as a higher processing power, but not all
developer write programs because it’s difficult as still technology is
evolving.
RAM:-
Yes higher the RAM, better is efficiency so better go for a smart
phone with higher RAM such a 1GB, or so.
Storage:-
Better to have 2Gb internal memory at least whether you go
for any OS platform. But say if you are stuck with an android phone then check
out Gadgets Freak's guide to increase internal storage here.
Better to have a battery with higher mah, which is mili
ampere per hour. So always check out & compare in between the phones you
like as higher mah means higher battery back up.
At Gadgets Freak, it’s always out endeavor to empower
customers with knowledge so that consumers can actually know what they are
buying. We hope this guide would be useful.
In case you are confused between any phones, please comment, our experts will be Happy to Help!
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