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WHICH PHONE SHOULD I BUY ??? ///Tribute to Mobile Phones
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The world of smartphones started off in the mid 2000's with the Blackberries causing furor among business people. Then the iPhone took them to the global stage in 2007 and by 2008 the competition with android was already fierce.
By 2009 pretty much every young person in the UK had one and by 2010 we can confidently say the smartphone era was well on.
It's been 5 years and now from then and 8 years since the iPhone made an appearance and there's an entire generation that has come of age within the era ofSsmarthphones and know nothing of what the world was like before.
I have to admit I didn't jump into the smartphone era until 2011 and I stuck to my trusty old Sony-Ericcsson which was the first mobile phone I got when I moved into the uk back in fall 2007 and I still use it as a back-up/holiday phone.
I had my first mobile phone in the year 2000, when I was "only" 15 years old (yes, I managed to spend my entire childhood and puberty without any mobile device). Interestingly that's the only other old-style mobile phone I ever owned aside from the Sony Ericsson. Yes, I had it for 7 long years, and then my grandmother inherited, and she kept it for another 8 years!! So...you probably know by know what phone I am talking about
Spoiler!
Now it's finally gone into a box, since I bought her a smartphone by a UK brand for £47 so she can whatsapp-call me as much as she wants
This is the little baby
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2520687455...754&rmvSB=true
£47 for something that fits in the palms of my granny and is propably more potent than my first desktop PC (an HP pavillion running an AMD Athlon and an Nvidia Gefore 2 I got when I moved regions with my family back in September 2001)
About the Kazam; it's nothing to be amazed compared to what you see around this days, but at 47 yu can't fault it. I actually tried it for a few days asI am looking to replace my trusty-old but now faulty Samsung Galazy sIII (home button doesn't work, battery runs for less than half a day and the screen got a couple of cracks under the tempered glass screen protector WTF)
Ironically I have had it for a bit less than 3 years. I guess it's complicated to make smartphones as durable.
Before the Galaxy S3 I had a second hand Palm Pre 2, which I bought second hand and loved for a bit over a year before it got water damaged just by using it continuously on rainy days (which is hard to avoid if you have to send a lot of emails and texts while working outdoors on a British winter)
Anyway RIP, Palm Pre 2, you were a nice piece of tech:
My second (smart)phone was a second hand white iphone 4s I got in Spring 2012 and I owned for 6 months before I sold it for the same money I bought it for to pay a nice holiday abroad. It's now in India. I bought it from an American girl. Damn that phone has traveled.
When I came back from the holiday in late 2012 I signed up for a contract with Three and I got this beauty which has lasted until now , although it kind of needs replacing. Will probably send it for recycling when I get my new phone.
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TL; DR
Now, my geeky friends it's time to ask you which phone should I replace it with?
I have a few phones in mind, but I would like to hear your suggestions.
I would also like to hear your personal phone history and your relationship with smartphones; love/hate etc.
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Originally Posted by catgeorge
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