What baffles me is that year in, year out people all rush out to fork out £600 - £1500 on a phone. OK, I say phone but that's a rather loose term for a pocket computer really. However when all is said and done, it's a phone with some really really fancy features yet EVERY time I see someone with a £1000 phone, they're on Facebook, or Twitter, or a web site or listening to some shit 128kb bitrate MP3 nicked off the internet. Some are using them for GPS features such as recording bike rides, running and for some weird fucking reason, their daily walk to the shops (WTF is that about?)
Of course there are some people using more advanced apps on their "phones" but in the grand scheme of things.... the percentage is quite low.
I also get that some of these phones are sporting exceptional cameras but what I have found is that no matter how good the camera is, and no matter how good it looks on the phone screen, get that image onto a PC and it's flat, washed out and often very grainy. Fine if you don't have a PC and just live your life with a pocket screen I suppose.
So people get stuck in their 24 and 36 month contracts (how long will it be before it's 48 months?), just so they can afford the £1000 phone but they end up paying £50 - £70 month for it (with a £0 up front fee). For what? Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, texts and a bit of web browsing. Even then, within 12 months, they're looking to change it for a newer version or they've dropped it and smashed the screen (then replaced it with a really shite cheap copy screen done by the local cowboy phone repairman)
I got away from contract shite the minute decent budget phones started really taking a hold on the market. I didn't like they way it was going and as for mobile data, whenever I'm in a building, I'm generally on a WiFi connection, if I'm nowhere near a wifi connection, I'm generally somewhere I don't need to be looking into my phone constantly.
As such, I have an Honor 9 Lite. It cost me £160. I have a £7/month contract that gives me 1200 minutes off network minutes per month but unlimited calls across the same network or to other mobiles on the same network. I generally tend to make at most an hours worth of calls a month. As for Data, I get 6Gb mobile data per month which rolls over for a month if not used... I rarely hit over a 1gb or 2 per month.
The camera is reasonable, the phone is fast, and it does what I need it to (which seems to be the same as the £1000 phones).
Who needs a £1000 phone?
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