Phone buying guide for dummies

This article is intended for people who don’t want to think much on choosing phones but absolutely demand their phone to be there for them always and don’t fiddle around with their devices and use the device till it dies. They earn enough money to buy a 300$ phone.

The requirements to be a dummy are the following:

• Employed (Occasionally unemployed)
• Average GPS user,
• Average Video streamer (Occasionally heavy user)
• Average Gamer (Occasional Extreme Gamer)
• Average Social Networking (Occasionally heavily networking)
• Average Photographer (Occasionally a professional)
• Average Reader

There is only one criteria for buying a phone and that is the budget. Always buy the flagship phone, be it apple iPhone or Samsung Galaxy Note/S phone or another flagship product manufacturer.

Now, the decision is simple,

If you/I have 1000$ (80,000₹) you/I may buy the latest flagship.

If you/I have 500$ (40,000₹) you/I may buy the second/third to last flagship.

If you/I have 300$ (25,000₹), you/I may buy the iPhone midrange or flagship available at that price range from the official store, because we need a new and genuine one.

Here, we might get some questions what if there’s no flagship phone at 300$. Here’s where we should do some extra work analysing the market before buying. In India, Samsung’s flagship S7 came till 300$ during festive season. We can exchange our older handset to buy the 2/3 year old flagship. In case of apple, even the SE/C/R series can be considered buying, they’re almost flagship hardware(camera and display are the corners cut) and same flagship software. An apple’s midrange device is not a mediocre device in camera/software performance and so they are perfect for people in 300$ segment like me.

Mobile Reviews are not usable

Most of the mobile phone reviewers in YouTube or anywhere else in the world, suggest a good value for money phone in any price bracket under 35k₹. But I hardly find those so called “value for money” phones good enough for me.

I am a full time software professional. My demands from a smartphone aren’t that huge. I need to be able to make calls, use mobile hotspot, play mild games for distraction, use gps while travelling, browse through instant messages in WhatsApp, view social graphical content from fb, YouTube, Twitter, occasionally photography and very occasional intensive gameplay. I wonder why the so called “value phones” or “flagship killers” or “killers’ murderers” devices fail to do that.

Don’t we deserve it? And there’s no point in exaggerating a mediocre device and misleading the general public into buying a cheap gadget, which ultimately fails us in some ways.

I have some real life experiences with some Chinese phones, of course value phones, the first one is a redmi 4, whose display cracked the first week of its purchase, the other one was a mi a1, which although beautified my photos, absolutely failed me while travelling to my new office location, by providing wrong/inaccurate gps locations.

And I read a lot of reviews about oneplus 6, poco f1 that they are having build quality issues and screen quality issues.

I think, these new manufacturers should release a set of known bugs to the customers so that the customer can understand what they’re getting into.

What do you think?