Submission + - AskSlashdot: What are your selection criteria for a new smartphone? 2
shanen writes: What matters to you when you buy a new smartphone? But how to make the recurring topic relevant without more SCREAMS about "dupe"? I do have a bit of recent research I could share. Quite a bit of fresh data since my latest search started a couple of months ago? Or perhaps start with a summary of the useful bits from an ancient AskSlashdot discussion about the batteries?
Seems funny to ask about relevant books, even though two come to mind already. One is The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, where he argues that smartphone use by preadolescents is destroying their personalities. The other is Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who doesn't actually say much about them but I still think they should have been included in the the big table of examples at the end of the prologue. The "system" of smartphones is antifragile even though the earliest models were quite fragile and the essence of this question is about which current smartphone models are most robust...
Maybe I should include a list of my own criteria so far? However mostly they would just be responses to the problems with my current Samsung Galaxy and the Oppo before that. I've already determined that the main two main problems don't exist with any of the current options offered by my phone company... And the ancient battery problems are still lurking, too.
Seems funny to ask about relevant books, even though two come to mind already. One is The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, where he argues that smartphone use by preadolescents is destroying their personalities. The other is Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who doesn't actually say much about them but I still think they should have been included in the the big table of examples at the end of the prologue. The "system" of smartphones is antifragile even though the earliest models were quite fragile and the essence of this question is about which current smartphone models are most robust...
Maybe I should include a list of my own criteria so far? However mostly they would just be responses to the problems with my current Samsung Galaxy and the Oppo before that. I've already determined that the main two main problems don't exist with any of the current options offered by my phone company... And the ancient battery problems are still lurking, too.
Android with minimal Bloatware (Score:2)
I strongly dislike iPhones, and I'm willing to make hardware concessions to avoid Samsung's bloatware. I'm on my third Pixel, and I'm very happy.
One of my criteria is hard to fill (Score:1)
I want to be able to listen to broadcast FM radio when the internet/cell service is unavailable. In practice, this means an FM receiver + an antenna (typically wired earphones over an AUX jack) + an FM radio app.
This is getting harder and harder to find on any phone that isn't "out of the running" for other reasons.
My other main considerations are:
* Supported life of hardware
* Supported life of operating system
* Hardware (quality/features of camera(s), audio chip/speakers/microphone/AUX-port, touch screen,