With the ever increasing competition between mobile
manufacturers, top manufacturers like LG, SONY, SAMSUNG, MOTOROLA, HTC, APPLE
and others roll out different flagship devices yearly. A perfect example is the
mobile tech giants Samsung, bringing out the galaxy s6 around March 2015 then
the s7 around February 2016 and that’s not even up to a year.
Recently the note 7
was released. The truth is most of us do not care about most of this features,
you get the new phone play with the new features for about 2 weeks and forget
about it. Look at the iris scanner that was introduced to some android phones
as a security feature that scans your eyes before granting the user access to
the phone. It’s a great feature but most people are so used to their pin,
password and pattern lock style and they tend to forget the iris scanner since
it feels a little bit sluggish to them while scanning the iris. I am not saying
getting a new flagship phone is bad but I think only the power users and geeks
that actually use the phones power to the limit actually need the phone not
some people who only use the basic social media applications, make regular
calls and send texts(Any android phone with 1gb ram can do that).
Another
fact to consider is the cost of this flagship devices. The Samsung s7 and lg g5
retails at above 200k plus in Nigerian naira. This devices come at such exorbitant
prices and to me it doesn’t make sense buying a device that would get trampled
upon by a new flagship device in less than a year. In my opinion why don’t you
get a used device that was a flagship device between the last two to three years?
This devices still have a lot of power in them to do the
basic things and even run hungry applications and with the help of so many
performance enhancing custom roms(popular ones like cyanogen mod and
resurrection remix).
Let me use the case of a friend I helped as an example. He
was using a Samsung galaxy s4 and due to a lot of apps and all that the phone
was lagging badly, takes about 6 seconds to open the dialer, phone restarts
sometimes. Touchwiz also had its part it plays in the whole drama. So my friend
called me and told me his phone was a pain in his ass. He needed a new and
‘fast’ device but he was ‘broke’. Then I told him I could bring his phone back
to life. So I rooted his phone, installed cyanogen mod 12 and voila his device
was back to life. He was actually surprised his phone could be that fast and
smooth. Till date he uses the phone as a daily driver and he also plays games
like fifa 16 and san andreas smoothly. So why don’t you get a phone that
wouldn’t cost much and would still be
almost as fast as the latest flagships with a little bit of tweaking.
To those who
don’t want to break the bank buying latests flagship devices but still need a
very good phone with powerful specifications, I currently recommend getting the
Samsung galaxy note 4- used ones sell for around 65-80 thousand nigerian naira.
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