And it supports two SIMs! Something that iPhones are only just going to catch up with, and then only in some markets. And it has a removable/replaceable battery. It’s a Motorola Moto E4 (see photos at left), which has a beautifully clear and bright 4.9″ diagonal screen, fingerprint security, 8 megapixel back camera, 5 megapixel front camera (with LED flash!), 2GB RAM and 16GB storage – but this can be expanded with a microSD card up to 128GB. I won’t call it a budget phone, since that implies it’s missing something or has a poor specification. It cost me just £70 (though it was on special offer at Argos – normal price £120) and frankly I’m sure that if I didn’t already have lots of Apple stuff I would be perfectly happy with this bargain phone.
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Even the iPhone 7, with a measly 4.7″ screen is too big for many people (including my wife who is not particularly small).īut anyway, for various reasons I recently bought an Android phone, to supplement my iPhone 7, not to replace it. Being able to hold a phone in one hand and reach every part of the screen with your thumb without having to hold the phone in two hands is surely a desirable design goal? Apparently not. Many men must find these larger phones clumsy and difficult to use.
Do we really need phones with massive screens? I have a lot of sympathy with women who assert that these new 5.8″ and bigger screens are way too big to handle safely or practically. The other reason I’m convinced that things have reached a peak is that Apple is insistent on making bigger phones, and dropping the smaller, less expensive – and in many ways ideally sized – iPhone 5 family (last seen as the 5SE). Or maybe it’s end users who are to blame, slavishly “upgrading” their phones every year or two?
OK, so there’s quite a lot of technical stuff in an iPhone, but is the utility a user gets from an iPhone really worth a thousand quid or more? I don’t really want to pick on Apple alone – others like Samsung and LG are just as guilty. You can get an extraordinarily well-spec’d laptop for that sort of money, or a beautiful, handmade Brompton folding bike (the lowest spec Brompton is just £855 from Evans cycles), which will last years and get you miles and miles and miles. I say that partly because the new iPhone X Max is priced as starting from £1099, and the iPhone X is priced from £999 – lovely pics of them both here. And I think we’ve arrived at that time for iPhones.