# Recommend a phone for me **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 7, 2020, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-phone-for-me/920060 "2020-09-07T20:22:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2020, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-phone-for-me/920060/21 "2020-09-26T22:43:53Z")
I’m curious to know, was it a Verizon corporate store or was it a verizon retailer such as Bullfrog and the like? I ask because my experience has always been that at the corporate stores the staff are frickin pirates and dishonest (if not outright liars) to boot whilst the opposite is true at the noncorporate retailers ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-phone-for-me/920060/22 "2020-09-27T01:24:54Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > So I’m now the owner of a new ZTE Blade Vantage 2. IMHO a really big mistake to go with a 16 GB phone when you could have stepped up to 32 GB for not much more cost. And a 2050 mAh battery is simply **horrible**. You will need to replace this one much sooner than if you had spent very slightly more on more memory and a halfway decent battery. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-phone-for-me/920060/23 "2020-09-27T01:55:43Z")
Eh, this one is expandable, so if I find I need more storage, I’ll just get an SD. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-phone-for-me/920060/24 "2020-09-27T02:02:33Z")
An SD is great for video files, music, and pictures, but many apps don’t work well if you move them to the SD card. Nowadays, you need a minimum of at least 32 GB of _internal_ memory, and I’d recommend at least 64 GB if you can afford it. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2020, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-phone-for-me/920060/25 "2020-09-27T03:03:41Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Thanks for the suggestions, all! I had a feeling that I was being upsold, but didn’t realize that it was by a factor of 10. I don’t have anything philosophical against Apple products (in fact, my primary computer is a Mac), but they really don’t have a low-end phone, so I’d be wasting money if I bought an iPhone (they don’t have low-end computers, either, but I demand more from a computer than I do from a phone, and was willing to pay for a high-end one). Looks like you already got a new phone, but if your primary computer is a Mac, I strongly suggest you consider an iPhone when your current phone needs to be replaced. You can save a bundle if you get the cheapest phone available, such as a model from a year or two ago. I’ve used nothing but Macs for my personal computer going back to 1986, and have used an iPhone since they became available on Verizon in 2011. The whole Apple ecosystem generally works pretty well together: contacts, calendars, photos, music, books, etc. all seamlessly sync between my desktop, my iPad, and my iPhone. The camera on the iPhone is good enough that I no longer take a separate camera on vacation. All of my music is on it, and it streams to my car while driving and to my stereo at home. And everything on my iPhone is pretty much duplicated on my iPad if I need a larger screen. There are things I don’t like about Apple, like planned obsolescence for hardware that has plenty of life left in it (says the guy typing on a 2008 Mac Pro\*), and their insistence on new operating systems every single year, but I mitigate much of that by waiting for them to work out the bugs before upgrading. As for my desktop, I will eventually have to replace it when it stops talking to my iPhone – since I am stuck on Mac OS X El Capitan. \*Not that I have much to complain about regarding a 12-year old desktop computer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-phone-for-me/920060.md?page=1)