My Google-fu is not strong today.
A couple of months ago, I found some websites that had the top list of things people take into account when buying a cell phone (e.g. price, features, style, battery life, etc)
For the life of me, I can’t find any such info today, so I’m turning to Dopers for help.
Heres’s a few:
http://cellphones.about.com/gi/pages/poll.htm?linkback=http://cellphones.about.com&poll_id=1777908783&submit1=Submit+Vote
http://www.associatedcontent.com/pop_print.shtml?content_type=article&content_type_id=58612
http://www.telecombeacon.com/cell-phone-features.htm
Thanks.
The first link is good, though has a limited set of features.
However, the second and third links are about what you should look for in a phone, not about what people do look for in a phone.
Idealy, I’d like to see results akin to the first link, but with more features being listed.
This is up your alley too:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,125937-page,1/article.html
Also, here’s one that identifies people’s uses of their phones based on demographics:
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tech_stats/cellusage050817.htm
A really awesome site is Phone Scoop
One thing that is crucial to your mobile phone purchase is the insurance policy.
How is the insurance going to react if your phone is cloned, or damaged or lost?
You would expect some sort of admin or excess charge, but on cloned phones, some insurance companies make you pay the bill in full before they reimburse you.
Since a contract phone cloning could cost you many hundreds of $£ etc, it’ll hurt your cashflow dramatically.
I don’t know where you live. But in the US the number one thing is who is the service provider. Once you have decided that then you choose a phone.
I’m wondering if this is an American/European regional difference. I don’t think I’ve ever had an insurance policy on a cell phone. If it got broken or stolen, I assume I’d have to buy another one. I’m not sure about cloned, but I assume that’d be a fraud issue, not a hardware replacement issue.
A cell phone seems like too cheap an item to worry about insuring. I don’t insure my iPod or my bicycle. I don’t even insure my car (against damage. And I realize I’m in the minority here), and it costs a lot more.
Its not terribly common to insure your phone, and even so it gets insured by the phone provider. Its just a warranty, and it’ll usually be pretty reasonably priced, maybe a tenth to a fifth of the cost of the phone.