Switching phones was as easy as switching sim cards, then using the Android tools to move data from one to the other. Nothing to it. Getting a new cheaper T-mobile plan is turning out to be an ongoing ordeal, which requires a new sim card even though I’m keeping the same phone number and the same carrier. Grrr.
I’ll post thoughts on the phone soon. I haven’t used it much and in a few days, I’ll probably be used to the things that irk me now. It is a bit bigger. I really wanted a smaller phone but that’s not really an option.
Speaking of phone size, while reading a phone review I stumbled into this really useful size comparison tool last night. It doesn’t have every model of phone (including the one I have now, and some of the Chinese models I’ve been looking at) but here is the one I had before my current one (same screen size) compaired to the one I am 99% likely to buy next month.
And speaking of small, you could have gone with the new Palm phone…
Okay, perhaps smaller was an option but that’s going too far in that direction. The first article about the Palm that I read says it is just an accessory to another phone with which it has to share a phone number. I want less to carry, not more. It also costs more than I want to spend. Thanks for pointing it out though.
The website on phone sizes looks great. I hope other people shopping around for phones take note. I do like the size of the Samsung you are considering.
That’s outdated.
It is even bigger than yours. Maybe you meant the old phone I’m replacing.
I can’t tell you what phone you should get but do not buy a Doogee! I bought the S60 when it came out and it’s been at best a mixed bag. The ip68 rating, battery size, and general toughness of the phone is good. The complete lack of security updates, defective fingerprint reader, lack of customer support and external buttons that are way too easy to push suck.
I recently upgraded to a Moto G6. I’m pretty happy with it.
I saw a smaller-screen one with a 19:9 aspect ratio, but decided that I didn’t want to get a long little Doogee.
Updating everyone who asked about how I like my phone. I’m not a demanding judge of phone quality and I’ve barely used it so I don’t have too much to say but I didn’t want to disappoint those who might be checking back in.
I have smaller hands and it’s a usable size for me but it’s very slippery. It slides off any surface that isn’t perfectly level and it’s hard to hold so I assume I will break it soon. Other than that, it does the minimal things I expect of a phone well enough. I tend to use it with a low screen brightness and location services and bluetooth turned off. Battery life for me could probably stretch to two full days of actual use. Sound quality of phone calls is better than my last phone but, according to the people I talk to, the microphone might be overly sensitive to wind noise when used outside. I haven’t used the camera so I have no opinion of that yet. I’ll let you know if I come up with any stronger opinions.
Thanks again for all of your help picking it out.
{And great pun, Darren Garrison.)
That makes me think of a similar issue with phones that I’ve had. I see videos on YouTube and I don’t hear breathing over them, but any time I make a video, even if I deliberately breath so shallowly and slowly that I wouldn’t be able to sustain it for long and remain concious, it always comes out sounding like it was filmed by Darth Vader.
So, if anyone is curious, I finally ordered the Galaxy J Crown I was thinking about. Luckily, I almost randomly stumbled across in a Youtube video the fact that isn’t made very clear anywhere: there are two versions of the phone–while the version offered by most carriers has 16 GB of internal storage, the unlocked version and the Simple Mobile version have 32 GB. So I went with the Simple Mobile one, which can be bought for $99 with a service plan. (It is 250 unlocked.) It arrived today and I’m pretty pleased with it so far. About the most processor-intensive thing I do on my phone is recompress videos–I just ran a side-by-side test and the new phone finished the video while the old phone was still at 18% complete. (Of course, a new flagship phone would probably finish when the old phone is at 5%, maybe less, ubt a new flagship doesn’t cost a hundred bucks.) It is looking like battery life is going to be around double the old phone, too. Other than having the same amount of RAM (2 GB–don’t laugh, it hasn’t limited anything I’ve wanted to do so far) is an improvement in every way.
