10 basic pointers to consider while buying a smartphone

10 basic pointers to

 consider while

 buying a

 smartphone

"10 basic pointers to consider while buying a smartphone" will definitely going to help you, if you are buying a new smartphone.

Hi there this is Aditya then in this article let's discuss some pointers that you should look when you're buying a new smartphone. 

These days a lot of new smartphones keep launching and it is a bit confusing.

 However here i am planning to provide you with some basic pointers that you simply have to check out once you are buying a smartphone.

 This is applicable to anyone for.

 Example I'll talk specifically if it's a budget phone.

 What you need to look at mid-range are on the premium end and let's gone over it are divided in ten broad points so let's start,

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10 basic pointers to consider while buying a smartphone are,

1. Processor =

Processor

First with the processor and the good thing is now that in 2020 if you buy any smart phone generally the processors on them are actually so good.

That it's not going to be like very laggy or something in a UI or if you click what do you say a small app like Twitter X that will take 2-3 seconds to load us up.

So that is a good thing but again if you're buying a new smartphone even in the budget range avoid the Snapdragon 4x lineup of chipset.

Some of the vendors the lower end vendors are still offering some of the phones with snapdragon 430 for the 439 etc.

So avoid that I would say here the media at X Helio chipsets are the one to go for example you can now find the Helio P 70 SOC even in what do you say phones around seven eight thousand.

I feel that's actually a good point about the Snapdragon 4x lineup in that budget range now if you talk about the mid-range.

Which is again the most popular one in India.

Here, I would say now if you're getting yeah because generally some of the vendors release some phones with an aggressive price point.

But they try to use a large generation processor here if you're going I would say go at least with the snapdragon 670.

The least I would say is the snapdragon 660, if you're getting a very good deal on something.

But mostly I would say for the mid-range the processor that you should go will be the Snapdragon sainik series.

It can be anything on the lower end 710 712 or even the newer ones like the Snapdragon 720G is actually very good.

I would say that's the best pick in terms of performance and power that's very power efficient then if you do a lot of gaming and stuff then you can have the snapdragon 730G also.

From the mediatek we have the mediatek P90 and the mediatek G90T etc those are also actually good processors that you can get and again on the flagship.

You know that with the snapdragon we have this snapdragon 865 that you will get so that's what we have.

But again if you're gonna take a Samsung mid-range smartphone which is again pretty popular.

Because it get  other things right again if it's a samsung one mostly it could exceed  us but make sure it is at least the Exynos 9611.

Because this one has at least a 10 nanometer processor the earlier exhale nose once.

2. storage =

Storage options

I would not recommend now I'm moving to Storage which is again very important.

I would say minimum 32GB even on the very budget oriented smartphones.

It simply does not make any sense to think below that.

I might recommend a minimum of sixty four gigabytes that Need to be be the minimum internal storage ideally.

I might say go with 128 gigabytes if you plan to use your phone for more than a year or so because many of the apps for example even your whatsapp information and serious games etc can select your internal memory.

Although you have got a microSD card slot thus I might say 128 gigabytes is the sweet spot.

But yeah you can get away with 64 32 is the bare minimum.

But I can go over 64 if I were you and also in terms of storage yes you can't expect this within the too low budget.

However even within the mid-range confirm it's that UFS two.1 storage as a result.

Because of the mid-range phones these they're coming back with that 48 megapixel camera.

Even some of them are coming back at sixty four megapixel camera and you wish a storage that's quick too right if it is not fast if you click a photograph you will see that circle again in this rotating like that.

Because the store it is simply not that fast to process and and again on the higher-end variants you are getting the UFS 3 dot o storage UFS 3.1 also make sure it has generally if it's a flagship it'll have a UFS 3 to storage.

3. RAM =

RAM

Now coming to "RAM" this is a controversial thing and I would say avoid even on the ultra budget range that is six seven thousand rupees phones. 

A smart phones having 2 gigabytes of RAM because what we are noticing is that Android is giving getting heavier.

  We're within every generation and many of the popular apps are actually getting heavier, so they require a lot more RAM.

 So I would suggest phones having a minimum of three gigabytes of RAM.

 Even if you're looking for fix budget smartphone in mid-range the minimum.

 I would say is four gigabytes but ideally I might say go together with six gigabytes of RAM.

As a result of once more as I told you a lot of new Phones are coming back with that higher megapixel cameras like 64 MP etc.

  That extra RAM is actually required to process the images, so I will suggest mid-range minimum.

The bare minimum is 4 gigabytes but ideally I can go towards that 6 gigabytes of RAM and on flagships yes 8 gigabytes is more than enough.

 I'm not in that what do you say mantra of having 12 gigabytes of RAM right now you simply don't need that making bytes of RAM but yeah many vendors on the spec list for high-end phones give you that.

4. Network connectivity selection, buy a 5g phone or not?

 digital network connectivity

Anyways now if you move to another thing and this is important in India because I do get this question quite a bit what about 5G the phone that I'm lying right now 5G.

I mean if you're buying what do you say Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 best smartphone that will have 5G.

Because 5G comes with that why it happens, but again I would say as of now don't try to pay extra for a 5G smartphone, because realistically in India we will not see 5G till 2023 or even by 2023 now one year extension.

Because of this lockdown and stuff nothing is happening so India is almost three years of a right now.

For realistically 5G deployment and by that time your if you paid something extra just for that 5G that for might get absolutely and right now the 5G modems that I have been used are not that power efficient hopefully by next year we will get a lot of what you say the modems will become more power efficient .

That way I would say 5G is not much right now and simply in India it simply does not make any sense.

But yeah if you are an international traveler if you travel a lot to European and American countries then yes fighting make sense but again it's just for India IT simply does not make sense .

We will be getting some mid-range smartphones in the future touting 5G and these companies will market at us as 5G ready you ready.

But again just use your brain.

A little bit and think will it be useful do we have 5g in India and when we'll be checking back anyways let.

5. Display =

Display

Let's now move to the important thing that is the Display that's the most important thing about a smartphone.

I won't talk about the screen sizes these days we simply are not getting this compact screen sizes phones.

So we are moving anywhere about the six inch of screen size and the thing is that because in earlier phones.

We used to have thick bezels at the top and the bottom these days as you can see the aspect ratio has changed.

So the bezels are simply not there that's why they are able to come in a lot bigger screen.

So these areas see the screen size anywhere from about six inches on the smaller end to about even six point nine six point seven.

I would say six point seven is slightly bigger this is the Redmi note 9 pro this has a six point seven inch screens and definitely it's on the bigger side.

I would say comfortable size would be about six point four to six point five inches and now talking about the screen technology.

Here I would say even in the ultra low budget range don't go with smartphones that give you a Tip what do you say TFT LCD display.

The problem with those is that doing angles are so bad if you look it straight it looks nice.

But even if you tilt a little it fades away and stuff but luckily most of the vendors aren't giving that we'll be obtaining AN IPS LCD screen.

Also the sensible issue is with the IPS LCD screen is that the viewing angles are good.

The colour reproduction is also good.

So that's actually a nice thing but again look at the brightness level.

How bright the panel can go this is a next generally they specify 408 for 15 it's 508-515 it's the more expensive the phone and the good brightness.

It can go and the advantage of this is that in direct sunlight it is easily visible.

Another thing is that how low the phone brightness can go and this is also very important.

Many people forget to look at this for example at night you close all the lights and you are reading your phone.

Because your spouse is looking you don't understand many phones cannot go very low in brightness.

So that is also something you have to note and now if we talk about AMOLED screens.

Yes it's great and many of those some phones have between even their mid-range phones have AMOLED screen.

You know the advantage of AMOLED screen the great contrast and punchy colours.

But again beware of family screens in what do you say budget oriented phones.

Because the things is that many times I've seen that lower-cost AMOLED screens are simply not that good the colour accuracy is very bad.

Also if you tilt a little the colour shifts you will see a green issue or a pink issue for example the 3 if I remember I had one of the very bad.

Screens even pixel had bad so look at being a little critical with AMOLED screens.

What you have for example in this aspect the real means range for example.

If I recall the realme X actually had an AMOLED screen those actually provided good AMOLED screen .

So again be a little careful when you're choosing an armlet screen also in AMOLED screen.

This is very important this is not only for budget oriented mid-range phones.

But even some higher-end phones have noticed that on an AMOLED screen if you lower down the brightness too low levels.

It starts to flicker that ought to not happen which will provide you with a headache if you utilize the phone at night or not.

So again see what how does the display behave if you just keep it on the very low prices.

It should not what you say flicker some of new phones have DC dimming option.

If that is there that might get but some higher-end phones for example,

If I recall even the OnePlus 7t had that flickering issue.

So again be careful with that generally Samsung has been good with their AMOLED screens.

I have noticed that they don't have this flickering issue.

But again if you're using an amulet screen check if how does it behave in very low light low brightness areas sorry the battery right on the camera.

6. Battery =

Battery

Anyways now let's talk about the battery.

Here I would say that the mid-range phones actually do much better than the flagships.

But I really have to talk about one battery capacity.

I would say at least four thousand milliamp hour battery is a good begin that ought to provide one day's typical usage to most of the users out.

There once more if you are a more serious user.

We are a lot of smartphones 5,000 and even about six thousand milliamp hour that we are getting now.

Let's also talk about fast charging you on the ultra budget, and we can't expect fast charging.

So you will get the 10 watt charger so to take a little of time but non mid-range smartphones.

If you're buying a mid-range smartphone make sure and check what type of fast charging does it support 15 watt or 18.

What does it support Qualcomm quick charge standard or what is the standard that is supporting. 

If it's a slightly higher end smartphone then I would suggest that check what kind of charging does it have 25 watt, 30 watt, 40 watt, 45 watt or and even this is very important.

If it's a high-end smartphone this is important does it support power delivery this is very important if it does the power delivery then you can charge it with your laptop's USB type-c charger or something like that in fact.

So check if it has power delivery charging options.

7. Software update =

Software update

Now talking about another thing is software update cycle and in this differs from ground to band.

So look at the history of that brand, how good it is with the past devices based on software updates does it provide updates quickly or not.

So again this is also something you have to note and tell me what am notice is that again beware of some brands that launch too many devices.

Because what can happen is that if they launch too many devices then the update cycle will definitely slow down.

So that is also something that you have to note but again you have to do a little of googling and see if their older devices were getting software update regularly or not.

So this is also an important aspect about Android upgrades.

Many people talk to me about that realistically guys even on higher end smartphones.

We generally had just only 2 cycles of Android OS updates if you want more than switch to iPhones.

8. Camera =

Camera

Now talking about camera performance again here megapixel count is not everything.

I'm also not a firm believer of having five different cameras at the back of your camera.

I would say if a smartphone is having multiple cameras three things that you have to look on it.

If it's on a better finish confirm it's optical image stabilization it.

It need have a daily camera it ought to have an honest fine angle lens and a good telephoto that's a zoom lens these are the three things that it should have.

If it's a higher megapixel again most of them will do pixel winning.

So again see how good is the image processing how does it this is the big difference that I've noticed in the industry.

Both let's say a and B vendor are they both might have the same 64 megapixel camera sensor exactly the same.

But the images that you see at the output will be very different.

Then we you know how both these firms do the after image processing so again that is also very important in the last one year.

After Lotus won one and a half years Xiaomi has really improved their image processing ugly this to be not garbage.

But again I've noticed that Xiaomi also has a variation between one model to the other.

So again be careful sometimes if they might launch 2 models and the expensive one might have better image processing.

So again that is also important and you have to look at samples and stuff to see and how are the skin tones that are produced.

Because if you just take static pictures of sceneries and stuff that.

Buildings and stuff they will look nice because most of those smartphones have very good resolutions these days.

But how does it process human subjects and stuff if you take selfies.

How good are the selfies how's the skin tone and so these are some things that you have to notice so again look for reviews with samples and stuff for that.

Now if we talk about what do you say front-facing camera here, I feel have noticed that some branch example Oppo.

We will put a lot of stress on the front-facing camera so if you are a person who takes a lot of selfies then I feel the image processing that open Vivo does are actually better than many of the ones.

For example in this area I feel Samsung the higher-end phones don't do that well in the what do you say selfie Department now lastly.

This is regarding video recording don't get me wrong many of the smartphones do actually 4k video recording also that's common.

But the problem is that how's the quality of the video that isn't something that is very important.

I would say the gold standard as of now is the video that we get from iPhone generally the iPhones do plug good.

But some of them are new Android phones are also doing good and media it's not just at 4k.

But what is the quality of them you for example I'm recording from this camera but I'm recording it at 1080p.

But the 1080p recording quality is way better than any smartphone that can record okay.

So look at the quality of the video recording and also look at if the device has optical image stabilization if it doesn't have many of the mid-range phones won't have that.

But make sure does it have I guess that is electronic image tablet otherwise you simply cannot handle and shoot the video to be very shaky.

Also if you are a person who likes to do blogging and stuff then make sure the front-facing camera also supports see I guess that is electronic image stable.

Otherwise if you shoot the video like this it will be very shaky so these are some things that you need to look and apart from that 4k or whatever look at the video and see how's the open do you like that picture quality.

How its processing the images and everything as I told you every brand has a specific variety of image that they need to take with their image process so is additionally necessary.

9. Calling experience =

Phone call

Apart from that you also have to look at some generic stuff again watch different reviews for that for example.

How is the call quality that is the earpiece on the device generally I've found that most are good.

But sometimes some models the piece is not curved how's the network reception most of the phones do good in but how does it perform in areas with no low network area does it get disconnected.

A lot of stuff like that support for volte these days most of the phones will have but what about Wi-Fi calling with what networks to do with.

10. Speakers and mic quality =

Mobile speckers check

That work how is the speakerphone quality.

Because many times we take calls why speakerphone.

How is the fingerprint on it is it fast a house if it's In display fingerprint scanner is it faster what house this a speaker or a TN loudness.

Conclusion =

So these are some things that you need to look at when  you're buying a new smartphone.

This  is a generic overview but I hope looking at some of these points note down the paper.

Whenever you are looking for a new smartphone and see what are the criteria that are very important to you to get  a check back or not.

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