New Cell Phone Choice
So I'm finally thinking about replacing my old trusty Samsung G5. I've had it for 5 years now. It's been good to us. Survived 4 cross country trips and taken hundreds of pictures. I have 2 reasons for...
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Tom N wrote:
I would go for an iPhone. An iPhone 8 or later.
iPhone 8 is no longer available, replaced by the iPhone SE (2020 version) .
We originally went the iPhone route versus Android due to the iPhone having the better camera at the time even though I would typically want more options to tinker with the phone as in Android versus the more limited iPhone environment.
Previous phone was the original iPhone SE which was great, small and light, but needed to replace it due to the charging port wearing out. I thought the new iPhone SE would be good as it was reputed to use the same chipset as the iPhone 11. But I couldn’t wait so I got the iPhone 11.
The iPhone SE uses the same case and screen as the iPhone 8. Likely same battery also. So with the iPhone 11, which is much more expensive, I get a bigger screen, bigger battery, possibly more RAM. It has 2 camera lenses also, regular and extra wide, and better night photos. Both phones have wireless charging so no wearing out the charging port this time. And both phones are water resistant to 1 meter for 30 minutes.
That said the 11 is heavy and has a big screen, edge to edge which is a 6.1” screen.
If the new iPhone SE had an edge to edge screen it would have a 5.5” screen instead of its iPhone 8-like 4.7” screen with big bezels. A 1/2” shorter phone and lighter would likely be most interesting to me but is not available at this time.
5G is not an issue for me as the high frequency 5G signals can’t penetrate walls, etc. so phones will have to fall back to 4G LTE a lot of the time.
