10 Things to Remember when Buying a New Mobile Phone

Buying a new mobile phone can be a pain for a newbie who hardly has any knowledge of the technical stuff and hence if you are one of these people than you must look at these points before getting a new phone. The reality is that the things are pretty simple when choosing a new mobile phone, there are a set standard things that you need to check and hence once you have gone through the points below you wouldn’t face any issues in buying a new phone anytime again. The point’s cover the important aspects of a mobile phone and you can check the phone’s specs on website’s like GSMArena or the Mobile Phone’s official website. 

So if you are planning to go mobile shopping to buy a new mobile phone then here are the important things you need to remember.

1. Mobile Phone Hardware Specs and Build Quality The better the hardware the better the mobile phone performance. Every smart mobile phone has a Processor, RAM, GPU and chipset and these things combined help the mobile function. When buying a new mobile phone remember to prefer the phone’s that have more powerful processor, it would actually depend upon your budget but a Dual Core or Quad Core processor is the one that you need to look out for. Also a powerful RAM would complement your mobile phone processor and hence the phone’s performance so try going with phone’s that have atleast 1 GB or more RAM. Also do check out the Mobile Phone build quality, because that certainly plays an important role in the phone’s durability.

2. Mobile Display Mobile phone’s today mostly come with touch screen display’s which are mostly capacitive, always prefer sharp, vivid displays with great viewing angles. You can look for words like AMOLED, LCD 3 or IPS in mobile specs which generally relates to high quality mobile phone displays. You must also check out the mobile display resolution and PPI Pixel density. Also remember displays must be Scratch Resistant, you can look for words like Corning Gorilla or Scratch Resistant on mobile phone box. Also it’s not always important that bigger displays would give better usage experience.

3. Mobile Phone Battery Backup An Electronic gadget become’s unusable as soon as the battery become’s dead hence Batteries are one of the most important criteria when choosing a new mobile phone. The Mobile Phone Operating System also plays a big role in battery usage and everything depends upon the services that are synching regularly in a mobile phone but when choosing a new mobile phone remember to shortlist the phone’s that have high capacity batteries mainly in the range of 1800 mAH or more. Mobile phone’s with more powerful processors and big displays would drain more battery so make your choice wisely here. As per our review’s Windows Phone consumes minimal battery followed by iOS and Android (drains maximum battery).

4. Mobile Phone Software Now there are a lot of choice’s in choosing a Mobile Phone OS and it all come’s down to personal preference here. As per the current trend Android is the leading Mobile Phone OS closely followed by iOS and Windows. These 3 Mobile OS have big app’s market that lets you download an app for a particular task or download awesome games and you wouldn’t typically have much issues with any of these three mobile phone OS. But remember to check out our link of mobile operating systems because there are some other solid mobile phone os’s out in market too.

5. Mobile Phone Call Quality and Reception Mobile Phone’s primary purpose is still to make and receive calls and hence no compromise should be made here. There is actually no way to check this out without testing the phone yourself and most often the mobile phone’s come in sealed packs so you wouldn’t be able to test this out. But you can definitely check out some online reviews that would confirm you the Mobile phone signal reception in real conditions. Also some reputed mobile phone manufacturers are known for the signal and phone call quality so you can’t go wrong if you choose phone’s from manufacturers like Nokia, Samsung, HTC, Blackberry, LG, Apple, etc.

6. Mobile Phone Price Now this is again one very important factor when choosing a new mobile phone, most of us are bound by our budgets and it’s always good to compare the specs of the mobile phones in similar price range from different manufacturers so that you can get an idea of the things you need to look for. A value for money mobile phone is what you should be looking at, one that provides you all the features you are looking for in your budget.

7. Mobile Multimedia & Camera Capability A lot of us here are music lovers and hence it’s important to check the multimedia capability of a mobile phone before deciding to buy it as a lot of time is spent by us to listen to music or watch videos. See if your phone is able to support all music codecs and also the voice output of your mobile phone through inbuilt speaker and through earphone. Also you must check if your phone can play Full HD videos and if it has native Youtube apps or not. Camera must also be checked, generally a higher mega pixel camera delivers better results (there are some exceptions to this like Ultra megapixel camera on HTC One). You can usually check these things when buying a new mobile phone on the phone’s official website or box pack.

8. Reviews Now this is one of the easiest way to choose your next phone. There are tons of people that review the new smart phones every day and you would find review of every mobile phone out there on Internet. You must check out those reviews to find out the Good and Bad things about that particular phone and see if the phone is apt for your needs. Some of the Popular website’s that review mobile phone’s are Wired, CNET, etc.

9. Manufacturer Support & Updates Whenever you are choosing a phone try going with an established manufacturer because they are the one’s that have great support staff and generally have a service center in your city so that your phone issue can be sorted quickly and easily. Also see or try confirming from manufacturer if any updates in regards to Mobile Phone’s Operating system would be made available in the near future because they are important to keep your mobile phone fresh and updated.

10. Follow the Masses If you are still not able to decide your next phone than the best bet for you is to follow the masses, see what other people are buying and blindly follow them. You can see the phone’s your more tech savy friends are using and ask them about the phone experience and buy the same one.

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