I've gone low end, around the USD 100 mark, since mobile phones are just a tool, not the focal centre of you life like it is for some folk (my laptop is more that thing). Being cheap means I don't worry too much if I lose it, or it meets an untimely end in say a swimming pool.
In the last 8.5 years since I moved from Symbian to Android I've had one LG, two Samsungs and am now on a Xiaomi Redmi 5. The LG died with a faulty earphone jack (couldn't hear the person on the other end regardless of whether the earphone is being used), the two Samsungs died with charger circuit issues, but otherwise were fantastic phones for the approx 2 years they survived. The Redmi, which I've now had for 6 months has great specs, but the build quality is not so great. The screen is covered in cracks, and the buttons are starting to get difficult to press. Oh, well, you gets what you pay for, I suppose. By contrast, my wife used her iPhone 4s for about 6 years, with only one cracked screen needing to be replaced. Apple do have good build quality. Don't know if this helps. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
