5 Things To Look Out For When Buying Your Next Smartphone, Especially Number 4

Smartphone these days is invaluable piece of device that one can hardly do without in their day to day activities.

It can easily serve as your daily diary, handbag, media house, camera, business tool just to mention a few.

Little wonder that today, smartphones are currently one of the most selling pieces of consumer electronic devices and its values continue to rise daily as our demands in life increases.

It is very uncommon not to see particular individuals from different household trooping to mobile market on daily bases in search of smartphone to buy either based on recommendation or just wanting to get the latest smartphone in town.

But before buying your next smartphones, we have taken it upon ourselves to carefully highlight the 5 important things to look out for, in order to get that suitable and portable piece of technology device that will surely rock your world.

Below is the list of 5 things you should strongly consider before picking up your next smartphone and you should note that we did not arrange it in any order of importance;

1. ROM/RAM – the ROM is the internal storage of device, while the RAM is the working memory of the phone. With bigger ROM, you should be able to store more things on your device even without the aid of external storage device like the popular micro SD cards, and also with larger RAM, your device should be able to run smoothly even while running many applications concurrently.

In other words, the bigger the ROM and RAM the better for the device. And these days that applications have gone from mere simple programs to more sophisticated and heavy utility tools, you should be looking beyond device with 16GB ROM and 1GB of RAM as your target should now be a smartphone with at least 32GB ROM and 2GB/3GB RAM. 

2. Camera – you will want to agree with us that with the emergence of modern day smartphones, small camera devices almost went into oblivion as it is becoming handier for individuals to use their phone cameras instead of moving around with addition piece of small camera; and our ladies can easily attest to that.

When it comes to smartphone cameras, the Megapixel (MP) alone is not only the true definition of the camera quality, as other factors like the camera aperture, light speed, angle range etc. should also come to place.

But ordinarily, you should be looking out to a device with 12MP to 16MP rear camera and 8MP to 12MP for selfie lovers. It is also important to note here that a device with good camera would surely have good video and display resolution.

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3. Battery Capacity – it is simple, the higher the battery capacity, the longer your phone would stay on even under heavy usage. And in a country like Nigeria where epileptic power supply is still the order of the day in most locations, big battery capacity for a smartphone is one of the most important things you should sort for. 

You should be looking out to a phone with not less than 3500 mAh battery capacity, and I'd you can easily lay your hand on 4000mAh battery or even more then you have conquered that area entirely. It is also important to note here that most smartphone batteries these days are non-removable, so don’t waste your precious time going to look for removable battery phones.

4. Chipset – this is commonly refer to as the processor and like the heart is to man, it is the engine room of the smartphone and it is the hardware component that plays major role in determining how fast and optimise-able other features of the phone can run.
Smartphone makers either manufacture their own chipset for their device or contract other company (fabless) for their chipset.

The 3 good and common types of chipsets are Mediatek (MTK), Qualcomm Snapdragon, and A. Most smartphones today run on any of them.

For MTK, you should look for device with Helio P10 MT6755, Helio X20 MT6797, Heliox X25 MT6797T, while for the Qualcomm Snapdragon, the 8…series are the modern and best performing processors; and finally for A chipset, you can look for devices with A9 and A10 chipset.

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5. Operating Systems – as chipset is hardware component, the integral software part of the smartphone that manages how this chipset and other hardware components interact with one another is the Operating System (OS). 

The two most common smartphone operating systems are Android and iOS, although most smartphones across the globe run on the former.

At this point, you should be looking out for device with Android 7 Nougat OS and iOS 10 or above, but the most important thing to consider here is to go for devices that are always ready to receiving software updates for newer upgraded versions of these OS.

When you consider the above 5 things while buying your next smartphone, you should be rest assured that you would be shopping like a pro and finally getting the rightful device for yourself that you would live to enjoy over long period of time, without always checking into the next phone stores annually like some of you do.