Important But Commonly Ignored Phone Features (Must Read)

Now, you might be exited when you here a

phone specifications to be, 3500mah battery, 5″

inch screen, 16mp camera and so on, but you

end up buying the phone and disliking it. Why?

Because there are some little thing you ignore

in a phone. And most of these things, cheap,

starter manufacturers ignore them too when

building their phones.

1. Screen Resolution

Sure, most times you don’t ignore screen size

but you ignore its resolution, some phones with

loud specifications, could actually come with a

very poor resolution, so poor you would hate

looking at the screen, watching movies or just

viewing pictures as they would produce very

little detail and poor colours with a lot of noise.

For example HD 1080p is alright for a 5″

screen, anything lower than that might not

make good impressions to your eyes.

2. Battery Life

Yes Battey Life not Battery Size, these are two

different things, look at it this way, a plate of

rice for breakfast could last some people till

evening, while others, by 12 noon, they are

hungry again, the plate of rice here, is the

battery size! And depending on the person

which is the Phone, it could take them for

either half a day or a full day, which is the

battery life! So next time you want to buy a

phone, don’t just be carried away by 3500mAh,

there are phones with just 2000mAh that would

last twice longer.

Someone asked me to expanciate this point.

There are some companies that focus on

optimising the phone to use less battery power,

one company that has been the best at doing

this is Sony, they put time in working out how

an amount of power should keep the phone up,

and cutting down every other place power leaks

or is over used. Some other companies don’t

care, they believe the bigger the battery the

longer the life. Again, Samsung galaxy note 4

has a battery size of 3220mAh and battery life

of 8 hours 43 minutes but Samsung Galaxy

Note 5(the newer version) has a battery size of

3000mAh(220mAh less) and a battrey life of 9

hours 11 minutes (28 minutes more) so think

again.

3. Charge Time

Back to the plate of rice, some people (like my

younger brother) can take hours just to eat a

plate of rice, but others (like me), mehn no

time, na sharp sharp tinz, it should take around

5-10 mins. Back to phones. Just because our

phones has the same battery size does not

mean they would use the same charging times,

a phone might have just 1500mAh battery but

would spend minutes longer than a phone with

3500mAh to charge. You know its very

annoying to charge your phone for almost an

hour, and its just in 60%. So next time you want

to buy a phone, try to find out how long it takes

to charge full.

4. Camera quality

Again, another thing we skip is the quality of

pictures taken by the phone’s camera, mega-

pixel does not determine quality, no! Quality of

a phone camera varies with devices even when

they have the same mega-pixel, an example is

the iPhone. Apart from recently announced

iPhone 6s, previous versions had 8 mega-pixel

cameras up to iPhone 4, but each had

progressing camera quality, as iPhone 8-mega-

pixel are compared to other phones 13/16/20

mp cameras. Likewise there is no 8 mega-pixel

camera (aside from top brands) that can be

compared to iPhone’s own, and iPhone 8 mega-

pixel even produce better pictures than some

phone 16 mega-pixels camera. So you might

want to check this out before buying your next

phone and not just rely on the mega-pixels.

5. Camera Flash Brightness

All Flashlight aint the same!! Just like every

touch light does not have the same brightness,

there are phones with flashlight that if you see

them, you would prefer the phone had no flash.

Like my friend former tecno(can’t remb the

brand). A candle would out shine the flash on

that phone. So don’t just see “flash light” in the

phone specifications and be happy, check how

bright it is first before purchasing the phone.

6. Phone size

Again, Phone Size is not Screen Size, I’m

writing this article believing people reading it

are not too concerned with technology, so I’m

trying to detail every point to be as easy to

understand as possible. There is what is called

Screen-to-body ratio, this is a specification

category telling you how wide the phone bezel

(the part on the front of your phone that is not

the screen) are. This is to say even if two

phones both have 5″ inch screen, they won’t

actually have the same body size. Some

phones are really sleek in your hands, and

some are buggy, for example, samsung galaxy

s6 has 5.1″ inch screen, but some phones like

iphone 6 with 4.7″ inch screen is almost as big

as it(the s6). This might be a problem when

pocketing your phone or trying to put it in a

purse, And you wanted a big screen phone. So

next time, you might want to check this out.

7. Phone Weight

Some phones can break floyd mayweather

HEAVYWEIGHT record, an example is one injoo

(or whatever the name is) phone I held, it was

what I call HEAVY, unlike the iPhone that’s like

paper. Weight becomes a problem when you

carry your phone about especially without a

bag, in your pockets whereby a heavy phone

could draw your trousers down, or make your

hands hurt while just holding it. You could

actually use some heavy phones to build your

muscles (just exaggerating). So when next

you’re shopping, try to lift the phone up for a

few seconds and see if you are comfortable

with it.

8. Internal Memory (Android Phones Only)

If I you were to see the specifications of some

phone, you would see 16gb internal memory, if

Samsung tells you that, believe it. If Tecno tells

you that, go and check the phone first! Now

most phones especially the new brands and so

called affordable phones, separates the actually

internal memory from phones memory, with

popular brands, these memory are joined

together. Example is my fly era nano 8. The

phone specification reads 4gb internal, well, the

actual internal memory is 1GB, and it has a

phone memory of 4GB. The internal memory is

where the operating system and pre installed

apps are, also with android there are some

apps that can only stay in the internal memory,

example are Whatsapp and BBM, and all

primary app data stays in the internal memory,

so it then get full sometimes, you get

notifications that your memory is full, but can

see more that enough space in your Phone

memory, this is because the phone memory act

like an in-built SD card. Not internal memory.

But most phone would not write how big the

actual internal memory is, but would write is as

the phone memory or just write 4GB Rom. If

you are the type that installs a lot of apps and

updates all apps even stock apps, this is going

to be a Big MIGHTY problem, the negative

results creates an endless list. Its like having a

limited memory phone with no SD card slot. So

next time you on the verge to get a new phone,

I would advice you pick one with a real internal

memory, and real size of above 2GB. Or else

go check out the phones actual internal

memory size. By going to settings>>memory.

Don’t just read 16GB rom and relax.