It is better to ponder over this question before going to a mobile shop. How do you actually choose a mobile? The first thing you need to confirm is the reason why you need a mobile phone. With the increasing number of a variety of mobile users, the mobile companies will give you different mobile phones which suit the tastes of random characters. All you need to do is choose a mobile phone that well suits your needs. Some mobiles are built to give you a good music experience while some others give you a good internet speed. With so many types and varieties of mobiles and mobile companies it makes you get even more confused over how you can shoose a mobile phone that best suits your needs. With so many options available you need to first decide the reason for buying a mobile. The question isn’t ‘how to choose a mobile’; it is ‘why do you want a mobile’. If you need a mobile just for calling someone or messaging on the go you do not need a high-fi mobile phone whose applications will never be used by you. You will simply be wasting your money trying to buy a smart phone which does not help you much with your purpose of buying a phone.
Always keep the following things in mind before choosing to buy a mobile phone:
• If you want to use your mobile phone as a walkman in order to keep yourself connected with music 24x7, you need to choose the walkman series mobile phones from any brand. These mobiles are specially built to give you good music performance. Mind you, the advanced cutting edge technology adopted in the modern mobiles has now made 3D surround sound flowing from the mobile earphones into your ears. In case you are not satisfied with the output quality of the sound try it with a different earphone from a reputed earphone company before choosing to buy a mobile phone. Do test the sound quality before buying it. Some earphones will not work properly with the driver of your mobile phone. So it is best to ask your friend if he has a good quality earphone (like the ones provided by Bose and Creative) and test the mobile phone with it before choosing to buy it.
• The phones with a well laid out QWERTY keypad with EDGE and CDMA2000 support are purely business phones and are mostly used as PDA’s and for live mobile conferences. You need not choose one if you do not want a PDA with a high end 3G mobile connection.
• If you want 3G internet connectivity, choose a mobile phone which supports CDMA and EGPRS (also called as EDGE) technology. This boosts the performance of the mobile thus yielding you a greater internet browsing experience.
• Always ask the vendor to show all the mobiles that fall under a price range. This will give you various options to choose from. Many a time we choose a mobile and buy it, and when we see another funky looking set with great features lying within the same price tag in our friend’s hand, we awe ourselves for buying a stupid mobile phone which gives us no space to express ourselves.
• Choose a mobile phone which is a bit funky looking. Always make it a point to roam at least three to four mobile shops before choosing and buying a mobile phone. Take a look at the price tags of the same mobile at various places. This will ensure that you do not get cheated by any mobile vendor. A mobile can no doubt be bought at a price much cheaper than what you could possibly think of. Always choose to buy a mobile at a few hundred bucks less than the price set by the vendor. A bargain to achieve a discount will not hurt the vendor. The best option is to choose and buy a mobile form a good branded showroom.
• Always take a look into the technical details of a mobile on the internet before choosing to buy one. Do not forget to check for complaints that are logged against the mobile. Complaints if any should pop up into the starting ten pages in the search results of Google. You can try searching for “mobile name”+“bugs” in the search box. Use various synonyms and try to find out if the users using the particular mobile model are facing any problems with the functions of the mobile phone before choosing to buy it.
• Never forget to ask for the warranty and guarantee certificates. Some vendors avoid giving these. Do insist that you want one or else leave the shop right away.
• A China mobile will not have warranty or guarantee of any sort in a country other than China. Choose these cutting edge technology equipped mobiles only if you can maintain it properly.
• Touch screen technology equipped mobiles are a boon as well as a bane so be careful before choosing to buy a touch-screen enabled mobile phone. If on one a capacitive touch screen responds faster to a finger touch, it also makes it difficult for you to scroll through a list of songs or any other menu on the other hand. Choose mobiles which have a separate scrolling button near the edge to help you scroll through the menus. Resistive touch screens demand you to apply more pressure to make it work and are not as sensitive as the capacitive touch screen mobile phones. But scrolling without a scroll button near the edges is much easier in them. Do remember that capacitive touch screens do not work with all styluses. The stylus in a capacitive touch screen mobile is a good conductor of electricity and hence cannot be replaced by a plastic stylus. On the other hand a resistive touch screen can work with any stylus. Capacitive touch screens will not allow you to place any available protection cover on its surface other than the costly and thin good conducting metallic protective layer. A resistive touch screen mobile will adjust with any protective cover. It is always a good idea to avoid using a stylus in a resistive touch screen to scroll through the menu. This will leave harsh scratches on the protective layer. Be careful before choosing a mobile with touch screen. Touch screen mobiles are made to make internet browsing an evergreen experience.
• Make sure that the navigation keys are convenient to use before buying your mobile. If you are a SMS addict choose mobile with larger number keys. QWERTY keyboard is good only if it comes sliding out as in Nokia N97. If it is adjusted below the screen of a bar shaped mobile using the keypad is generally a pain in the neck if you have short fingers.
• If you want a mobile phone with a good camera you should and must choose to buy a Sony Erricson mobile phone. Time has proved that these mobile phones deliver the best cameras which give good and crisp photographs of excellent quality. The same holds good if you want to buy a good walkman mobile phone.
That being said, choosing the right mobile is still in your hands. Preventing mobile hacking is another issue which has to be pondered over depending on which you can choose the mobile phone you want with a robust operating system. Do not let any opportunity make you repent for choosing a mobile which did not give you something that you wanted the most. If you have any suggestions for others to help them choose a better mobile the comments section is open for one and all.
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