Recent content by blootvoet

All people don't have the means to be as comfortable as you seem to be. It seems as if the bulk of the global population, and how we survive, will never be understood by a few privileged ones. Both my "very smartphones" were gifts as I am disabled because of disability arising from a career...

It is less hurtful when you are disabled and a cheap phone fails; but my cheap ones never failed and the pukka smartphones all did, so i disgaree with you, based not on opinion but hard experience.

Chips don't become slower or weaker but the operating system and other software become bloated, taking more processing power and that is why devices slow down. It is true that batteries lose capacity but this has very little effect on lower capacity phones.

When my iPhone5 was brand new, it's power button failed within days and it took Apple five weeks to fix it. My $35 Alcatal One Touch Pop 2 was a way better phone and also a great mifi hotspot. I sold the iPhone. I now have an octa core metal bodied paper weight with a permanently black...