22 September 2012

Good Android Phones with Small Displays

People with iPhones go on about how small screens are great. One of my friends purchased an iPhone 4S outright for close to $1000 and claimed that he didn't mind getting a phone with a small display because it fits well in his hands. He claimed that the 4S's 3.5 inch display is the perfect size and that high-end Android phones all had large screens that don't fit in your pocket. Android phones with small screens were not "high-end" enough for him like the iPhone was.

First of all, not all Android phones have large screens. The Samsung Galaxy Ace has a 3.5 inch screen, just like the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4. Furthermore, who said the iPhone was ever a high-end phone? The iPhone 4 has a 800Mhz single-core processor with 0.5GB RAM, and the Galaxy Ace has those exact hardware specifications but comes at half the price. The iPhone 4S has a dual-core 800Mhz processor with 0.5GB RAM. The Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 also has those same hardware specs (but with slightly more RAM at 0.7GB) yet is around half the price of the Apple.

But then lo-and-behold, the iPhone 5 with 4 inch display comes out and all of a sudden my friend gets one and contradicts himself when he says that now he believes that 4 inch is the perfect size. It seems like he is just buying first and rationalising his purchase later.

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