Nice response RST. I totally agree. 90% of what's on mobiles is useless rubbish to show off with.
No good for internet (far too tiny), keys are too small for big fingers, my real camera takes vastly better pictures.
Every update reinstalls annoying predictive text for automatic typos just as you send,
OK for emergency calls, that is about it.
...disqgree a bit there.
HTC, which I can't get anymore -no problems with keyboards. When I went to oneplus and went back to the shop saying "what the flip2 with keyboards I was told it's the norm -HTC was just better in every respect, but they don't make phones now. So it's not a smartphone problem for me, just stupid programming.
Actually I'm pretty embarrased to say as someone who progressed from having my own darkroom. I've been DSLR for many years after initially withstanding the tide -but I cannot now argue that the smartphone is embarrasing. Actually I partially retract that -HTC had
embarrasingly good camers on their phones, now they don't do phones I'm struggling with the alternatives -but for 99.9% of the time I can understand why smart phones have become so good at cameras. That said, I just ordered another New Nikon DSLR to play with properly.
...Smartphone updates though are crazy. My HTC phones worked for years, no updates required, just worked perfectly. I wrote a £500 Sony Xperia phone off after 2 months and one update which rendered it useless. I will never "buy" a phone, or a Sony or Ericcson phone product ever again. I can't buy HTC for love nor money these days. Much Like Sony for Laptops! My latest One+ wants to update every week. To be honest the best it was was within 24h of taking it out of the box exept for finding out it didn't have an FM tuner!!!. Every update since has degraded the camera, the alarm function (primary function for me) and the general stability of the phone. I was told it's a hard learning curve for ex-HTC users whereas everyone else was generally used to a lower grade product or expectations from the start. No HTC now so have to get used to the downgrade on the rest of the market.
My One+6 appears to be special though: I have alarms set for xxam -it wakes me up half an hour before with a "notification" that an alarm is set in 30 mins. I can't disable the alarm notification. It also goes through random spells of the alarm ringing just one single time at certain points in the morning, like 04:38 -it only rings for half a second, doesn't coincide with any snooze or alarm patterns and doesn't ring long enough to wake up and work out whats happening, apart from being woken up permanently aferwards but falling asleep again when the real alarm rings. Also, when the alarm does does ring, if I swipe a wrong way it changes the alarm screen to something else -and there's no way to get back to cancel the alarm, so it just rings and rings until it times out. Then it's a mess cancelling previous and current alarms,and randomly it might ring again for half a second inbetween.
I like smart phones, but my One+6 does very bizzare things. The software on it is so bad and nobody can seem to work it out (I work with programming guys). No wonder it wants to update all the time. The software on it is full of bugs and when they fix one they break another. I'll never have another One+ product! Still glad I don't like apples though.