New Mobile Needed

pmartin86

Right, so my well used and well battered Galaxy S5 has come end of life, one drop too many and the internal Gyro has now given up the ghost (Along with a dodgy camera lens and a cracked screen, repairs are just not worth the effort now)

I'm looking for a replacement in the £300 (Or less) range. I require a decent sized screen, around the 5inch mark, reasonable component specs, at least equal to the S5 (I use my phone heavily, work use, games, onenote, fitness tracker, satnav, media player etc). It also needs to have either large internal storage (64gb+) or the ability to take at least a 64gb Micro SD card. Other than another S5 (Which id be happy with) anyone got any recommendations?

Paul

victor2

LG G4?
Got OH a G3 early in the year to replace her Galaxy S3 and she's pretty happy with it.
G4 specs look good - takes a memory card, so capacity for loads of storage to supplement its 32GB.
Camera is great. Thinking of getting a wireless charger for the G3 to make life that little bit easier.
Only downside is I have noticed it doesn't seem to have such a good antenna as the S3. She gets signal dropout on calls where she didn't used to before (T-Mobile network). Not a serious problem though.

I_have_spoken

Microsoft Lumia 950

movilogo

Moto G4 Plus. £199 on Amazon. Comes with dual SIM version too.

dipsomaniac

movilogo wrote: »

Moto G4 Plus. £199 on Amazon. Comes with dual SIM version too.

looks a great phone for the money. only downside is no nfc = no android pay

Fightsback

dipsomaniac wrote: »

looks a great phone for the money. only downside is no nfc = no android pay

Consider the Moto X Play which does have NFC for an extra £30 (or less)

http://www.androidcentral.com/five-months-moto-x-plays-marshmallow-update-makes-it-phone-worth-considering

http://www.motorola.com/we/products/moto-x-play

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Microsoft Lumia 950

Comes with free bag of lemons.

spannerzone

Fightsback wrote: »

Consider the Moto X Play which does have NFC for an extra £30 (or less)

http://www.androidcentral.com/five-months-moto-x-plays-marshmallow-update-makes-it-phone-worth-considering

http://www.motorola.com/we/products/moto-x-play



Comes with free bag of lemons.

I have a Moto X Play and it's pretty decent for the price, note it does not have a gyroscope which the OP mentioned (so maybe required?)

Paradigm

One plus 3. £309.
My boy has had his for about 3 weeks & it's a pretty impressive bit of kit, easily as good as my HTC one M8.


Specs here http://www.gsmarena.com/oneplus_3-7995.php

GT60

Another vote for the One +3
it now has regular updates which I believe was an issue in the past but now with the updates it is on parr with the S7 and the I phone
My son is hankering after one so I have done some research on it


https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5480592

Fightsback

spannerzone wrote: »

I have a Moto X Play and it's pretty decent for the price, note it does not have a gyroscope which the OP mentioned (so maybe required?)

Good point, missed that bit. However on the plus side compared to the one plus three it does have a sd slot (I won't buy a phone without one) and a large 3600mAh battery (1+3= 3000mAh).

Jivesinger

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Microsoft Lumia 950

My current mobile uses Windows Phone, and I probably will end up getting another Lumia with Windows 10 on it.

But that's partly because I'm perverse.

I think they're good phones and the OS is pretty good these days (although I believe the first Windows 10 Mobile versions were a bit flaky). The 950 has a good camera, I believe. Also I've more faith that Windows 10 will be kept up to date with security patches compared to Android, and while Apple does issue updates, they're quite pricey.

But the number of Windows 10 apps is very limited, and companies which you might want to interact with, only develop Windows 10 versions of their apps as an afterthought, if at all.