So it’s been a while since I updated my phone. My first phone was a Motorola, a Sharp clamshell, then a Nokia n79, then an Asus Zenphone 2, Zenphone 6 and now Zenphone 10.
Of these, my favorite was the Nokia: swappable batteries, easy to access the slots, memory card space, and it even had an on-phone message answering system thanks to Symbian and a wonderful app. It was great because all the spam callers got charged $$$ for the phone call, only to find out that I had set up a ‘fake’ message as answering the call. Can’t do that on ANY phone now!
Due to the variously graded functionality along the way, the Zenphone 6 was dumber than the Zenphone 2. But they both could carry additional memory card space. Now the Zenphone 10 doesn’t have that slot. But the internal space is generous enough that I don’t particularly need the internal space. These three phones are basically all dual-SIM phones, which is still something iPhones CAN’T do properly yet.
Along the way, I’ve had several low cost Nokia as additional phones, and bought three or for phones for the wife: a Panasonic, HTC, then Zenphone 8. There may have been one more. But each time the wife swore she would never use it. In fact, the Panasonic she barely used.
She didn’t object too much on my purchasing a mini-Ipad for her, but that’s where she found LINE and her online raison-d’etre. But once apps came along on the HTC, she was hooked. The Zenphone is rarely out of her hands. It’s a good model.