Post by Nelson on Dec 3, 2019 14:57:16 GMT
My previous mobile was a Samsung Galaxy S7 which initially was fantastic, holding sufficient batter charge for a good days use, but after 2 years is dramatically declined, as if there is a built in chip, program, whatever, to make it stop working so you are forced to upgrade.
All of a sudden the battery died, it would charge extremely slowly and even after multiple hours of charging to get to 50% perhaps if you even opened the camera app it would drain the battery down to 30% immediately, then once it got down to 17% it just shut down. I would get maybe 20 minutes use of a full charge before it would die on me
I downgraded, if buying a newer model can be seen as a downgrade but not to one of the newer S models, whilst they are no doubt fantastic phones I could not justify £44 a month with very little data allowance. I don't use my phone all that much so I went for one of Samsungs mid range models, their A70.
Big bright screen, as big if not by millimetres bigger than the S10 and I love that. The reason I chose it was at £30pm with 20gb of data on EE and got to keep my number it was perfect for my usage and what I was willing to spend each month, plus a major draw was the large battery. Indeed it's superb, it has fast charging and a full 100% charge will give me well over a days use, even using the phone, errrh as a phone, camera, Instagram uploads etc. it won't get into single digit battery life until very late in the day. But the camera is rubbish, well, not poor rubbish but produces a lot of artificial sharpening and power lines for example can look 'shiny' over exposed and despite a claimed 32mp camera landscape images aren't sharp. Close ups are fairly good but one feature I really miss is the ability not to take long-exposure photos even in Pro mode, I miss taking pics of passing planes and the ISS at night.
In regard to previous posts, battery life does take a quicker drain when I am using EE's 4G whilst away in Wales. I have taken to switching my phone off at night whilst I am away in Wales, I agree that being a distance from a tower does use more power.
All of a sudden the battery died, it would charge extremely slowly and even after multiple hours of charging to get to 50% perhaps if you even opened the camera app it would drain the battery down to 30% immediately, then once it got down to 17% it just shut down. I would get maybe 20 minutes use of a full charge before it would die on me
I downgraded, if buying a newer model can be seen as a downgrade but not to one of the newer S models, whilst they are no doubt fantastic phones I could not justify £44 a month with very little data allowance. I don't use my phone all that much so I went for one of Samsungs mid range models, their A70.
Big bright screen, as big if not by millimetres bigger than the S10 and I love that. The reason I chose it was at £30pm with 20gb of data on EE and got to keep my number it was perfect for my usage and what I was willing to spend each month, plus a major draw was the large battery. Indeed it's superb, it has fast charging and a full 100% charge will give me well over a days use, even using the phone, errrh as a phone, camera, Instagram uploads etc. it won't get into single digit battery life until very late in the day. But the camera is rubbish, well, not poor rubbish but produces a lot of artificial sharpening and power lines for example can look 'shiny' over exposed and despite a claimed 32mp camera landscape images aren't sharp. Close ups are fairly good but one feature I really miss is the ability not to take long-exposure photos even in Pro mode, I miss taking pics of passing planes and the ISS at night.
In regard to previous posts, battery life does take a quicker drain when I am using EE's 4G whilst away in Wales. I have taken to switching my phone off at night whilst I am away in Wales, I agree that being a distance from a tower does use more power.