What do you look for in a smartphone?

@BrendanMays I must be getting older than I thought, but has whether a phone is suitable to be a phone, eg can make and hold a call appropriately only valued at 10% of the modern criteria ? There is not even text to describe that aspect of the testing. It appears that everything evaluated is “ancillary fluff” as compared to the basic purpose of can it make and hold a call.

I have a Moto Gv2 that does better as a phone than my previous Samsung S4 Mini. My partner has an Oppo R9 (not tested) that anecdotally seems to leave the Moto for dead across the board of features, performance, and tactile goodness – fortunately I get her hand-me-downs when she upgrades :slight_smile: But if we want the best phone, not the best pocket computer, which is it?

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