What do you want from a smartphone? Everything, probably. After all, it’s your camera, satnav, email inbox, social media hub, games machine, digital wallet, video viewer and portal to the internet. Oh, and it makes phone calls. Priorities today are different from even a few years ago: big screens are popular, full, edge to edge screens especially. But the desire for good battery life remains unchanged. There are two operating systems to choose from: iOS which runs only on Apple devices like iPhone and iPad and, on the other hand, Android, from Google. Android is the system which every manufacturer other than Apple has now adopted (even companies like Nokia and BlackBerry who previously went their own way). The advantages of iOS include the smooth, seamless way it integrates with Apple products such as your iPad, Mac and the smart HomePod speaker. Android users, however, will find switching from one Android brand to another, say from Huawei to Sony, a painless process, as Google insists on a degree of uniformity for companies using the platform. The move to screens which cover the whole of the front of a phone, or almost, has led to something called “the notch”, a cut-out at… Read full this story
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