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Mark T. B. Carroll ([personal profile] mtbc) wrote2016-07-28 06:07 pm

Cellphone purchase

Miranda will soon be starting secondary school, in Perth rather than our village, so now is the time to buy her a cellphone.

I have been happy with my first smartphone, a Moto E running Android, apart from the significant problem that since the upgrade from KitKat to Lollipop it has had space barely sufficient for updates to system applications (which must be on the internal storage) regardless of what extra I may wish to add. I am now at the point where I get warnings like could not add widget because I have had to disable so much to keep the cellphone usable. (I am not leaving apps running without their updates.)

So, should I just stay with the devil I know but aim for double the internal storage? I am open to counterproposals, especially if not-Android may not entail large internally stored updates.

Update: I am leaning toward the Alcatel Pop 4.
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[personal profile] emperor 2016-07-28 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm vaguely thinking of trying a Free Android version (e.g. f-droid) for my next smartphone, but I don't think I'd recommend that to the general user :)