10-17-2018, 10:03 AM
I have an iPhone 7. There's nothing the newer phones out there offer that this doesn't that's a must-have feature. The lack of a headphone jack doesn't matter much (it comes with the adapter cable for that anyway, unlike newer iPhones), and the waterproofing is nice. If you don't care for water-proofing, the recently discontinued iPhone SE or iPhone 6 is probably totally fine too.
iPhone is my #1 recommendation for a smart phone as it is solid on the security front and being secure with it is dead simple for any level of user.
If you want to go Android you'll have to be more careful with it, and I wouldn't recommend any Android phone other than what Google offers directly (I think right now their offering is the Pixel line?). Every other vendor loves to load their phones up with junk and more importantly you're on a delayed timeline with updates. Not great as Android is the most popular and targeted OS in the world right now.
Nokia is back on the market making feature phones too if you don't want to go smartphone. Really the only thing I think that makes smartphones a -must have- is built in GPS, though it looks like you can get Google Maps working on the Nokia feature phones if you try hard enough.
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iPhone is my #1 recommendation for a smart phone as it is solid on the security front and being secure with it is dead simple for any level of user.
If you want to go Android you'll have to be more careful with it, and I wouldn't recommend any Android phone other than what Google offers directly (I think right now their offering is the Pixel line?). Every other vendor loves to load their phones up with junk and more importantly you're on a delayed timeline with updates. Not great as Android is the most popular and targeted OS in the world right now.
Nokia is back on the market making feature phones too if you don't want to go smartphone. Really the only thing I think that makes smartphones a -must have- is built in GPS, though it looks like you can get Google Maps working on the Nokia feature phones if you try hard enough.
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""We choose to go to the [Suggestions board] not because it's easy, but because it's hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
- John F. Kennedy"
- gothgirlgangblastermaster
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