Recent content by chrisjk

I have tried protective cases and don't like them. I probably seem very picky but I am sticking to my original point - why compromise (actually, completely screw up) an otherwise excellent phone by totally rendering its key premise, USP, or whatever, worthless. It would be akin to selling a...

Planned obsolescence may well be part of the answer but I suspect a larger part is that it is marketing departments who determine the key characteristics that the product should have and don't care that other aspects are compromised to achieve their goals. But you are right - if one of the slew...

Of course I realise that but I value what a phone can do, way above what a dedicated Garmin can do - I have had plenty of those. I accept compromise, I just feel that the rugged phone makers have made entirely the wrong choices in the way they have compromised. For example, what sort of user...

One of the great aspects of smartphones and Android based phones in particular, is the way in which hardware and apps can be mixed and matched to suit so many people’s requirements. But this flexibility comes at a price to both manufacturers and customers/consumers. The former cannot devote...