Which phone would you rather have?

[mightyfacundo]

Choice #1:
The best looking phone you can imagine with "average" specs (5.5" Super Amoled 1080 screen, Snapdragon 810, 3000 mAh, good but not great camera, 32GB Internal, 4 GB RAM, and all the basic necessities that every phone has).

Or

Choice #2:
The fugliest, thickest, and likely heaviest phone you can imagine but with your dream specs (4K, 5.7" screen, Snapdragon 850, 5000 mAh battery, the best camera ever seen in a smartphone, 128 GB Internal, 8 GB RAM, and all of the other bells and whistles that make the phone as future proof as possible). I know your dream specs might be different so go with yours.

Just a hypothetical question for the masses to see what the preference is. Thanks.

 

[SpookDroid]

Just like with most things in life, I'd go for neither... I'd prefer something in the middle. But your 'basic' hypothetical has way too much RAM for a 'basic' phone hehe

 

[Aquila]

Neither of those two. There's a balance of form and function required to make a device attractive; I lean towards function to an extent, but I want a clean looking device with great audio, great display QUALITY (4K isn't important), great battery life (don't care about mAh as long as the battery life is there), no lag and fully up to date with the latest firmware and security updates. Just about everything else doesn't matter, because performance the user sees is more important than the tools under the hood required to produce the results. With the caveat that what's under the hood does need to be future proof enough for the people that keep phones for a year or two.

 

[mightyfacundo]

I think we would all prefer a combination of the two, but that wasn't the choice. I'm curious to see which you would choose if these were the only 2 phones available for you to choose between.

 

[Aquila]

I think we would all prefer a combination of the two, but that wasn't the choice. I'm curious to see which you would choose if these were the only 2 phones available for you to choose between.

Drat. You figured out my plan! Ok, between the two, the bells and whistles.

 

[mightyfacundo]

Drat. You figured out my plan! Ok, between the two, the bells and whistles.

Lol. Thanks!

 

[ttenpas]

I would take the one that fits in my pocket.

 

[mightyfacundo]

I would take the one that fits in my pocket.

And assuming they both fit in your pocket?

 

[ttenpas]

Since # 2 is the "thickest, and likely heaviest phone you can imagine" it would definitely not fit in my pocket, so I'd choose #1. I don't really care what the phone looks like and I'm not a spec snob, but I do care about having a phone that's easy to carry with me and use with 1 hand.

 

[Matty]

Option 1: best looking phone with average specs. Rather look at something beautiful.

A droid a day keeps the Apple away

 

[boss.king]

The "average" phone doesn't sound that bad, it's pretty much a OnePlus Two. I'd probably take that over an unwieldy brick of a phone simply. If I didn't have to have it forever and could upgrade to a future average phone down the track, it becomes a really easy choice.

 

[anon(9072051)]

As they say in bars, "Go ugly early." Ugly you can cover with a case. And my dream specs wouldn't require a phone to be significantly bigger or heavier than the Nexus 6 anyway. Which ain't heavy; it's my baby.

 

[mru007]

I would go for a 'balanced' option, in between the two options you suggested.
Here are my views:
1) The phone should fit in my pocket.
2) I should be able to make calls from that phone (obviously, 'lol' is expected for this point )
3) The display should be at least 5.5 Inch which can go up to max. 5.8 inch (that's it, no less & no more than this range).
4) It should have at least 64 GB of internal storage with expandable storage as an option. (Or 128 GB internal with no expandable storage is fine).
5) RAM should be at least 4 GB; more RAM is ok-ish but not at all necessary.
6) It should be ergonomically easy to use, feel good in the hand & look premium & catchy (not expecting some diamond, jewels studded body & all that weird fairy tale aesthetics).
7) It should be dust & water resistant (since we are into that transformation now & it is obviously an advantage over other phones )
8) It should have a stylus integrated withing the phone with intelligent functions, that will utilize the big display of the device to it's top-most limit & thereby improving productivity.

Conclusion: You may already have the idea by now which phone suits my description

 

[Ove Engvik]

Choice 2 (I have pockets that can fit large phones)

 

[Morty2264]

I'd go with Choice #1; as 5.5" and a "basic but good" experience is kind of what I go for. Not that the Nexus 5 had bad specs IMO, but it was an awesome phone for its time and was severely underrated... And that is kind of what I thought about when I read your Choice #1, OP. I'm not a huge fan of phablet phones that are bulky and clunkly. I like a phone that is big enough that I can watch Netflix; but small enough that it will fit in my pocket or my purse compartment. I guess I'm not super into all the new bells and whistles, either - I'm one of the rare-ish phone geeks who are perfectly okay with snagging last year's flagship because they will save money and still get a lot of great features.

 

[Tim1954]

Lol! I'll go with fugly!!

 

[brankestein]

Number two. No doubt about it! I'll go for lovely specs any day. It's nice if a phone looks good, or great, or awesome, but if I have a phone that can perform better than two dumb 'good looking' phones combined, I'll take that one.

 

[badMojo69]

I just want Windows Phone to live again, but for now IOS will have to do as my daily DD.
I just think it's time to focus on battery life and function over form, so I guess I'd have to go with your #2.

Premium feel is a bunch of...you know what. Most people just slap a case or skin on their phones anyway.

 

[dreamwever]

Definitely choice two. While having an average phone is nice for sleek and convenient use, and when it comes to price. There's a reason commercials front the big, bright, powerhouse phones; people love them and they push the limit of available technology, only to become the 'average' spec only a couple years later. Software and hardware always follow the leading edge.

 

[Tim1954]

Like me, not pretty but functional... Chuckles!