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Used for: Less than a month
Storage you do not have to think about
Half a terabyte means I have stopped deleting photos to make room
Used for: More than a year
Build and screen have lasted
Battery has dropped off badly since a software update
Two stars' worth of grumbling and three stars' worth of phone, so here we are. The titanium frame has worn well and the screen is still flawless, but the battery has fallen off a cliff since the update in the spring and now needs a plug by mid-afternoon on the days I am out and about. The other thing nobody warns you about is the weight. In a shirt pocket it pulls the fabric down all day, and after a year I still notice it when I put an older phone in my hand.
Used for: More than a year
Still the best phone I have owned, and no fuss
Used for: 6–12 months
Bought for my daughter starting sixth form, on the reasoning that a phone she keeps for years works out cheaper than two she does not. She has dropped it twice on paving, both times without a case on because of course, and there is not a mark on the frame. What sold me was the update promise more than any of the camera talk. Whatever handset she has when she leaves for university will still be getting security patches, which is not something I could say about the cheap Android she had before. Her verdict, for what it is worth, is that the photos in a dark cinema queue come out and her friends' do not. Mine is that she has stopped asking to borrow a charger at teatime!
Used for: 3–6 months
The action button is more useful than it sounds
Titanium was the right call over the black, it does not show every mark and the frame feels warmer to hold than the steel one it replaced. The action button gets used for the torch more than anything clever, which is exactly what I wanted from it, though I turned off the double-press first!
Used for: Less than a month
The screen is a huge step up from a small phone
Does not sit comfortably in a small hand
Straight off an SE and the size took some getting used to, but the screen is worth it
Used for: 1–3 months
Rocks on a desk because of the camera bump
Superb phone with one irritation, the camera bump is now so tall it rocks about on a desk when you tap it
Used for: 6–12 months
Low light photos are a different world from my old phone
Too big for one hand and no fingerprint reader at all
Upgraded from an 11 that had done its time and the jump in the camera is the part I keep noticing. Pictures in a dim pub come out looking like the room did rather than an orange smear, and the zoom is usable enough that I have stopped moving my feet. What I would say to anyone with smaller hands: go and hold one first. Mine is at the limit of what I can reach across, and the fingerprint reader everyone asks about simply is not there, so it is your face or a passcode. Still, no regrets. It has been the most solid phone I have owned.
Used for: 6–12 months
Screen and camera are both excellent
Will not see out a working day without a top-up
Hard to be enthusiastic about a phone at this price that still cannot get me to bedtime. On a normal working Tuesday, mail and messages and maybe forty minutes of maps, it is knocking on the twenty per cent warning by seven in the evening, and that is with the screen dimmed and half the notifications turned off. It charges quickly enough on the right plug, which is the saving grace, but you are then tethered to a socket at the point in the day you least want to be. Everything else is as good as everyone says. The screen outdoors is genuinely readable, the camera in a dark restaurant does not fall apart the way my old one did, and it has never once got warm in my hand. I just expected a phone this size to carry a battery to match, and eight months in that has not changed.