Re: WC 150K Post Challenge - You Ready?!
So here are a few random thoughts after a trip in Best Buy, messing with some unlocked phones:
1) I can see why people think the Honor 5X is good value for money. Seemed fast enough, liked the construction and the camera seemed OK. I'm sure the 5C is still a better buy though as a newer model. $200 does one pretty nice.
2) Nexus 6P is a tall phone. Like the premium feel but as to where I an now, I wouldn't buy this. I can see the appeal of the fingerprint scanner and the dual speakers and the vanilla Android...but it's missing microSD expansion for me and I think they could have fit a 6" screen in there with smaller speakers like what Sony did with the Z2/Z5 design. They wouldn't have sounded as nice, but hey...the damn phone is tall. Looks nice in gold.
3) I really like the look and feel of the Z5 Compact. The design doesn't feel as sharp in hand as it's a smaller phone. The fingerprint reader placement is greaf and that volume button placement is horrid...no, atrocious. On a smaller phone like this, I can slide it up in my big mitts and get buy, but on a Z5 proper or Z5P, or the X series...no. Felt like the Sony engineers went to a meeting run by my supervisor when they decided on the volume button placement. I get the idea behind it, but the execution is no bueno.
4) I was so impressed by the Z5C, I'd almost get one...and then I saw how much better the Z3C design was and how at $400 brand new, this thing is typical Sony - overpriced. I'd do this at $280 right now, preferably the international model with the functional fingerprint reader. I wasn't a fan of the screen of the Z5C, but id tolerate it at this price point.
5) I don't like the G5 in this Titan grey color as much as i like the silver. I've seen a pink one and it looks OK, and the gold looks OK, but the best color for me is the silver. Problem is, the one I want they don't have it in the silver trim at the price I want.
6) Something about the G5's screen I don't like either. Maybe with a different wallpaper it looks better, but I liked the look of the G4's screen more.
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