6 Disadvantages of Owning an Expensive Smartphone

No.5 lang totoo dito, yung iba eh kahit midrange ganyan din, lalo sa mga snatcher at magnanakaw mapa midrange or high end yan basta maganda itsura eh kukunin na

I agree lalo na sa No 5. Another problem is you when the successor come, the price of your expensive phone will drastically decrease that you’ll say “sayang”

I always go for the midrange phones. Great for watching videos too and I noticed that some companies target the midrangers for increasing the battery longevity and memory storage unlike flagships where they focus only for higher benchmarks.

Choose midrange phones. Consider it as “Jack of all Trades”. It just works.

Yah all of them are true,but its also depend on the person, i mean my point is, its ok to buy an expensive one but make sure you use it for a long time,my first smartphone was LUMIA 800 i used it from august 2012 until september this year and I bought a new one, of course its a flagship phone IPHONE 6S Plus 64 gb, although i have this but for me it will last for a long years before i change my phone.

Kaya dapat bumili ka ng phone na dapat sulit ang pera mo, buy wisely wagpapadala sa marketing stunts ng phone company mapa midrange man yan or high end, midrange nga pero sirain namin and madami issues pero maganda ang price, high end nga kaso madalas mag lag

Sa price range ng smartphones, wala naman talagang ligtas sa mga snatcher dahil kahit 500 ay mabebenta nila ang mga low range phones. Ang dapat gawin e damihan ang pulis at cctv sa city tulad sa davao at japan. Kahit maiwan mo ang iphone mo sa tokyo ay walang magiinteres doon. Isusurrender pa sa police station at mababalik sayo.

Regarding No. 5,

There is a grammar Issue: Dangling or Misplaced modifier.

“Losing a really expensive smartphone is hard to replace”

If you don’t believe me, try translating that to Filipino.

Consider changing the sentence to:

“A lost expensive smartphone is hard to replace”

or

“Replacing a lost expensive smartphone is never easy”

#2. Sometimes its kinda funny. you buy this latest fone and brag how thin it is, how light and uses gorilla glass 23 yet you put bulky and heavy casing and add screen protector or tampered glass. now its as thick and heavy as those 75% cheaper. :)

I bought the,N70, N73, N80, 5800, N8, Lumia 1020 and finally just last week the Lumia 950XL-DS. All true. But I before purchasing anything I do “pros and cons”.
Always. I am a relative thinker. I consider what if I need it or desire it or just plain want it. If it is only for spoiling myself or a necessity for the feature. Notice the years between each phone. I got two 1020s. The first one was damaged beyond repair. I know 950XL was coming out but camera is a necessity for me (i DON’T use them for selfies). An easy point and shoot with an awesome camera which doubles as an office PC is what i go for.

I always get new phone from my ninang, and we have a car so pickpockets really never occurred. Even when I go to school by commuting I just have to be cautious of my surroundings to be safe or better if we won’t show it off. In contrast to what you say, people who have midrange phones are the one who usually shows it off. So don’t say that we buy it for us to look cool.

I’d still buy a premium smartphone because for the most part they DON’T CUT CORNERS and negatively affect the performance in all aspects of the smartphone.

Case in point: My Galaxy Note 3 and LG G Pro 2 (both Snapdragon 800, 3GB RAM, 5.0) were the premium smartphones when they were first released, and run BETTER than any of the new midrange and even “budget flagship” phones, even the 4/64 Zenfone 2 “Samsung killer!” In gaming and general use, Zenfone lags in even the small things. No lag in both Korean phones! And the camera is just better on the Note than the Zenfone. Also, developer community support gravitates towards flagships and premium services (this is why the Note 5 has already ROMs aplenty when the Lenovo K3 Note has very few.)

There’s just a sense of quality with a tier one device (even from a few years ago) compared to the cheaper phones that are nothing more than to balance corporate checkbooks.

I like buying flagship phones after a year or two of its release, because their prices not only dropped, but they continue to be:
1. Supported by the manufacturer and online community when it comes upgrades.
2. Accessories are still out there and are cheaper because they new flagship had flooded the stores.
3. It is still brand new and the design and features are not that outdated.
4. Did I mention they are a lot cheaper specially if you buy them cash?
I plan to buy either the S6 or S6 Edge a few months after S7 comes out. Imagine getting that same phone which is now 25-30k at probably 15-18k. You just have to be patient.

Number 6 is the truest of the true. Considering the performance difference between the most expensive smartphones on the market and the 10k+ php mid-range ones, the only real reason to go for the expensive ones is because they’re the “top of the line.”

Bigger numbers on paper, miniscule increase in performance notwithstanding. So the moment something new comes along with an even *bigger* number, there goes your justification for getting the expensive ones over the mid-range ones.