Mobile Phones, How to Find a Good Deal
Buying a phone, these days can be rather confusing at times due to the number of options available. You can buy a phone almost anywhere these days. If you go to a mall, you will find at least one shop selling mobile phones.
The Brands
Nowadays, smartphones are made by many companies, the most 
popular of which are Apple and Samsung. However, there are also many others that manufacture smartphones like HTC, Sony, LG, Nokia and Motorolla not to forget the countless Chinese brand phones.
From the brands mentioned above, many people want to go for a well known and reliable brand like Samsung or Apple. These shoppers often go to the local phone store and buy a phone. They do not do any research to find where they can get the best deal.
Getting a Phone for free with a contract
In the UK, many mobile phone network operators will give you a smartphone for free as long as you sign a contract with them for a predetermined term. At the end of the term, the phone is yours, and you have not really paid much. You can get a decent smartphone for anything from GBP 12 per month. This monthly payment will include calls minutes, SMS’s and data services. Many people may not have to pay any more unless they are heavy users.
How to choose
Depending on your requirements you can select a phone that has just been released and has top specs or one that has medium specs. What you must remember is that the value of these smartphones depreciate very quickly due to the manufacturers coming out with more advanced models on a regular basis. If you want to get one of these phones you should contact a contact a cellular network provider and ask them what’s available and what the contract terms will be.
Remember there is no need to get a high-end smartphone if you are not going to use all its features. Conversely, if you are a person who relies on their phone for business and personal use and will take full advantage of these powerful devices, you should go for the recent high-end models.
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and they offer so much more in terms of hardware at similar or lesser price points than Apple. Apple gained the initial advantage in terms of smooth user experience thanks to its refined OS while it took time for Samsung to reach that point as Android evolved itself over a period. Now both Apple and Samsung are bringing in new features such as fingerprint scanner or curved screens to woo the customers. 
Samsung still beats Apple hands down when it comes to pure computing capabilities of its smartphones. Apple doesn’t need that superior computing power due to a much more optimized operating system, however, it doesn’t dilute the fact that Samsung is way ahead of Apple in terms of offering the brute power under the shell of its mobiles. Apple does have some tricks up its sleeves with features such as fingerprint scanner and 3D touch. However, Samsung does offer unique hardware features such as curved screen (in Edge phones) and stylus (Note series). The quality of display offered by Samsung is also superior to Apple, both in terms of sharpness of the screen and in terms of the size of its phones. Apple has realized the general customer preference for large phones and is now offering bigger screen sizes with iPhone 6 Plus and iPhone 6s Plus. Both manufacturers offer excellent smartphone cameras, and you will not complain using either of them.
The whole ecosystem of Apple products give you an integrated user experience, and it’s a big advantage for Apple lovers. Samsung phones primarily run on Android, which has now evolved into a great operating system. Both Android and iOS offer App stores with an ample number of applications for its users. Android scores over iOS as the OS is less restrictive, and the cost of ownership of Android-based applications is generally low.