Avoid these mistakes while buying new phone – best smartphone buying guide 2023

Tired of looking for your type phone and getting frustrated with tons of phones in your budget.

Can’t decide which phone to buy for yourself.

Let’s not waste any more time and check out the things you need to know while buying new smartphone. Best Smartphone buying guide.

Smartphone buying guide list

1.  Processor

Isn’t its frustrating when you try to open an app and the phone gets hanged or the app is taking so much time to load.

Yes, it is. The main reason for this is slow processor in your phone.

Today in 2023 we need fast processors for everything.

We know about 2 popular brands making processor for multiple smartphone brands.

 1. Snapdragon 2. Mediatek

Till 2023 Snapdragon made so many all-rounder processors and Mediatek was also one competitor for Snapdragon.

Remembered? old “Micromax Unite 2” this phone was so great that it was the golden time for Micromax on its launch.

This phone had Mediatek processor and 480p display and 2GB Ram. This phone was a beast on that time you can play every game you wish on this phone on its time.

But after that we saw no good Mediatek smartphone or Good Mediatek Processor.

But after Mediatek G95 launch on September 2020. Mediatek was on field again with so many great processors after 2020.

Snapdragon now have 3 series of processors –

1. 6 series,

2. 7 series,

3. 8 series

1. 6 series:

Budget series of Snapdragon Processor. Ex. 675, 685, 695

Snapdragon 695 have Antutu Score of 404216.

2. 7 series:

The battery efficient medium performance Snapdragon Processor. This series have two different types of processors. 1. G series and 2. Non-G series.

1.    G series:

You can say gaming series. Its mainly gaming centric means more powerful for games and apps. This processor is more powerful than Non-G series and as based on less nm its more battery efficient. Ex. – 720G, 730G, 778G.

Snapdragon 778G have Antutu Score of 532507.

2.    Non-G series:

Less powerful than G series and this series is old and less battery efficient as made on higher nm. Ex. – 710, 730, 765.

Snapdragon 765 have Antutu Score of 340689.

3.   8 series:

The most powerful and best processor of Snapdragon.

It can perform every task with ease and as fastest it is more power consuming and least battery efficient.

Want to do heavy multitasking, gaming and work all together with no lag this is the processor for you.

The best performer for you. Ex. – 888, 888+, 8+ gen 1.

Snapdragon 8+ gen 1 have Antutu Score of 1108209.

Mediatek also made so many series of processors every series have its own power.

1. Helio G Series
2. Dimensity 900 Series
3. Dimensity 1000 Series
4. Dimensity 8000 Series
5. Dimensity 9000 Series

1.   Helio G Series:

Released on 2019 and the best low-end processors.

As I have mentioned G95 its one of the best processors in low end phones.

Antutu Score of this processor is 341625.

Recent processors of this series are – Helio G96, Helio G96, Helio G99.

Mediatek Helio G99 have Antutu Score of 370631.

2.   Dimensity 900 Series

This processor is more powerful and battery efficient than 900 Series.

The latest Dimensity 900 Series processors – Dimensity 920, Dimensity 930.

Mediatek Dimensity 920 have Antutu Score of 494566.

3.   Dimensity 1000 Series

This processor is more powerful and battery efficient than 900 Series.

The latest Dimensity 1000 Series processors – Dimensity 1100, Dimensity 1200, Dimensity 1300.

Mediatek Dimensity 1300 have Antutu Score of 705733.

4.   Dimensity 8000 Series

This is the flagship series from Mediatek. Best for anything.

Ex. – 8000, 8100.

Mediatek Dimensity 8100 have Antutu Score of 786703.

5.   Dimensity 9000 Series

The most recent series from Mediatek and more powerful than Dimensity 8000 Series.

Ex. – 9000, 9000+.

Mediatek Dimensity 9000 plus have Antutu Score of 1105960.

2.  Ram

You opened WhatsApp and then camera. You clicked some photos and then go back to WhatsApp and then you are seeing WhatsApp is taking so long time to load.

It’s so frustrating. The main reason for this is slow ram or low ram.

While buying phones you get lots of option in choosing Ram.

Like 4GB ram mobile, 6GB ram mobile, 8GB ram mobile and more.

Day by day ram usage is increasing even 6gb ram is not enough for android 12.

Now You will see two types of ram 1. DDR4 and 2. DDR5

1.   DDR4

            This is old ram and slower than others. Its good for normal usage like facebook, whatsapp, spreadsheet. But if you use this in gaming expect lag, freezes and more issues in Heavy Gaming.

2.   DDR5

This is newest ram now. If you are thinking for heavy gaming and multitasking take this ram. Its little costlier than DDR4 but its worthy.

Also remember Ram frequency matters a lot. Higher is always better in this.

3.  Storage

You are recording videos on 4k. And you see your storage is full.

Or you are installing apps then you see your storage is full and need to uninstall apps.

It’s a lot frustrating.

You will have some options while choosing storage – 64GB, 128GB, 256GB and more.

Today if you take 64GB of storage mostly you will run out of space every month.

Now you should take 128GB storage or more.

It will be ready for future and have lots of space even you install so many apps and games.

Storage Speed

            We see on storage eMMC and UFS.

1.eMMC

            This storage is older. You can say HDD of speed you can get in this.

2.UFS

            This is the latest storage type in smartphone. It is a lot faster than eMMC you can expect tons of data transfer in minutes.

If you are going for gaming or less loading time take UFS storage type and you will mostly enjoy it.

4.  Battery

Running out battery fast? Charging battery while using phone?

Your battery must be weak now.

Now mobiles use too much battery as so many system apps running on background.

You should get 4000mAh or more battery today.

If u think battery is draining faster.

You can check battery usage in battery settings.

If it shows red marker then your battery needs replacement.

And your phone needs a reset.

Now we get two types of battery 1. Normal charging, 2. Fast charging

1.Normal charging

Its old and too slow to charge.

2.Fast Charging

These batteries come in different variants like quick charge, vooc charge, and many more.

While buying fast charging check 2 or more-battery charging test of that phone.

So will have idea of the truth of the battery charging speed of that phone.

Remember company stated battery charging rate can be so less.

Expect some more minutes than company’s stated battery charging rate.

Ex. 15 minutes 50% charge claimed by Company.

            Expect 17-18 minutes 50% charge for real usage.

5.  Camera

Remember unrealistic coloured, blurry and unstable photos.

This happens due to bad camera sensors.

You can find two company making camera sensor – 1. Samsung, 2. Sony

Both brands have unmatched camera sensors in smartphones.

Sometime you won’t even notice a difference in both company’s sensors.

Now you will ask difference between 48MP, 64MP, 108MP cameras.

The way companies advertise it is not the way you will use it.

Suppose you bought a 48MP camera phone and you are clicking picture.

There will be a 48MP mode which only takes photos with 48MP sensor.

And this mode takes time to take photos and process the photos.

You don’t need to zoom all the time in the photos.

And stability is must in this mode or the photo will be blurry.

But still, you will need higher MP camera for some photos like a big scenery which have so many pixels and you need accurate details.

Of course, it’s the time to use this sensor.

Now how to know which camera is better?

I will always say look for camera samples from websites like 91mobiles.com

You need same images using different phones.

And this website provides the raw images taken from phone.

And similar photos on other phones too.

They also post review about phones.

6.  Connectivity

Remember when transferring some apps, games and photos using WIFI/ Bluetooth it takes so much time.

This is due to old WIFI and Bluetooth version.

Right now, the best WiFi version is WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2

Also, there is new versions for WiFi its WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3

Newer versions have much stronger and longer connectivity with other devices.

7.Display

Right now, there are 3 types of displays – IPS, Amoled and Oled

If you are thinking for color accuracy on your phone take IPS.

If you want to watch movies and mainly use for gaming take Amoled.

Oled panel is best in everything you can do color accuracy works like photo editing, do watch movies and play games with the best colour accuracy possible.

FAQ

Conclusion

Recommendation:

            Take atleast CPU over 300k Antutu Score with 8GB Ram if you are planning to use Android 12 and atleast 128GB of storage and more than 4000mAh battery with liquid cooling if you’re planning to play games on phone.

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