Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Too many Android phones? RANT”.
Hey, what’s up guys mkbhd here back with a video and it’s super bowl weekend thumbs up uh, either way, let’s go ahead and get right started with this one. So there’s been a lot of talk, especially recently uh in the android community and the smartphone community in general, about the frequency of which android phones are released, especially here in the united states. People are actually complaining that there are too many android phones being released. You know just thrown out there from all sorts of carriers and manufacturers all over the place. There are just too many. It’S even been said that, and i quote, there is no right time to buy an android phone. So, of course i dived into this, then i dug really deep into this issue and i found that people mostly have pretty good reasons say. You bought the motorola droid razer on launch day on day, one well couple months later, ces in january, in vegas, and the droid razer max comes out with a much much larger battery as an upgrade to the droid razer. Maybe you were like me and you bought the transformer prime tf201 when it came out well again at ces.
In january, the transformer prime tf 700t came out with an updated design, high resolution front facing camera and a 1080p display atm t and samsung just went completely insane and had a samsung galaxy s2, a samsung galaxy s2 skyrocket and a samsung galaxy s2 skyrocket hd. All within a couple of months, wow, so yeah, there are a lot of android phones out there and that’s gotten people describing maybe three month old, amazing, android phones using almost vague or meaningless words like outdated or just as old phones. So what does this actually mean? So here’s the thing your phone doesn’t just stop working when a new phone comes out, it’s your phone’s not going to just explode or turn into a brick or just leave you, because a newer version of it has been released. Your current phone loses no functionality.
It’S still the awesome phone, it was when you bought it and nothing’s changed nothing’s actually becoming obsolete here, and if you look up the definition of the word obsolete, you’ll, probably agree with me: nothing is actually becoming obsolete. Even when newer devices and technologies are released. Everything that was good about the phone that made you buy. It is still good about that phone now. I think this becomes a little bit clearer to understand when you shift and look at it like cars. Let’S say you bought a brand new ferrari f430.
The day it came out like a boss, a couple months later ferrari puts out the ferrari f430 skidaria, and you see a scuderia driving down the street as you’re in your ferrari and you’re like wow. This makes this feel so outdated. It just feels so old now, but you’re still driving a brand new ferrari same thing with, dare i say it the ladies say this is my girlfriend she’s really hot, just imagine and she’s really good at everything and she’s awesome wow.
Now i think you can see what i mean the real issue, with phones being released, so quickly is development and support, and a word that’s tossed around a lot fragmentation. The development issue is the fact that yeah, these phones are really really different and while they do defer on the outside, they also differ on the inside, and that means that apps that are available on certain phones are not available on certain others, which means that there Are going to be app developers out there not to call anyone lazy but yeah, they’re, going to say screw that screw developing six different versions of my app just to work on the phones out there i’ll just develop one version of my app for the iphone for Support this has been said before. It’S often said that when you buy a first generation device, you’re really beta testing, your device will inevitably get a few updates, maybe even get an os upgrade and maybe get some behind the scenes. Changes like a firmware update, but in the end, it’ll settle down to being the cool, stable, awesome device that you just bought and fragmentation is a word that people like to throw around a lot to describe android. But it really ties back to the development issue where there are yes different devices with say, different screen resolutions, different os versions, different skins on top of them, and that’s really what differentiates them all.
But the bottom line is phone manufacturers are not going to stop making. So many phones sure some random marketing rep from htc may say: oh yeah yeah we’re gon na slow down phones this year for 2012. Less releases really truth. Is these companies live by the quarterly report and they are never going to slow down so much that they make less money than they do now, because in the end, yeah finance is the main goal of these manufacturers they’re going to take the open source os? That is android and they’re going to manufacture their hardware, that is their smartphones and they’re, going to shove it in cram it in and throw it out the window and keep producing those over and over and over and over and over again the more different options they Can offer they figure the more money in their pocket and that’s not going to change anytime soon.
If manufacturers did suddenly magically slow down these devices by a lot, maybe one device per year think about it. First of all, that’d be a lot less money for them. Second of all, you’d stop getting those incremental upgrades so remember how the droid razer max was a much larger battery for the droid razer.
You wouldn’t see those if they only release one device per year. They put out the droid razer and for some reason it pisses people off. That motorola listened to you guys and you wanted a longer battery life and a phone, and they said all right.
We’Ll have this droid razor come out and there you go, but that would sort of cease if you only had one device per year and second companies would be less likely to take risks if they’re putting all their eggs into one basket once a year. So you’re less likely to see phones like the razer that are so crazy in their design and so revolutionary. You wouldn’t even get a razor max or a razor at all, so yeah.
It seems kind of silly, but the adjustment isn’t going to go unhappen on the manufacturer’s side. It’S going to have to come from us on the consumer side, but it seems kind of silly to complain, though, doesn’t it like unless you have some sort of inferiority complex or if you, you absolutely, must have the best phone out to feel good about yourself as A person or if your phone is some sign of some sort of status, symbol yeah that might get some hate, but is that why people get mad at new releases like screw evolution right? If, if i buy a phone, then manufacturers should just stop making new phones until my contract is up and i can afford a new one. No, no sorry! No, so here’s my advice, because i get a lot of people asking me what android phone should i get pick the set of features that you actually want in a phone. So if you describe your dream phone, you want a phone with a big screen. Look at the big screen! Phones! If you want a phone running android, look at the big screened android phones say you want a phone with a big battery life. Look at that too.
If you want to play a certain game, use a certain app have certain features. Put that together match it up and look at the phones that will match your criteria. Watch some reviews play with it in a store, borrow it from your friend that might already have it.
You know and once you’ve narrowed it down, pick your favorite and that should probably be the best device for you. So if i had to say what device is for you, if i don’t know anything about you, that is a process, i would suggest you get the device that fits you best and you’ll be happy with it, because you made that correct choice. I personally really like all the choices that i get with the multitude of android devices available for me to pick from, but i know a lot of you guys feel differently. You don’t really like that. So in the end, what do you think? Is there never a right time to buy an android device, or is there never a wrong time to buy an android device? This has been mkbhd thanks for watching peace. You .