On 09/10/2014 21:29, Rod Speed wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote

My trusty old Nokia N95 is giving up the ghost.
Doesn't appear to be the battery - which is original.

What's the symptoms ?

I'm on PAYG so will have to pay full price for a replacement.

I'd like a new one with at least as good a stills camera and also
an FM radio. The rest I assume will be ok with any modern phone.

I've got a 'thing' against Apple products.

Most who don’t like Apple products hardly ever have too
much bad to say about the high end Samsung Galaxys S*s.
Get one with plenty of memory, I got a 16G phone when
I replaced the N95 8GB a couple of years ago now, assuming
that since I never ran out of space on the N95, double that,
which was the minimum I could buy would be fine.

In fact I use it rather differently with the podcasts from our
national radio broadcaster that I listen to when walking for
exercise because the replacement downloads the podcasts
for the programs that I am interested in automatically
rather than manually as I did with the N95, so there is a
hell of a lot more on the phone that I get to choose from.

Even tho you don’t like Apple products, its worth considering
the 6 plus because it has a much better camera than the N95.
Very large phone tho, too big for a phone IMO.

I've got a standard 6, and, has to be said, a wonderful piece of
hardware engineering and software design.

But it's a ridiculous bauble, really. Far too much money, and if I
hadn't invested in apps (especially the maps, which work) I'd go for a
Moto G.

I'm not entirely clear whether the OP wants or needs a smartphone, and
whether battery life is an issue, but my guess is that the Moto G could
work. 4G might even dispense with the FM radio fixation ;-)

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Cheers, Rob