Your phones are very new and very nice!
The notch doesn't really bother me, just the 4gb of ram (which may not even bother me in real usage), and having the iPhone for so long, I think the fingerprint sensor on the back of the Pixel 3 would bug me.
But who knows, if the Pixel 4 is gonna go for a huge price, I just may scoop up a 3XL after all.
Oh, I do read a lot of your posts which I enjoy, and it wouldn't surprise me if you got something new in the fall!
Thank you for the kind words.
Oh yes the 4GB of ram IS a pain point for my husband. He multi tasks a lot and it’s all well and good until he suddenly boom, he’s got too much going on and the phone slows or freezes.
I don’t run into as many problems as he does because I don’t use my phone that way. I have two hands and a phone for each, so if I want to multi task I do two or more tasks on the two phones (and sometimes my iPad mini gets dragged in as well or I have three phones working). I’m completely weird. And I would be really something as an octopus-human hybrid.
I am actually really intrigued by the ASUS Zenphone 6. I once had a Hitachi G1000 with a rotating camera and I think it’s so cool that companies are once again experimenting with cameras like that.
At the time that phone seemed like a brick and when I was able to go to a much smaller Treo it felt so liberating. And now here we are back to gigantic heavy phones again. With flippy cameras. The nostalgia is getting to me.
Anyway the ASUS appeals to me because it supposedly has a very nice LCD display, headphone jack and 5000 mAH battery that will give 2 days of service. I look forward to seeing full reviews.
The problem with me trying to branch out and try an ASUS is I don’t know that I could mitigate the cost with a trade in of one of my current phones. I trade in phones that are going out of their one year warranties and get fresh new phones for under $500 -$600 thanks to trade in deals.
Every now and then I’d do something crazy like get an “extra” phone like my Product Red iPhone 8 Plus at full price, no trade in, and got the extended warranty for it.
Or get too attached and not send in my trade in and eat the full cost (as happened when I kept my Pixel 2 “Snowball”—do NOT name your phones cute names). I also once went down a dead end on an HTC 10. I loved that phone but one year later it was worth only $40 on trade at its own site!
Fortunately the HTC DNA that I loved seems to have gone to the Pixels anyway.
But for the most part I try to make things work via deals so that I keep this “hobby” within a reasonable “entertainment budget” per year. With smart phone prices climbing as fast as they have, it’s now expensive to branch out and try the former budget brands.
Samsung made it so ridiculously inexpensive to trade up from my S9+ to my S10+.
Meanwhile, trying something like the OnePlus 7 Pro would actually cost me more! Unless they have a good trade in program. I’d need to check that out...if I were interested. However, they made that display too curved for my tolerance level. That’s a trend that needs to die fast.
Apropos of nothing: I read this morning that Grumpy Cat, aka Tardar Sauce, has passed away. Sigh.
