| Apple | Pro’s | Con’s |
iPhone 7S/8
(unreleased) | - Rumoured OLED Display
- Rumoured Wireless Charging
- Rumoured Facial Recognition (FaceID)
| - Very Expensive to repair
- Home button likely to be built into screen
If you get a screen replacement anywhere other than apple, your home button will not work at all.
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| iPhone 7/7+ | - Quality Design
- Simple Operating System
- All Modern Features
- Great Battery(yet to see one that requires a battery replacement)
- Fast Processing Speed
- Fairly Water Resistant
- Great Cameras
| - If you or a repairer damages your home button, Apple are the only place who can fix this due to the home button being driven purely by software. If it was a third party repairer, your phone is likely out of warranty.
- Expensive Repair
- Screen is adhesived in – Increasing chances of damage to screen flex cable when performing any internal repairs
- Low tolerance to bad quality chargers
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| iPhone 6S/6S+(recommended) | - Quality Design
- Simple Operating System
- All Modern Features
- Great Battery(yet to see one that requires a battery replacement)
- Fast Processing Speed
| - May start to notice lagging or crashing.
- Moderate Priced Repair
- Low tolerance to bad quality chargers
- Third party home button replacement results in losing Touch ID
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iPhone SE
(recommended) | - Quality Design
- Simple Operating System
- All Modern Features
- Great Battery(yet to see one that requires a battery replacement)
- Best Frame design apples made
- Cheap Repair
- Cheap Purchase Price
| - Low tolerance to bad chargers
- Third party home button replacement results in losing Touch ID
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iPhone 6/6+
(do not recommend 6+) | - Simple Operating System
- Most Modern Features
- Cheap Repair
- Cheap Purchase Price
| - Weak Frame Design (weak point at the power button/volume button cutouts)
- Known issues with Touch Disease due to bending frame. (more common in 6+)
- Many reports of operating system lagging or crashing regularly
- Low tolerance to bad chargers
- Third party home button replacement results in losing Touch ID
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| iPhone 5S | - Simple Operating System
- Most Modern Features
- Great Frame Design
- Cheap Repair
- Cheap Purchase Price
| - Slightly outdated
- Many reports of operating system lagging or crashing regularly
- Low tolerance to bad chargers
- Third party home button replacement results in losing Touch ID
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| iPhone 5C | - Simple Operating System
- Most Modern Features
- Great Frame Design
- Cheap Repair
- Cheap Purchase Price
| - Slightly outdated
- Many reports of operating system lagging or crashing regularly
- Common for touch ic’s to fracture or capacitor near touch ic’s to short to ground causing no touch.
- Low tolerance to bad chargers
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iPhone 5
(do not recommend)
| - Simple Operating System
- Most Modern Features
- Great Frame Design
- Cheap Repair
- Cheap Purchase Price
| - Quite outdated
- Many reports of operating system lagging or crashing regularly
- Low tolerance to bad chargers
- Common Tristar IC issues
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iPhone 4/4S
(do not recommend)
| - Simple Operating System
- Cheap Repair
- Cheap Purchase Price
| - Really outdated
- Many reports of operating system lagging or crashing regularly
- Common Greyed out wifi issues
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| Google | | |
Pixel
(recommended) | - Fast Processing Power
- Great Cameras
- Cheap Repair
- Charges Fast
- Great Battery Life
- Strong & Stylish Design
- Flexible & Open Operating System
- All Modern Features
| - Expensive Purchase Price
- Any internal repairs require removing or sometimes breaking the display.
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| Samsung | | |
| Samsung S8/S8+ | - Flexible & Open Operating System
- Stylish Design
- Fast Processing Power
- Wireless Charging
- All Modern Features
- Great Cameras
| - Very Expensive to repair
- Any internal repairs require removing or sometimes breaking the rear glass
- Charge Port replacements typically require a screen replacement in order to do the repair
- Known to be extremely fragile screens
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| Samsung S7/S7E | - Flexible & Open Operating System
- Stylish Design
- Fast Processing Power
- Wireless Charging
- All Modern Features
- Great Cameras
| - Any internal repairs require removing or sometimes breaking the rear glass
- Charge Port replacements typically require a screen replacement in order to do the repair
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| Samsung S6/S6E | - Flexible & Open Operating System
- All Modern Features
- Great Cameras
| - Any internal repairs require removing or sometimes breaking the rear glass
- Charge Port replacements typically require a screen replacement in order to repair
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| Samsung S5 | - Flexible & Open Operating System
- Some Modern Features
- Cheap Purchase Price
| - Any repairs require removing or sometimes breaking the front screen display
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| Samsung S4 | - Flexible & Open Operating System
- Cheap Purchase Price
- Moderate Priced Repairs
| - Quite Slow
- Average battery life
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| Samsung S3 | - Flexible & Open Operating System
- Cheap Purchase Price
- Moderate Priced Repairs
| - Quite Slow
- Average battery life
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| HTC | | |
| Most Models (do not recommend) | - Fast Processing Power
- Flexible & Open Operating System
- Rarely suffer hardware issues
| - Terribly Assembled
- Expensive to repair
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| Sony | | |
| Most Xperia’s (do not recommend) | - Moderate-Fast Processing Power
- Flexible & Open Operating System
- Rarely suffer hardware issues
| - Terribly Assembled
- Expensive to repair
- Known to be extremely fragile
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