Cell Phone and PDA Buying Guide

Cell phones and PDAs are now become the integral part of our life. Before buying to any Cell phone or PDA devices these can be deciding factors while choosing your favorite Cell phone or PDA.

Size and Weight : Cell phones and PDA’s are meant for mobile users and they must fit into your pocket. Business users need a full keyboard otherwise most users need a device that is small and fit into their hands.

Performance: If you are using your Cell phone or PDA for downloading and running application the you need a phone that had a good processing power. Performance is key factor in PDA’s because they run multiple applications. Phones come with 500Mhz processor are good enough for most mobile applications.

Operating System: Currently Windows Mobile and Symbian are the most widely available operating system in mobile devices, apart from these two operating system different manufacturers using different operating system and their are some proprietary mobile operating systems are also present in the market. The cost of Mobile phone is also depends upon’s the type of operating system like Microsoft charge $12 to $14 for per mobile while Symbian charge only $4 to $6 per mobile phone.

Connectivity: A mobile device capable of connecting other devices or computers using Bluetooth and WiFi is good for sharing and synchronizing mobile device with other devices. Bluetooth or WiFi can also be used to connect to Internet. Bluetooth is widely used protocol not only for connecting devices as well as accessories. WiFi is not popular as compare to Bluetooth, WiFi can be used to stream audio and video files. WiFi is very useful when you don’t have GPRS connection at that your WiFi enabled devices can surf you internet in WiFi zone.

Input: Touch screen may not be as useful as keyboard. When it comes to playing games keyboard gives better experience as compare to touch screen mobile phones. While buying a keyboard enabled mobile phone make sure that all keyboard buttons have right feel.

Batteries: Battery with larger capacity is always good for mobile phones because it will keep your mobile phone powered for longer period of time. You can also look for batteries that can be charged through USB devices. Also check the battery claimed life and battery talk time.

Memory: Most mobile phones gives support for additional memory support. SD is the most cheapest and widely available kind of memory. Some mobile phone manufactures only support their own proprietary type of memory. These memory can be costlier then SD memory.

Signal Quality: Mobile phone should have a good reception because mobile phones are used for making and receiving phone calls. Check the phone signal performance inside a building as well as in outdoors. very few people check the signal quality of mobile phones.

There can be some other points also consider before buying the Mobile phone.