How to Avoid Having Your Phone Outdated Within a Week

Let me spend a minute here setting the scene, you've just walked out of a phone dealership feeling excited whilst holding a bag containing your new mobile, after combing the mobile phone industry for your perfect contract, (although you want a lot of minutes and texts, you wouldnt for once mind having a phone that your mates would immediately shout "WHOA! thats a nice phone"). However, the point you go home and into work the next day, your phone is already obsolete from the rest of the world in terms of having the most updated handset. 

Now the problem here is that mobile phone companies are pumping out models every other day, new technology is being developed at the click of a finger and yet, you are being caught up in this as you are frequently pulling out the check-book for yet another gimmick targetted at you. What you effectively need is longer-lasting models (ie. ones that dont go out of fashion so easily). You could go for the next Motorola or Nokia, but these people seem to pump out upgrades every 6 months, so you check out Vertu. However, you will be disdained to see that they are probably well above your price range (<£1299). So no, We need to go back to the drawing board.

Firstly ask yourself what features in a mobile phone do and dont last:

1. Build and Style. Good looking and heavy built phones seem to stick nicely to people.
2. Interface, Does it bore you? or is there something nicely hidden for you to exploit, afterall, the iphone interface is definately  interesting but then so are most touch phones.
3. Open Sourcing abilities, take my phone for instance, Nokia n95, s60 OS and therefore i can get really cool freebies from http://mosh.nokia.com/
4. Camera, nowadays with 8MP cameras, its worth considering that this will be outdated. Fast.
5. Look for Touch Screens, I know that touch screen phones are technically a technological factor, but it aids with the interface, touch phones are not usually boring to play with. The novelty may over time deteriorate for instance the iphone, but then consider the App store. Thus alleviating any signs that you can get bored of the iphone. Please comment if you are bored of an iphone and why.

I could go on forever, but there seems to be a basic principle that we can gather. Phone designs are not "fast fashion" and therefore do not go out of fashion as quickly as technologically enhanced phones. Sure it took them a while to exceed 5 MP; but they have now. If you are looking for a handset which wont be outdated in the next week or so, look for ones that look nicer than looking for one that has all the "gimmicks"