New smart phone recommendations

[Scruff]

Feck me, but paranoia seems a bit over the top? You post information on a public forum and clearly use the internet. If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear...

Your calls are already logged and so is your internet usage. 🗽

[Boo]

If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear...

So you would have no qualms about NSA drones watching your and your partner enjoying sexual congress then ? Because, obviously, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear...

Boo

[doodab]

I've had a HTC one for months now. It's bigger but thinner than the missus iPhone, really good bit of kit, and more than a few iPhone owning friends have looked enviously at it.

[zazou]

Sony Xperia Z1

Have you looked into the Sony Xperia Z or Z1?
I've had a Z1 since it came out, upgrading from a Z and have to say that I really really like both.
Both are extremely powerful, (IMO) look nicer and classier than their Samsung rivals and have a slot for a memory card.

Mine is running on Android 4.3 so it looks like the Sony boys are honouring their commitment for software upgrades. It had 4.2 when I bought it.

Previously I've had Samsung Galaxy S, S2 and a Note 1. After I switched to Sony I haven't suffered from phone envy, something I did have with the Samsungs.

[Scruff]

So you would have no qualms about NSA drones watching your and your partner enjoying sexual congress then ? Because, obviously, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear...

Boo

7 Billion people on this planet so I'll take my chances that they aren't watching me specifically, or even at random.

No, I'm not concerned.

[stek]

7 Billion people on this planet so I'll take my chances that they aren't watching me specifically, or even at random.

No, I'm not concerned.

That was the problem the Stasi had in the GDR, spying on everyone and a population of 16 million to spy on. Needed another 16 million to do the spying. So they spied on each other. Orwell pre-empted that in 1984 with the neighbours kid spying on Winston when he was fixing the sink and probably was the one who dobbed him to Richard Burton.

[Boo]

7 Billion people on this planet so I'll take my chances that they aren't watching me specifically, or even at random.

No, I'm not concerned.

An extreme position you would drop in an instant if you thought it was actually happening...

Boo

[Scruff]

I grew up in apartheid South Africa and know what it's like to be watched by police in the anti- movement in the '80s.

I'm still not paranoid and I love the Black Sabbath...

[SteelyDan]

I think the new Samsung Galaxy S5 is coming out soon (maybe March?), which (according to reports) will see a 'high end' metal-bodied version introduced as well as the normal poly, or whatever, version. So, might be worth hanging on.