Hi all
Short version, I want an Android mobile that is modern enough that it will run modern apps (I'm looking at you Pokemon Go...), preferably has 4G and (and this is important as it has been a source of frustration) actually allows you to save 'everything' to the SD card. UK person (if that matters in this global age!), happy to hear about outright purchases (my preference) up to, say £100(?) or monthly contracts including the mobile (up to, say, £30?).
Long version, I bought a Windows mobile as my entry into the smart 'phone world. What it does it does great, everything is fine, the 'phone memory is half full (OS and a few apps that have to be on the 'phone), then an SD card chock full of apps and music.
Wifey decides she wants to get in on the smartphone craze with me (100 years after it started ) and I suggest my mobile is great and all, but I wish I'd gone Android as more apps, sleeker, just generally seems to be a better world for people happy to tinker (I do like to tinker... wish I was good at it...). She gets a Pixi3 and I get jealous at how cool it all is... until she installs a few apps and finds it's full. So we get her an SD card... which the 'phone refuses to use (it claims it is, and every app does fill the card a little, but it fills the 'phone memory much more, as if it is putting most on the 'phone and a bit on the card). So she gets frustrated, especially when she deletes apps and finds she STILL can't add new apps (or the apps that would allow her to clear space). We look up guides, we try and sort it via my laptop, we fail. We lose faith in Android.
A year passes and her 'phone throws a fit, just constant error messages. We have by now decided the Pixi3 must just suck, so she gets another Android that specifically says 'SD card allows you to expand your 'phone, get more apps! More music! Much happy!'. Of course(?) the exact same thing is happening, she downloads apps with 'save to SD' as default - it ignores this and saves 90% of the app to the 'phone itself.
SO! Have we made 2 bad choices, or is this how Androids are? I notice there are stickies about overcoming 'your 'phone is full' messages, which worries me... but given Android seems to be the app of choice for the tech savvy (the real tech savvy, not the latte and iPhone crowd) I find it hard to believe that it has such a serious flaw (perhaps the above could be read as 'the tech savvy like it as they know how to fix this issue'?).
I want to get an Android, but I can't handle messages saying I can't have any more apps while I have 64gb of SD card unused... I'm happy to just limit my app useage (music will be the main filling, I could limit my apps, so long as I could, you know, take them off and put new ones on, instead of the apparent situation being when you take them off they don't seem to actually go).
All help very gratefully received! Sorry for the long read...
Short version, I want an Android mobile that is modern enough that it will run modern apps (I'm looking at you Pokemon Go...), preferably has 4G and (and this is important as it has been a source of frustration) actually allows you to save 'everything' to the SD card. UK person (if that matters in this global age!), happy to hear about outright purchases (my preference) up to, say £100(?) or monthly contracts including the mobile (up to, say, £30?).
Long version, I bought a Windows mobile as my entry into the smart 'phone world. What it does it does great, everything is fine, the 'phone memory is half full (OS and a few apps that have to be on the 'phone), then an SD card chock full of apps and music.
Wifey decides she wants to get in on the smartphone craze with me (100 years after it started ) and I suggest my mobile is great and all, but I wish I'd gone Android as more apps, sleeker, just generally seems to be a better world for people happy to tinker (I do like to tinker... wish I was good at it...). She gets a Pixi3 and I get jealous at how cool it all is... until she installs a few apps and finds it's full. So we get her an SD card... which the 'phone refuses to use (it claims it is, and every app does fill the card a little, but it fills the 'phone memory much more, as if it is putting most on the 'phone and a bit on the card). So she gets frustrated, especially when she deletes apps and finds she STILL can't add new apps (or the apps that would allow her to clear space). We look up guides, we try and sort it via my laptop, we fail. We lose faith in Android.
A year passes and her 'phone throws a fit, just constant error messages. We have by now decided the Pixi3 must just suck, so she gets another Android that specifically says 'SD card allows you to expand your 'phone, get more apps! More music! Much happy!'. Of course(?) the exact same thing is happening, she downloads apps with 'save to SD' as default - it ignores this and saves 90% of the app to the 'phone itself.
SO! Have we made 2 bad choices, or is this how Androids are? I notice there are stickies about overcoming 'your 'phone is full' messages, which worries me... but given Android seems to be the app of choice for the tech savvy (the real tech savvy, not the latte and iPhone crowd) I find it hard to believe that it has such a serious flaw (perhaps the above could be read as 'the tech savvy like it as they know how to fix this issue'?).
I want to get an Android, but I can't handle messages saying I can't have any more apps while I have 64gb of SD card unused... I'm happy to just limit my app useage (music will be the main filling, I could limit my apps, so long as I could, you know, take them off and put new ones on, instead of the apparent situation being when you take them off they don't seem to actually go).
All help very gratefully received! Sorry for the long read...