5 phones better than Apple's iPhone SE

Hey, did you hear Apple just built the cheapest iPhone ever? It's calling it the iPhone SE. So? Well, it's got the cute and comfy looks of the iPhone 5S and muscle of the latest iPhone 6S: and it costs just $399 (which roughly translates to Rs.26,671). That's right, a new iPhone for under Rs.30,000! Got you excited right? Sadly, things are different in the real world. India still isn't the cheapest markets to buy the iPhone. For if it were, Apple wouldn't have priced the iPhone SE at Rs.39,000 (which roughly translates to $583). And they said, the iPhone SE was geared towards emerging markets like India and China. Oh Apple what were you thinking?

But, what's done is done. Even with that atrocious Indian pricing, you can't take away the fact that Apple's new iPhone SE is well in fact an iPhone. It's beautiful, and it's powerful: typical iPhone, we tell you. But, it's kind of small in size and big on price, meaning it wouldn't necessarily appeal to everyone. Unless of course you're a long term iPhone 5 (or 5S) user and have been secretly hoping (and praying) for Apple to make a rerun. Kind of what Android fan-boys were doing in the case of the Nexus 5.

So what do you do when you have a budget of Rs.39,000 to invest? Should you buy the iPhone SE? Sure, but take a look at the following five options before jumping that gun.

It is imperative for you to make 'this' choice before everything else. What will it be? Android or iOS? Fans will find a hundred reasons to celebrate an OS, and haters will find a hundred and one reasons to loath it. Call it what you may, but the iPhone vs Android is even more hysterical than Batman vs Superman. If, however you have narrowed down on Android, it doesn't get any better (conditions apply) than Google's own Nexus 6P.

"To Android users, the Nexus 6P offers the goodness of clean and latest software, a brilliant camera, premium looks and design, and a very good screen. It does everything a smartphone is supposed to do and does so in style," is what we said in our full and comprehensive review of the phone.

Priced at around Rs.39,900, there's not much to complain about in the Nexus 6P, save the size perhaps. It's a 5.7-inch phone (a standard used to denote phablets these days) but you know you can't go wrong with those gorgeous looks. And honestly, it doesn't feel all that big in the hands (it's in fact thinner than the iPhone SE). Folks back at Huawei have done a commendable job with this one. We hear, the company has at least one more Nexus in the offing somewhere. Can't wait!

As for the Nexus 6P, it makes more sense from a storage point of view as well. You get 4X storage at around the same price, which could be a deal breaker for many. Not to mention, timely software updates straight from house Google. Come to think of it, the Nexus 6P can be called the iPhone of the Android world, only that this one gives more control in the hands of the users.

source: techgig.com