OnePlus One 5.5" Smartphone 64GB £290

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Looks interesting, 16GB version £230

http://www.stuff.tv/oneplus-one-smartphone-image-l...

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I thought the price was great for the spec.

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ZesPak said:

The iPhone is great phone, I use it as one, but imho it falls short for being a "smartphone" for me.

That logic doesn't make sense, surely what you mean is it doesn't work as a tablet. As a smartphone I can't see any area where the iPhone is weak. But it's not a phablet and wasn't designed as one, yet!

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ZesPak said:

I thought I was being very prudent saying "imho" and "for me"?

The screen, for me is just too small to do anything meaningful, even consume (websites, youtube, e-mail, attachments).
I have mine as a secondary phone for when I leave the country (half of the time), where I put in a sim with a data allowance and basically mostly use it as a WiFi hotspot. The fact that it can sync my (google) contacts and calendars is the reason I got one instead of a £20 phone. But, every time I have to look for an address on a certain website or type something that is more than two words the tiny screen frustrates me to no end, I often use it as a hotspot for my 5" phone, which I don't consider a "phablet", at all.

I saw a woman using a Note 3 the other day as a phone and it looked ridiculous. I've never really had any issues on the iPhone viewing websites, youtube or email for that matter as the zoom function works quite well. But I wouldn't like to spend a great deal of time typing on one.