What the salesperson is not telling you about protection plans
I sold these. Not because I believed in every one of them, but because they were part of the job and the targets were real.
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Why buying last year’s flagship phone is usually the smarter move
The gap between one generation of flagship phone and the next has been narrowing for years. The gap in price has not.
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Do you actually need the titanium model of the latest phone
Almost certainly not, and the reason is that the material of the frame is one of the least important things about a phone you keep in a case.
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How to tell if a budget smartphone is actually worth buying
Budget phones have got remarkably good. They have also got remarkably good at looking good while cutting the things you cannot see in a shop.
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How phone carriers hide the true cost of a free upgrade
I managed a phone store in Portland for four years, so I have delivered this pitch several hundred times. Let me explain what I was actually doing.
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Why foldable phones still feel like a work in progress
I have handled several and I have not bought one. That is not a verdict on the category, it is a statement about where it currently sits, and I want to be specific about why…
