Clara Hatcher questions MoJoCon attendees about their mobile preferences.
Emma O’Farrell from EOF Media says she is in a constant cycle with her phone. She takes photos, creates video, uploads content and then deletes everything almost immediately.
"Storage-wise I always find that I have to delete photos and videos and things like that, which is probably bad," O’Farrell said. "I should be storing more content."
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Since she got her first phone, O’Farrell has bounced around from Android to IOS – save her Motorola "brick phone" at 12 years old. Now, she on an iPhone 5, but looking for an upgrade.
"I definitely think you need to be constantly upgrading," O’Farrell said. "If you are relying on your phone for work, you should always have the latest technology."
Because she works for a media company, O’Farrell said she is always on her phone and IOS remains her favorite. The phone’s downfall, she said, is the low amount of storage available.
To Jamie Starboisky from Queer Media UK, storage is a bigger priority. He is the proud owner of an Android phone – a Samsung S7.
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"What I like about Samsung is it has a facility to put a card in," says Starboisky. So with the amount of storage I’ve got, I don’t have to delete anything.". The additional SD card can increase storage by 200GB and plugs in to the back of the phone.
Apart from storage, Starboisky said that the battery life is great and has lasted longer than some of the older models he has owned. However, the previous Samsung model, the S6, doesn't include an SD card slot. This, Andrea Eusebio from Alanews said, is a big drawback.
"We [at Alanews] use external storage, but with this kind of phone it is difficult because you can’t," Eusebio said.
Eusebio stands by the phone because of its high quality. The important thing, he says, is to have backup storage and batteries. At Alanews, Eusebio said, if your phone dies or you run out of storage, you are out of luck.
Kathy O’Donnell and Anthony Sherry, both iPhone owners from Dropbox, say that battery life is not an issue unless they are extremely active on their phones during the day.
O’Donnell owns an iPhone 6 while Sherry owns both an iPhone 5 and 6. O’Donnell said that she charges her phone at night and usually gets good battery power throughout the day, but uses airplane mode when she needs to charge faster or save battery.
As for storage space, both O’Donnell and Sherry say that they have all the storage they need.
"I just put everything on Dropbox, so storage is not really a problem for me," O’Donnell said. "I don’t know what the storage is, but I never seem to run out so I think it is pretty good."
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