When the brother returned home on National Day, he had a drink with his father and saw the mobile phone that I gave him three years ago.
At the beginning, this mobile phone was bought for more than 4,000 yuan, and it was the flagship of the year. But now there are also some inadequacies, and the fluency of the past has been lost.
The brother asked his father if he wanted to change the mobile phone, and he said: So expensive to buy, now it is not unusable, what to change?
Indeed, if you want to buy a good mobile phone back then, it is not easy to buy no less than four or five thousand. But now it's different, two or three thousand mobile phones are already quite good.
The brother secretly decided to change his father's mobile phone. No, today is the Chongyang Festival, and the new mobile phone is just right as a gift.
Moreover, before the organic friends asked, to recommend to parents what mobile phone.
It is better to choose a day than to collide with the sun, so let's solve it together today
First of all, we have to figure out a question: what is the demand for mobile phones for middle-aged and elderly people?
It just so happens that Strategy Analytics, a well-known research agency, has previously conducted a smartphone consumer survey.
In the survey, SA classified the vast majority of middle-aged and elderly people as "low-cost practical people".
As for this group, the demand for mobile phones is not very high. They don't spend a lot of money on their phones, and the data shows that their average price is in their early three thousands.
And the general replacement frequency is very low, a mobile phone top more than two years.
Tencent's survey results on mobile phone users coincide with SA's.
As we age, more people buy low- and middle-end models. Among the people over 50 years old, the number of people who buy low-end models even reaches more than 70%.
From this, we can basically conclude that middle-aged and elderly people generally do not have high demand for mobile phones, and prefer mid-range and entry-level models.
But this is not enough, brother Ji and brother eight also did a small survey on the elders around them, and we listed the needs that overlapped many times:
Sex can be used
The battery is as large as possible
The system is easy to get started
The screen size should be larger
The price should not be too expensive
Based on these points, the machine brother distinguished between three ranges of thousand yuan, one to two thousand yuan, and more than two thousand yuan, and looked for suitable mobile phones in the range.
Redmi 9A
Within the price of 1000, the machine brother is willing to call the 599 yuan red rice 9A "dark horse"
Brother Ji said that it is not out of thin air, this is supported by huge data.
In September, the first place in the sales of Jingdong mobile phone products was the Redmi 9A.
You have to know that in September, but the next door iPhone 13 release month, it is not good to cover apple single product sales.
What is more divine? The Redmi 9A is also a phone from last year.
The reason why it is so popular, in addition to the very low price, is because it is just right, it pokes at the needs of middle-aged and elderly people:
Want a big battery? Red rice directly on the whole 5000mAh, in terms of the use of the elders, two or three days to charge once is enough.
The screen is not small, reaching 6.53 inches, just for the demand for large screens.
There are also special minimalist desktops and large fonts, which are also taken care of for the elders who have bad eyes.
The lens is directly only a single rear shot, not playing with you, nor pulling up the price of the number, it is really conscience - 13 million rear lens + 5 million front lens.
Don't look at the camera as if it is a bit "shabby", beauty, bokeh, delay photography, but none of them have fallen.
Moreover, do not look at the top configuration of only 6 + 128GB, it can support expanded storage, up to 512GB.
Besides, as a well-known brand, Xiaomi is very convenient to find after-sales in the future. The machine brother is not able to understand, 599 yuan, what reason to buy a cottage machine.
However, after all, it is a machine within a thousand yuan, and it is still compromised in many aspects, such as a 5V2A charger, a non-Type-C charging port...
Like the Redmi 9, 100 pieces of expensive has 18W fast charging, which is better than 9A.
You see, there is nothing that cannot be solved by adding money, then add to the price of a thousand yuan, and see what model it is
realme Q3
Realme Q3 can be said to be basically everything.
The mid-range processor 750G equipped with Snapdragon can be used by the elders for a period of time compared to the entry-level processor, and the smoothness and experience will be better.
And this is one of the cheapest high-screen brush mobile phones, 6.5-inch LCD screen, or 120Hz screen refresh rate, let them also experience the joy of high brushing.
Like mobile phones within a thousand yuan, the generally missing fast charge, up to a thousand yuan, which has become the standard, realme Q3 supports 30W fast charge, but also a 5000mAh battery.
With fast charging, the elders will not be so anxious about the battery.
In terms of taking pictures, 48 million main camera + 8 million wide angle + 2 million macro, front 16 million, this is completely enough, then look at the price -
6+128GB 1299 yuan; 8+128GB 1399 yuan; 8+256GB 1599 yuan
At the same price as the realme Q3, there are redmi Note9 5G and other models, their configuration is not very different, can be used as an alternative.
More than a thousand mobile phones at this price point can already meet their use, like what fast charging, large batteries, large screens are already available.
If you want to let the elders have a better experience, 2,000 yuan is a watershed, after this line, manufacturers began to pile up materials.
Honor 50
Honor 50 is a very typical stacking mid-range machine, the entry-level official website price of 2699 yuan.
Equipped with Qualcomm Snapdragon 778G processor, mid-range processor, the elderly use it completely no problem.
6.57-inch OLED screen, OLED screen has a more accurate and gorgeous effect than LCD screen, and Honor 50 also has a high brush screen of 120Hz.
In terms of photography, the Honor 50 main camera uses a 100 million pixel main camera.
For many elders who like to take pictures of landscapes, 100 million pixels are more analytical and more useful.
Although there are also two 2-megapixel tactical shots, but... It's better than nothing.
In the thousand yuan machine is generally conservative fast charging, on the honor 50, directly arranged 66W fast charging, the elders even if they temporarily charge before going out, it is enough.
But this Glory 50, there is also a point to consider, that is
Curved Screen. When buying, you have to see if the elders can accept it.
If, brother Ji is saying that if Ha, there is an elder in the family who Zhao Yun takes five kills, or 60 years old still likes to play Yasuo, has a strong e-sports heart...
The brother will suggest a whole flagship processor phone.
Meizu 18
Just kidding, the flagship processor is not about playing games, but about how it can stand up for a few more years.
You know, the frequency of changing machines of our elders is generally much slower than ours. A flagship processor mobile phone, want to top three years is still very easy to drop ~ ~
This is why this model, ah, the brother has recommended before, and today is also recommended.
It's not because people are Snapdragon 888. Even if there is now a Snapdragon 888+ and an upcoming 898, it is also a flagship processor.
In addition to the processor, the 4000mAh battery with 36W fast charge can charge 80% of the power in half an hour.
There are also double speakers, the volume is loud and loud, the elders play music, the experience will be much better.
In terms of photography, the full focal length coverage, 64 million main camera + 16 million ultra-wide + 8 million telephoto, such a configuration is enough for many young people.
And like others, curved 6.2-inch large screen, 120Hz screen refresh rate, some of these have, and it is still a 2K screen Oh.
It is worth mentioning that buying Meizu 18 for the elderly at home, there are two small advantages:
First of all, the three-zero system abandoned by Meizu is still effective on Meizu 18, that is, 0 advertising, 0 push, 0 pre-installed.
Secondly, Meizu just announced today that it will push the Flyme 9.2 system, bringing elderly family design.
These two points are still very useful for the elderly at home.
Of course, this is not hard and wide, if you don't like the Meizu brand, we still have a lot of options.
For example, the flagship machine realme GT 5G, which has a more brutal price reduction, or a little more money on the Xiaomi Mi 11, flagship-level stacking, it is difficult to refuse.
If the price goes up, it will enter the category of high-end machines.
Many people may have the impression that middle-aged and elderly people basically do not use high-end mobile phones.
But the data shows that this is not the case —
As far as Tencent's questionnaire is concerned, it can still be seen that a considerable number of middle-aged and elderly people will still choose high-end models.
Like this kind of elders, our choice is simpler, because the high-end models are less selective, nothing more than jumping back and forth between brands such as Huawei and Apple.
The machine brother will not make specific recommendations, the price is in place, these high-end mobile phones are very easy to use.
(Huawei, Apple, Xiaomi users change brands)
In general, the mobile phone is not absolutely good or bad, and what meets the needs is a good mobile phone, whether it is hundreds of pieces of red rice or tens of thousands of Apples.
Finally, the machine brother feels that considering the learning cost of the new mobile phone, we still give priority to the original brand.
But even if the original brand is chosen, some new features, such as full-screen gestures, they may not be used.
Let's not buy it and leave them alone, teach them a little bit to use, or help them set back to the bottom bar.
Be more patient and understanding, just as they taught us to eat with chopsticks.