Irfan

My cousin works double shifts at a hospital. Twelve hours on her feet, no time to sit down and charge, and she was going through a Redmi Note 13 like it was a disposable camera and dead by 8pm every single day. When I told her there’s now a sub-$300 OnePlus phone with an 8,000mAh … Read more

Last weekend I watched a friend hand his brand-new Sony A7R VI to a stranger at a rooftop party, just so she could capture a candid of him and she handed it back, shrugged, and pulled out her phone instead. “This one’s easier,” she said. He didn’t argue. I didn’t either, because I’d seen the … Read more

My cousin called me at 11 PM last December in a full panic. She’d cracked her Samsung Galaxy screen two days before her wedding, couldn’t get it fixed in time, and was asking if she should just “switch to iPhone” right then and there. I told her absolutely not. Not because iPhones are bad. But … Read more

My cousin called me three months ago asking for phone advice. His budget was $280, and he had already spent two weeks going down a Reddit rabbit hole that ended with him more confused than when he started. Sound familiar? I told him that stop reading specs. Start reading about real people’s experiences. So he … Read more