Currently the craze with phone manufacturers is to out do each other with bigger and bigger screened phones. Except Apple, which produces the iPhone 5S with a 4 inch screen. This may all change come September with the new iPhone 6 with a 4.7 inch and possible 5.5 inch iPhone.

Anyway, my son was reaching his 18th, so I asked him what he wanted for his birthday. No surprises when he said a new phone. So I showed him a number of the current crop of phones from the LG G3, HTC One M8, Sony Xperia Z2, Samsung Galaxy K Zoom and then the Moto E and G.

His response was simple. They are all too big. Far too big. An iPhone 5S was more realistic. Why an iPhone I asked. Because it’s made by Apple and was more pocketable. And the best response came when I started to discuss the different smartphone cameras. My son just turned round and said, “if I want to take a decent photo, I will use a DSLR!”

Part of me wonders whether the high pricing of an iPhone makes it more desirable even though a Moto E or Moto G can do a similar job for a fraction of the cost. My son knows that if he wants a phone of flagship colour he will have to save up and buy it himself, but he seems dedicated in this quest. It was also interesting that he had no desire for an oversized screen and that he recognised how poor phone cameras are versus a DSLR. I imagine this knowledge arrives from the fact that at 18, he uses Adobe Photoshop for editing!