Please recommend me a phone. [Poll] Edit: Another poll! Edit 2: One more poll.

Ah you're a female? As a male, small size phone is a must for me. The second most important consideration is then the battery capacity and the third scratch resistant glass.

Mini is just the designation the screen size is 4.7 inch.

I have to appeal to the male demographic, I already got the women vote.

First question - what will you use this phone for? For games? Or maybe it should be only a phone with Internet/e-mail access? Or maybe a something you'll need for work with some special software which you will use?

If you'll need processing power than You'll want a Cortex A9 processor. A5 is basically ARM11 with ARMv7 instruction set - good enough for microwave, not enough for web browser. A7 is a power saving core - nothing special, but it can be used to power basic phone functions. Web browser, angry birds level games. Cortex A8 is where the power starts, but it is old and discontinued. Cortex A9 is upgraded A8. In two core configuration and decent graphic chip (Mali-400 MP4 300 GHz+ will do fine) it will be enough to run most of the games in Google Play store. Programing this things is the stuff I do for a living - so trust me. Cortex A5 are just a sick joke in a phone, and A7 are limited to some uses only.

Out of all of these phones only Xperia L got decent processor. Karit cores are much more powerful than A9. (about 40% more powerful than A9 at the same clock frequency) I've got it in my Phone (Xperia T, so it's got higher processor frequency, and better graphic system) It is the only one which will run more demanding games. Out of all these phones it is the one which I would buy for myself.

Moto E isn't as powerful as Xperia L (Xperia J, M and M2 are just a sad jokes) but if you don't require power than Motorolas are good quality, and it's got Gorilla Glass 3 - so it will be durable and Motorolas (at least the ones I had contact with) are reliable. It is the phone which I would recommend to my sister.

And one more thing - if you'll chose some other phone - don't jump to FullHD or something. (I also used to sell these things - I could prove to you that any screen is better than any other - never trust what you see in shops, also the manufacturers are on our side - just hit auto on FullHD and 4K panels - 4K will always look better at that point, but if you adjust the settings manually - there won't be any difference at all) In phones there are usually adjusted wallpapers and icons, or video playback with different compression settings. Sometimes manufacturers prepare video which has compression adjusted to look good only in specific resolution. Anything less - and there will be artifacts visible. All of this is to "prove" that FullHD on phones and 4K every else is better. It isn't. And more pixels means more work for graphic processor. So 720p in many cases looks better than FullHD while the rest of the hardware is the same. If you can - use your own material to comparing screens. Set brightness, contrast and saturation to 50% (on phones saturation and contrast are usually locked) and run your own high quality video file.

I bought it with phone change at my provider for 200$. I payed 35$ for start and 10$/month for 20 months.

I don't know if it can run Asphalt 8, because I only used it for 2 or 3 weeks, because I wanted to use the calling function on it too, but it was unusable. You cannot even talk normally with it even for a minute. The call was breaking up or disconnected, or you or the other side cannot hear anything at all. I gave it back to the provider and they gave my money back immediately and I bought a Galaxy S3... There was not much difference in price and it was worth it... Three of my colleges had Xperia L too and they have the exact same problems with it, so it's not just one faulty phone we're talking about...

Me neither, I guess he was unlucky and got a shitty phone

Oh, sorry, sorry. I forgot it.