Cheaper and higher performance than iPhone?Kazuyo Katsuma switched to Android.

* This paper is Kazuyo Katsuma "Overwhelmingly free and comfortable future!A part of Katsuma Neo Life Hack 100 (KADOKAWA) is a re -edited.

■ Why many high -income people have cheap SIM users

First of all, you think of a major mobile company in DoCoMo, au, and Softbank (commonly known as major carriers and three major carriers).A business operator that borrows communication equipment from that major and provides cheap SIM is called MVNO (acronym for Mobile Virtual Network Operator).The SoftBank Group offers a cheap SIM with its own cheap smartphone brand Y -Mobile.

According to an institution called the MMD Research Institute, as of March 2020, MVNO users are more than 14 %, and when combined with Y -Mobile users, cheap SIM users are over 20 %.I wonder if many people use it because it is cheap and there are many people who can't afford it, but it's actually the opposite.Survey has shown that higher income earners have higher cheap SIM transition ratios.

The reason is that two reasons are analyzed, and one is because if you use a cheap SIM, you need to purchase the terminal at once (it is not possible to purchase split, but the procedure is troublesome).Second, it is said that it cannot be transferred without IT literacy to some extent, such as checking and choosing a business operator and switching the line, and there are many high -income earners.

■ It is a waste to not move to a cheap SIM

By the way, it should be shifted to this cheap SIM, but I think it is a waste to move and not to move.

Actually, I have been a cheap SIM for about two years.Now I use two mobile phones, put one cheap SIM on OPPO and Huawei mobile phones, so that only one of them can speak.My daughter uses one thing that can make voice calls and pays three pieces, but how much do you think three pieces are a month?It's only a little 3000 yen.

■ The mobile phone is 1000-2000 yen except for data communication charges

One of the problems of cheap SIM is that the communication speed between morning and night is slow only in the morning and night.The point is the time zone that everyone uses a lot.Even if it's late, you'll get about one mega, but if you don't want to be late, you should sign up for data communication and voice communication at another company.

I use data communication a company dedicated to data communication, paying 5,000 yen a month to make a 200 giga contract.No matter how much you use it, the data communication is about 5 giga a day.No matter how much you use it, you will not exceed 5 giga, so if you have 200 giga, you can use it without worrying about the amount of communication at home or outside.

Both Netflix and YouTube are watching Bang Bang.If this is 100 giga, it seems that it will not be enough.When I ask a person who actually made 100 giga, I often hear that it should have been 200 giga.

In any case, please think that mobile phone charges are about 1000 yen per month, except for data communication, and 2000 yen.If you are a major carrier and pay 8000 yen or 10,000 yen a month, you think you will pay too much, so we recommend that you review your contract.

Specifically, there are many cheap SIMs on the web.If you still don't know, you'll tell you all carefully if you go to a consumer electronics retailer.At that time, if you are an iPhone user, please take a look at the sales floor of the Android model.

■ Even Android with less than 20,000 yen is inferior to 120,000 yen iPhone10

I mentioned earlier that I am using OPPO and Huawei mobile phones, but I used to be a pretty decent iPhone user.It started with iPhone3 and used up to 5, 7, and 10, so I was an iPhone user until 2017.

However, I bought Google Home in 2018 and learned about Google's technical skills.Google Home answers questions that Alexa or Siri can't answer at all.

So I wondered if Android was as good as it was.Since it is an OS made by Google, we have made a hypothesis that there may be differences in technical skills.Also, I used a voice input software called Remote Mouse, and I felt it was difficult to use it for Apple's OS iOS.

If you wrote that on a blog, there were quite a few people who would tell you that Android would be easy to use.So, for the time being, I decided to buy the cheapest Android for Remote Mouse, so I bought an entry machine called Huawei P20 Light for less than 20,000 yen and started examining the feeling of use.

The first thing I was surprised was that the speed was so fast that I thought it was strange.Compared to the iPhone10, which cost 120,000 yen, the Android Huawei, which does not cost 20,000 yen, was not as good as the iPhone10.With iOS, it took time to start up the same voice input, not just Remote Mouse.

The reason why it is late is that iOS discloses important parts in Apple.That's why Siri's audio input rises quickly, but the sound input of a third party like Remote Mouse and Shimeji is slow.

I knew that even if the software was a CPU with the same ability, it would be slow, and I bought it because I thought that if it was so comfortable with Android that did not cost 20,000 yen, it would be more comfortable.It is a model called Mate Pro 20 of Huawei that cost about 90,000 yen.

■ Battery has a battery even if used for one day

What was really surprising about the Mate Pro 20 of Huawei is that the screen is large.As I say bezeles, ordinary smartphones have a frame.Bezelless is a type with no frame, almost all screens.The 8 -inch tablet I had used until then was so large that I only had to go on a business trip, and my luggage was much less.

I was really surprised that the battery was good.iPhone10 is 2700 Millian Pair Hour.Occasionally an Oppo smartphone is 3400 Millian Pair Hour.The Android Huawei mobile phone is 4200 Millian Pare Hour.This difference is really big, and when you use the 4200 Huawei first, you have little worry about private batteries.If you do not forget to charge it, it will not be used for a whole day for a whole day.

On the other hand, if it was a 3400 option, I was a little anxious in the evening, depending on whether I had a last day.When I used 2700 iPhone10 for a whole day, I always carried a charger.In other words, if you make it a Huawei, you have almost no need to carry a charger.I realized that the trouble of charging that I had done naturally would be surprising.

■ In 2019, the performance of Android is completely up

Speaking of easy -to -use smartphones, the impression that Android thought that Android was inconvenient and not good has changed in the past year or two.

The Android base is Google, so it is pre -installed, including Gmail, Google Document, Google Maps, Google Play games, etc.These are used all year round, so when you buy a new model, you'll be very fast.

Of course, Chrome, which had been downloaded each time, is also included from the beginning.For those who are used to Google -based OS and Google software, Android mobile phones are much easier than iOS.

I think that the image that is difficult to use in the past has been wiped out.The data has been backed up to Google Drive, so will this data return just by putting Google account?It is easy to confirm that.

I think that a smartphone that makes only one Apple company on a closed platform like an iPhone, and a smartphone that compete for dozens of companies with open flat foams will be overtaken in the medium to long term.

In my image, the iPhone was caught up in 2017 and overtaken in 2018, and in 2019, Android was completely better.

If you've been using only your iPhone for a long time, and those who think that Android is very bad, it's worth considering Android's high -end mobile phone.The high end is cheaper than the iPhone, which is 80,000 to 90,000 yen.I can try it out at the store, so I think there is room to check the feeling of use there and consider whether to keep using the iPhone all the time.

----------- Kazuyo Katsuma Economic critic / Audit and Analytical Director / Director / Analytical Director / Central University Business School Professor Bousered in 1968.He graduated from Waseda University Finance MBA and Keio University's Faculty of Commerce.He is independent after Arthur Andersen, McKinsey and Company, and JP Morgan.He makes remarks in a wide range of fields, such as a declining birthrate issue, a problem for young people, a work -life balance, and an improvement in personal productivity.He has authored "Katsuma Meal Hack" (Takarajimasha), "Katsuma Super Logical Housework", "Katsuma Super Control Thinking", "It's easy and delicious!There are Katsuma -style super logical dishes (above, achievement publishing).---------------

(Economic critic / Audit and Analysis Director / Director / Central University Business School Visiters Kazuyo Katsuma)