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Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US
An anonymous reader writes: Bloomberg reports that ZTE and its cheap Android smartphones have been grabbing more and more of the market in the U.S. It's not that the phones are particularly good — it's that they're "good enough" for the $60 price tag. The company has moved up to fourth among smartphone makers, behind Apple, Samsung and LG. That puts them ahead of a lot of companies making premium devices: HTC, Motorola, and BlackBerry, to name a few. ZTE, a Chinese manufacturer, seems to be better at playing the U.S. markets than competitors like Xiaomi and Huawei, and they're getting access to big carriers and big retailers. "Its phone sales are all the more surprising because it's been frozen out of the more lucrative telecom networking market since 2012. That year, the House Intelligence Committee issued a report warning that China's intelligence services could potentially use ZTE's equipment, and those of rival Huawei Technologies, for spying. Huawei then dismissed the allegations as 'little more than an exercise in China bashing.'"
Why don't you post with your account?
If you want a cheap Windows phone? BLU makes several models and you can get the quad WinPhone with a GB of RAM for just $91 and those displays are quite nice.
I personally prefer Android myself so i picked up the BLU Studio Mini LTE with the same display and I have to say I'm VERY happy. Good screen, not a single crap app installed, KitKat was ready to download on first boot,good battery life, MicroSD slot for keeping my media, I really have zero complaints with this phone.
So I'd say the rise of the "cheap" smartphones is easy to explain...many of us don't give a shit about using phone brands as status symbols and the new so called "cheapies" do everything we want our phones to do so why would I spend 3-5 times the cost to have a big name label?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Why don't you post with your account?
Why don't you get naked, climb a chain link fence, and gash your nutsac open when you swing your leg over the top?
Assumes facts not in evidence, i.e. presence of said scrotum.
Pretending this is my office full of bitter coworkers..
"We install the backdoors and trojans on the factory floor ourselves, and pass the savings on to you!!"