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$30 Unlocked Android Smartphones To Launch in India This Month (factordaily.com)
Several Indian smartphone manufacturers including Micromax, Intex and Lava plan to unveil a slew of Android smartphones priced around $30 in the coming weeks, Indian news outlet FactorDaily reported on Tuesday. These handsets would run Android Oreo Go, a lite version of Google's mobile operating system first unveiled last year. The report sheds light on India's smartphone market: With cheap smartphones, Google and the phone vendors hope to ride the wave of mass scale internet access on mobile phones in India. From a monthly consumption of 20 crore (200 million) GB of data about 16 months ago, Indians now consume over 150 crore (1.5 billion) GB a month making the country No. 1 among mobile data consuming countries. Much of this change is credited to aggressive data pricing plans by Reliance Jio, which launched services in September 2016.
Don't worry, you'll still be able to gloat from your parent-provided basement.
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2018 and I'm still worrying about not exceeding my (already expensive) mobile data plan. Entrenched monopolies and state protectionism in Western countries mean we're not getting enough affordable connectivity for the next decades. Tech is going to migrate to countries like India where affordable infrastructure is being built.
1 crore appears to be 10 million, i.e. 10^7. It's a number superstition thing, isn't it?
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There is definitely a market for cheap handsets here. Not everyone lives in LA, SF, NYC, or Austin, and has the dosh to buy a new iPhone X or whatever Apple is selling on release date. In fact, most of the country is barely getting by, with the best times in memory all behind them.
It isn't like phone tech is improving by leaps and bounds anyway. Any phone made recently has a decent front and back camera, and Android makers have decent fingerprint scanners. Hell, Android has had FaceID since around 2013, with the ability for the phone to ask the person to blink, which is a security technique that hasn't been gotten around yet.
As for CPUs, if apps didn't continue to be such bloated pigs, there wouldn't be a need for octocores on up, with bigger devices needed for more surface area for cooling.
As for storage, 16-32 gig internal, then a MicroSD card slot. This way, if someone wants 400 gigs of storage, that is easily accomplished.
None of this is rocket science here. The only thing that really is an obstacle is selling the devices in the US is the fact that companies think every Tom, Dick, and Harry can blow quad digits for a phone... which is not true.
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Well let *us* not. But remember it's an article written by Indians about Indians for an Indian audience that just happened to be picked up by Slashdot. And it seems crore is culturally a unit predating the colonial dissemination of English in that region.
They're getting smartphones to those who couldn't otherwise afford it. As India grows, they'll have a smart phone preference. I equate this to free cigs for soldiers in WWII except in this case it isn't free, but cheap and affordable; for some this could be a week's pay, and within reach.
You can say a bunch of things about google, but getting these handsets to the cheapness of $30 opens a lot of windows for those who had none before.
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Could be worse, comrade. Your destination needs paved roads, trains with adequate seating inside - not on top - and rivers without dead bodies floating down them.
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That's a good deliberate attempt to malign India's image. Images are not untrue. But that percentage is low. We have beautiful cities and sceneries too. Search for Leh ladakh and Kerala in google and see yourself. I will not give any link to mark my words. Try searching "Incredible India" or "Beutiful India". In India- you get what you search+ few more .
The important question is, why can't we have this on high-end devices?
I'm sure a lot of people would prefer a simple OS over the normal "bloat edition", even if they have good hardware.
And I thought Detroit was bad. This place you call home is a sewer, a cemetary, and things I can't put into words because it is too unreal.
How can it be that none of you can see it today, never mind that last few thousand years?
Every country is different.
If India were to follow the US standards it would be too expensive for them to operate. If the US follows India's standards, we may be missing quality, or the consumer protections that we demand.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Please let's not start using new or obscure unitz of measurement that provid no significant improvement over currently popular units.
In this case, one could say Crore is probable better than Billion as a unit because it can be expressed as a clean number "150" that is short an concise without needing decimal places. Also, 1/6th of the world's population use the term "Crore" that hardly makes it obscure. That's a higher percentage of the world than uses terms such as "miles" or "pounds (weight)" or "feet" or "furloughs per cubic quart".
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each? I've got a way to go before before I get such value from my unlimited mobile data plan!
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This is slashdot. Sometimes it's a little slow.
but...a quart is a unit of volume. why would I need to cube it?
I could only find $10 ones: https://www.aliexpress.com/cat...
Just make sure you stay away from the designated shitting streets, which are apparently a thing. :-P
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Funny, I'm 65 and I've never seen any volume knob labelled in quarts.
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Actually it is an analog single simulating the abstract concepts of bits. Which can degrade, get lost and how such changes and differences approaches to dealing with the issues can be well open to debate.
If you want cheap then if the bits get lost then the get lost. If you want expensive you have the bits being processed differently.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
If you buy a phone which haven't been locked down then it's not an unlocked phone. It's a phone without any locks. Or just a phone.
Only locked down phones can be unlocked.
A 7 year old phone running Gingerbread?
Be serious.
He is providing the 5mhz service at a fraction of the cost and at a better bandwidth than any American ISP (Put your top 10 names here).
Pretty soon, he will do the same in the USA, buying infrastructure from the top 10, and then wam bam bang, he will offer a service coast to coast to compete with V,C,A,G and whoever else.
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