Are Budget Priced Smartphones Taking Over?

Smartphones are getting more pricey and cheaper at the same time. The big popular phones like Apple iPhones, and Samsung Galaxy phones are expensive and they go up in price all the time. Many foreign companies make cheap smartphones, so if someone didn’t want to spend $600 – $1,000 on a phone than they could spend a fraction of the cost. Yes, you do get a slightly less powerful device, but  you’re still able to do most of the things you’d want to do on a smartphone.

The big question is whether these budget phones are really taking off. Samsung, Apple, and LG are still selling plenty of phones and don’t seem to be really hurting, at least not from these Chinese smartphones. Luckily for Apple you can can’t get budget phones that run the same operating system that iPhones run on. So if you want the iOS experience, you only have a few options and they are only sold by Apple. These new budget phones are in direct competition with companies making Android devices such as LG, Samsung, Google, and other companies. Google used to make inexpensive smartphones, but now they’ve been trying to complete with the likes of Samsung and Apple with a more premium device and premium price.

The budget smartphones seem to be a bigger deal in China than the U.S. Luckily for Samsung they make all kinds of phones. They make premium devices, and budget ones. Even if their sales numbers for their premium devices went down, their budget priced devices would probably go up.

I wouldn’t say that budget priced smartphones are taking over, at least not yet. These big Tech companies push innovation, and that costs money. Consumers want the latest and greatest, and as long as they want that these pricey phones will remain here. However, with innovation companies are learning how to spend less making devices that are powerful. I think more and more people will start buying cheaper smartphones, but it won’t take over the market any time soon.

The Year of The Budget Phone?

The company behind one of the greatest budget smartphones will be releasing their 2017 edition soon and I’ve been thinking about what to expect. I recently read an article talking about the rumored specs and it got me thinking again.

This Phone really could be the one to get people to stop buying their phones that are connected through their cell phone service providers. The reason why anyone would be interested in the “One Plus” series of phones is because they are good quality phones and you’re paying more than half less of the price of a mainstream flagship phone. If you pick up a brand new iPhone you’re looking at close to $800, at least if you want a big screen. The One Plus 3 for instance, was $399 when it launched and the company as plenty of sales for their devices. The dilemma with this was that you weren’t always getting the top of the line specs since you weren’t paying for it. However, This year it all could be different.

The next phone is said to have features that their rivals have had in their phones for some time now as well as features that haven’t been seen in many phones to date. It’s suppose to sport a 5.5 inch  Quad HD display, 6gb of ram, a huge 4,400 mAh battery, a curved screen, USB-C type slot for charging, and be waterproof. We’ve seen plenty of 5.5 inch screen phones within the last few years, Quad HD has been around for some years too. There has been rumors that Samsung was going to include 6gb of ram their flagship smartphones for some time now, but we still haven’t seen it. If the next One Plus device came equipped with that much ram than it would be among some of the first phones to have that much ram. This is a budget smartphone, so have all these features would truly be amazing! You would basically have all the great specs of a  high end phone, but paying half the price. You wouldn’t have to be on one of those payment plans or dish out a huge chunk of money at once.

Apple might not be too worried since the One Plus phones run on Android, and people like Apple for IOS. I don’t see many people running form IOS to Android to get their hands on this device, but Samsung, LG, and other companies who make devices for Android should be a little concerned. Samsung does make a wide variety of smartphones that range from $100-$900, but their cheaper phones have never been the greatest. It’ll be interesting to see ho well the One Plus 3 sells, and if it has any impact on Samsung’s sales or any other smartphone company.