Counterpoint: Half of mid-rangers sold in Europe support 5G, but Huawei's departure increased prices
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- mandalaphone
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- 22 Jul 2021
Terminusaquo, 19 Jul 2021The average user only cares about specs, nothing else. They... moreThe majority of user don't even know what you are talking about.
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- 21 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 19 Jul 2021An average user doesn't care about gaming performance,... moreI hope whatever your commonly used apps are they're well optimized, because Android power creep is real and is especially bad in certain regions, meaning although apps don't provide much improved functionality they eat up more processing power due to lazy programming enabled through the advancement of SoC performance. My 2015 flagship, on Exynos 7420, basically refuses to run anything starting 2 years ago, its lag would render it unusable even if I closed all background apps except the keyboard(if you tweak a setting in developer mode to be aggressive enough it could lead to the keyboard terminating itself) the lag would be unusable, like loading/freezes for nearly a minute in a basic messaging app like Wechat. Currently I regard SD835 to be the bare minimum, it would run most apps, with a somewhat tolerable lag, but YMMV, some people claim a midrange from 5 years ago runs perfectly fine, that's never been the case from my experience.
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- Terminusaquo
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- 19 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 19 Jul 2021An average user doesn't care about gaming performance,... moreThe average user only cares about specs, nothing else. They look at a phone and unless it has a SD8xx processor in it then it's utter trash. That isn't true though as a lot of mid range devices are decent performers for their price
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- Anonymous
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- 19 Jul 2021
S Yu, 17 Jul 2021I've never used any midrange. I use flagships, the lat... moreAn average user doesn't care about gaming performance, benchmark scores or anything like that - they just need basic apps, good screen, good camera and a music player.
A Huawei P40 Lite here costs $150 -> camera results are on-part with an iPhone X at a fraction of the price, with significantly better battery life.
An old flagship phone is better than a new midrange phone ONLY in specific use cases - people need to pick that which fits their own needs, not the one someone else things they need.
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- 17 Jul 2021
mandalaphone, 17 Jul 2021Obviously you've never used a midrange Huawei.I've never used any midrange. I use flagships, the latest flagships in the past but now no longer necessary. Old flagships inherently have better value than new midrange.
Anyhow that's beside the point. Most review sites with proper methodology like GSMA and Notebookcheck will tell you the same, that some Xiaomi/Redmi has notably better value than a Huawei in the same price range.
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- mandalaphone
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- 17 Jul 2021
S Yu, 16 Jul 2021I would say a thousand times that 5G is a total gimmick, at... moreObviously you've never used a midrange Huawei.
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- bulbulito.bayagbag
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- 17 Jul 2021
Of course, this has got to do with Huawei's demise with the ban. As this created a void where Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Realme and OnePlus will fill. The biggest loser of course is Huawei. In my home country, the philippines, even Tecno, which only came in last year, already has beaten Huawei in terms of market share. That's what Huawei is now.
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- 16 Jul 2021
Victor Sol, 15 Jul 2021You see now they where supporting US ban now we all see the... moresuffer how? Huawei is a small player in USA market before the ban. china have no issue with monopoly, why could USA be the same.
new phone expensive? just buy the previous generation used or new. you get better price/value for andriod phone since they drop price fast.
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- Heisnberg
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- 16 Jul 2021
The market is better off without CCP's beloved company. This is just another manipulating article, meant to please all the Chinese shills present in this comment section (which I'm 100% sure they're as real as those bots from Twitter that posted Huawei propaganda). Also, prices weren't affected at all. And Huawei didn't release a decent sub-300$ since 2017-2018. There's Xiaomi, Motorola, Nokia that can fulfil the need for mid-rangers.
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- S Yu
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- 16 Jul 2021
I would say a thousand times that 5G is a total gimmick, at least for years to come.
And Xiaomi on average has far lower prices than Huawei, Huawei's non-flagships are known for very poor value(many Nova devices), so whatever the reason for this trend it's not them.
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- 15 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 15 Jul 2021Well, tell that to all the id*ts on this site, that are hap... moreBut Huawei is just as greedy and arguably bad as all of those companies tho?
If competition was truly an issue with these decisions, these governments would enact policies to break up these companies monopolies in the industry... But sadly only cricket noises happen :/
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- 15 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 15 Jul 2021Well, tell that to all the id*ts on this site, that are hap... moreThat, and the USA was the most affected, they lasted several months with few Xiaomi present there due to the investment ban, only the duopoly remained en masse
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- Marko
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- 15 Jul 2021
But here is almost no 5g avability...funny
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- 15 Jul 2021
Anonymous, 15 Jul 2021Well, tell that to all the id*ts on this site, that are hap... moreDon't be surprised if Xiaomi gets banned and Samsung has supplies issues.
You will see only Apple and feature phones.
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- 15 Jul 2021
Well, tell that to all the id*ts on this site, that are happy whenever a company is leaving the mobile industry.
Having only Samsung, Apple and Xiaomi as important manufacturers, will make prices go higher and innovation and excitement lower.
I am out of here.
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- Victor Sol
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- 15 Jul 2021
You see now they where supporting US ban now we all see the consequences even the Us is suffering from this ban too yet they believe Huawei is not needed anymore because of a little disagreement that can be settled amicably, hmmmmmm.......