$99.99 Umidigi G9 5G has a 50 MP main camera, 5,000 mAh battery, and 128GB of storage
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IpsDisplay, 20 Apr 2024How the hell are entry level devices getting 8GB ram what t... moreRAM are getting cheaper nowadays, that's why.
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Anonymous, 20 Apr 2024Because they want to stay up to date.Then maybe increase their budget? You can get both great software and hardware with that price. (Even Samsung at that pricing only gives you 2 OS updates, technically 1 since A0x series always starts with 1 OS older than the rest lineup).
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Anonymous, 20 Apr 2024I thought it used the T820. Maybe I'm wrong.Yep it is. Both are 5G, though.
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- 20 Apr 2024
Mills, 20 Apr 2024T765, 90hz LCD and 128GB is not a bad deal for 100 USD. For... morerather not adding 10 bucks more to get rotten redmi phone that tests people's patience.
disgusting specs for the price tbh. helio g36 is basically p35 which is a 6 year old low midrange chipset !! that phone is already chugging out of the box 😂😂😂 the A05 is quite acceptable, good for casual use. but if i focus more on better specs like faster chipset and storage type i'd give it a pass.
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potato4k, 20 Apr 2024$100 with UFS. So, Oppo, Xiaomi, etc no longer have any exc... morethe cons of umidigi phones are aftersales and repairability.
finding proper parts for certain phone models is quite challenging when it comes to umidigi, doogee, and cubot. (cmiiw) but yeah, if xiaomi, vivo and oppo had their interest on using unisoc chips then they would sell it fairly cheap.
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- 20 Apr 2024
MindTheGap, 20 Apr 2024With this pricing, how tf can people still complains about ... morebecause software update fanatics would think less updates would brick the phone itself which is a myth that are still believed by them to this day
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$100 with UFS. So, Oppo, Xiaomi, etc no longer have any excuses making a phone with eMMC.
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IpsDisplay, 20 Apr 2024How the hell are entry level devices getting 8GB ram what t... moreEither by having some other crucial piece of hardware be crap (like Tecno Spark 20C with a Helio G36 resulting in slow app opening times - though the UI doesn't seem to run too bad from what i've seen in stores) or being designed by an ODM instead of in house (Lava, Blu. Oukitel and Umidigi/Keysmart too but they are kind of an exception - they are the ODM)
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Dr. Stephen Strange, 20 Apr 2024These are good for back up phone. But unisoc chips are vuln... moreunisoc chips is pretty good now. you can use them as long be careful of what you have download something from the internet. only cons with the unisoc chips are poor optimization.
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biezetta, 20 Apr 2024Entry level phones these days are pretty good (for that pri... moreHow the hell are entry level devices getting 8GB ram what the hell is going on
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-, 20 Apr 2024Coming out on about....half a year probably
From Umidigi... morehttps://community.umidigi.com/portal.php?mod=view&aid=597
Some of the other things announced. You can actually order the Active T1 Pro tablet on Global Sources right now if you have at least $600,000
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MindTheGap, 20 Apr 2024With this pricing, how tf can people still complains about ... moreBecause they want to stay up to date.
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MindTheGap, 20 Apr 2024Btw the Unisoc 5G processor has been used previously in the... moreI thought it used the T820. Maybe I'm wrong.
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Minu, 20 Apr 2024Especially given that the low end and every level models ha... moreIn 2022 I bought a tcl 306 an entry level phone at about £100 3gb of ram 32gb storage, ads in the os, 60hz screen and a 13mp camera
Now for similar price you can get 128gb storage 6gb ram 90hz screen 50mp camera
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BTW i presume that super cheap price might be for ODM partner orders? Think "$100 for 3000 pieces" or something like that
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Coming out on about....half a year probably
From Umidigi's Chinese website it seems like G6x, G6 5G and A16 series are also coming. Who knows if they actually reach normal sales channels or if they just get dumped to Global Sources like their A15 Ultra
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These are good for back up phone. But unisoc chips are vulnerable regrading data and remote crash at least till early 2023. Don't know the status now.
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Entry level phones these days are pretty good (for that price point of course). I got a new phone for only ~$100 and it uses unisoc T606 (one step down from this umidigi phone, no 5G, but still decently fast), 8GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and 5000mAh battery. Just imagine, only a few years ago, I bought a phone for slightly more than $100 with only 3GB RAM and 32GB storage. Sure, the build quality might be questionable, but at least to me, my cheap phones lasted for more than 2 years (even I'm still using that old 3GB RAM phone as my secondary device). The performance has been good enough for most basic tasks, hiccups and slow downs are certainly present, but the work is still done in the end and that's what matters to me. What a time to be alive, I'm really grateful for that.
Edit: oh and I never really bothered with software updates. Updates often broke features for the phones in that price segment. Security patches may still be behind, but so far it has been still okay.
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IpsDisplay, 19 Apr 2024Too bad gsmarena doesn't cover entry level smartphones... moreEspecially given that the low end and every level models have ballooned with specs compared to last year, or even a few months!
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Mills, 20 Apr 2024T765, 90hz LCD and 128GB is not a bad deal for 100 USD. For... moreStill, this phone is the better deal if they used UFS instead of eMMC