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Originally Posted by pl001
The "non-premium" phones are where most of the remaining market is. Phone fanboys of all types tend to dismiss these phones as junk and they would have been correct a couple years ago. But that is not the case today. For example, the Moto G and Nokia 520 are truly good phones offering a good user experience and are fully capable of doing what most people need a smartphone to do. The 520 goes for less than $100 off-contract, the Moto G $180. Both are incredible values. Apple has nothing to compete in this important and rapidly growing market.
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Agree. There are quite a number of decent phones in the $100-250 range nowadays. Before, $200 would only get you a crappy ARM11 with 512MB storage (50-100MB usable) which barely runs Froyo/Eclair. Nowadays, the same will get you dual-core with Jelly Bean and at least 4GB storage (~2GB usable). If you go for off-brand Chinese stuff, you'd get quad-core all sorts of additional features for that price. Granted, aside from quality control (or lack thereof), battery life appears to be a concern.