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You don't have to buy an Apple iPhone 6S or Samsung Galaxy Note 5 to get a decent phone anymore.
ZTE, Alcatel OneTouch and Huawei, a trio of Chinese companies you probably never heard of, have been busy at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas trying to prove that point. And while they may not offer all the bells and whistles of, say, Apple's flagship phone, they get the job done.
Increasingly, that's good enough. That's because the gap between top-of-the line and mid-tier phones is shrinking. Differences between camera quality and processor speeds, for example, are fairly small these days. Good enough has added benefit of price, since carriers now want you to pay the full cost of that spiffy, new phone right from the get-go. So where a basic iPhone 6S will set you back $650, you can spend half that for many of these Chinese phones.
It's telling that they're making a splash at CES, which isn't typically a big showcase for phones. But these companies realize the importance of getting their name out in the biggest electronics show of the year.
New Chinese phones: Cheaper and good enough - CNET
Would you use one?
You don't have to buy an Apple iPhone 6S or Samsung Galaxy Note 5 to get a decent phone anymore.
ZTE, Alcatel OneTouch and Huawei, a trio of Chinese companies you probably never heard of, have been busy at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas trying to prove that point. And while they may not offer all the bells and whistles of, say, Apple's flagship phone, they get the job done.
Increasingly, that's good enough. That's because the gap between top-of-the line and mid-tier phones is shrinking. Differences between camera quality and processor speeds, for example, are fairly small these days. Good enough has added benefit of price, since carriers now want you to pay the full cost of that spiffy, new phone right from the get-go. So where a basic iPhone 6S will set you back $650, you can spend half that for many of these Chinese phones.
It's telling that they're making a splash at CES, which isn't typically a big showcase for phones. But these companies realize the importance of getting their name out in the biggest electronics show of the year.
New Chinese phones: Cheaper and good enough - CNET
Would you use one?