Never buy Cheap Android Phone

A recent report by comScore stated that many Smartphone buyers are aimed at budget-friendly phones rather than craving for top-end Android ones. But if you want to stick to basic options like making calls, texting and limited web browsing, you might be better off with a feature phone instead. Today Android phones are available for as low as 1600. While targeting cheap Android phones is an obvious matter, you should look out for main reasons that let you down here.

Low quality touch screens

Budget based Android phones come with poor touch screen technology. These screens usually have lower resolutions that are below 480 by 320p. In addition, the poor quality screens suffer from responsive problems, not to mention the ‘dead pixels’ which appear quiet often on low-quality Smartphones. It’s high time to learn the importance of good screen in order to feel the true Android experience. If you are facing problems to navigate around apps or if the movies and games are not clear enough, you lose out on all the fun and probably get bored or annoyed quickly.

Low-Quality Build Materials

Cheaper Android phones come with poor quality build materials. They need your careful attention. You would probably want to hold on to a Smartphone for a couple of years carefully. So there are big chances that you may drop it on concrete floors or bump it a few times or even spill water on it.

High-end Smartphones are dust resistant and even water-proof certified at times. They come with IP₅₅ and IP6₇ certifications to prove the same. Gorilla Glass is a kind of material that these high-end Smartphones possess. Most low-end Smartphones start squeaking and make funny types of noise as you drop them for the first time.

No Android Updates

We know how Smartphone vendors are notoriously late in providing Android updates to their top-of-the-line Smartphones. Samsung’s budget friendly Galaxy Ace could not think of getting updated to Android 4.0 as soon as possible. The same goes for any other major Smartphone manufacturer; updates are provided to their Smartphones and even then, come a lot later than they should. If your lower end Smartphone does not get the Android update, the producer may emphasize probably on reason 4 which is poor processing speed and RAM; but would be gentle and manipulative in their case unlike how’s it’s been told to you here.

Low Speed single core processors + not enough RAM

It is a fact that dual-core processors have been available on high-end Smartphones for some time and quad-core processor phones like the HTC Butterfly have hit the stores. As the processing power of Android phones has increased, more apps are being constructed on multiple cores. Android games are also grabbing the advantage of advanced GPUs. Galaxy S2, Motorola Droid RAZR and many high-end Android devices has it.

Single-core processors of less than 1GHz usually come in cheap Android phones for which you won’t have the most graphically advanced games of today. If you choose to go down the ‘dirt-cheap road’, you will not have hardware that is good to run the current top apps, not to mention the apps that will be designed to take advantage of the processing power of the current high-end Smartphones.

Low amount of RAM can block a Smartphone to the point where the Android OS will automatically kill apps in the background to open up more RAM for currently open apps, ending in disabling one of the main features of Android: multitasking. Cheap Android Smartphones come with 512MB of RAM and less. As apps become bigger, more RAM will be needed for which 1GB may become absolutely minimal.

Brands And Price

This rule doesn’t stand true always. Some small vendors release decent Android budget tablets as well as some big brands release crappy low end phones, once in a while. However, a low end phone from a trusted vendor is always better than the ‘no-name’ ones.

Instead if you are looking for cheaper Android Smartphones, several occasions like the GOSF (Google’s Online Shopping Festival) pops up once in a while, where you can get some handy devices at low price and you will get exactly what you pay for.