There was a time, not so long ago ditto, where to the question What is the cheap mobile that I can buy?, or even the best phone in quality price, the answer almost without discussion had a country of origin: China. Times have changed and the answer today not only isn’t so clear, but there’s one stepping on the accelerator: the Google Pixel A. If the Google Pixel 6A is a splendid contender, the Google Pixel 7a raises the bar.
Chinese mobiles are changing… and that’s not bad
The Chinese mobile strategy (leaving aside Huawei) is inevitably affected by its most popular firm: Xiaomi. Explaining Xiaomi’s success in Europe in a decade is easy: offers amazing features for its price. If you’re wondering how he makes money if he started with cheap phones, the key is that they’re the trojan of his entire ecosystem.
Then other brands arrived who, aware of the tough competition and the barrier to entry represented by these adjusted prices, opted for quality price as bastionServe as an example Realme or one that was a brand Satellite from Huawei (now independent and with Google services), Honor.
The battle was different in each range but in the end the key to the most ruthless market (the range between 200 and 300 dollars, the budget of almost half of the Spanish population, according to a study by Milanuncios collected in La Sexta) is that if A is better than B and the neighbor offers A for 200 dollars, it is difficult for you to compete with B for 250. If you wanted to compete with Xiaomi, you had to go through the mud and with him POCO X3 Pro Xiaomi has broken the bridge. Today, this strategy is a thing of the past.
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But it’s been a while since “Chinese” on mobile isn’t synonymous with a good deal. There are several reasons, but the main one is that they no longer need to gain a foothold: they have already done so, they have evolved and they are ready to fight head to head with the best in the market. It has its logic: risking everything on the price factor to get known is a plan that makes sense initially, but once this phase is over, it makes no sense sell your technology.
The OPPO, Realme, OnePlus, Xiaomi or even Honor are already mature in the West. And it shows: they are able to compete for the best phone of the year with their Xiaomi 13 Pro or with the OPPO Find X5 Pro (with the OPPO Find X6 Pro as a starting point), but it’s That innovation and the integration of the latest, most recent and most expensive novelties. This is not necessarily bad news, quite the contrary: the fact that there are more top brands that offer alternatives and serious competition favors those of us who consume them.
You will no longer find a terminal with a high-end Snapdragon chip at 250 dollars
But if you are looking for cheap mobiles for China, bad news: You will no longer find a terminal with a high-end Snapdragon chip at 250 dollars because it was simply an impossible proposition from the point of view of numbers. However, I want to point out something: we tend to think that cheap mobiles are those with beastly hardware for what they cost, but that’s a misleading perception.
First of all because not everything is material (as long as they give you a smooth user experience) and second, because there are those who don’t prioritize performance above all else.Because maybe you don’t need more. So, for example, even the spectacular POCO F3 had its camera as its Achilles’ heel. A truism that deserves to be remembered: good business does not mean perfect.
The best competition comes from Mountain View
Precisely to contradict this mantra of potential on everything there’s the Google Pixel A. The Pixel 6a specifically has the Google Tensor chip and 6GB of RAM which, in our experience, delivers a solvent performance that doesn’t offer issues with games, apps, or 3D graphics. A dazzling technical sheet attracts from the start, but if another more modest a priori complies then there is not “Nothing to complain about on a daily basis“, for what else? A thorough review of your review makes us exceptional in virtually every facet. The balance is good, but it has two winning shots to take anyone to the canvas in quality price.
The first key is in the brand, and that is that the shadow of the big G cypress is long and guarantees exclusive Android functions and three-year update support for the system and five years in security patches , just behind Apple, the top of the range of Samsung and recently, the best of OnePlus. In the case of the Pixels, it doesn’t matter whether you buy their A-models or their flagships. First Right Hook: Up-to-date software guaranteed for years.
There’s one thing that most of the best camera phones on the market have in common: they’re usually high-end. Or what amounts to the same thing: that good photos are worth the money. In the middle of so many proposals that invite you to dig your pocket is the Google Pixel 6a with a 9. Google shows once again that a dazzling technical sheet is not necessary in terms of megapixels and sensors, because they are sufficient and exceed with their processing power. Jaw hook.
The total knockout comes with the price: 459 dollars which, although they move away from this range preferred by Spanish citizens, suffer from time to time (as is the watchword in Android) a good reduction of around 100 dollars quite usual . I don’t even know how many times I had to warn potential buyers. It might be slightly out of the comfort zone, but when we take into account that it rivals much more expensive phones when it comes to camera and upgrades, we’ve got a bargain with all of them. letters.
And the Google Pixel 7a? Apart from the necessary hardware renovations such as the jump to the Tensor G2 chip or 8 GB of RAM, they would reach where it is most needed, on the screen (the least valued in our analysis with an 8.5). It is rumored to feature a 6.1-inch AMOLED panel that will go up to 90Hz. Generally speaking, this points to a conservative renewal that will be a bombshell to keep prices down. Although the new Google Pixel 7a would continue in the ointment as a cheap mobile with an increase sensitiveconsidering the general increase.
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