Top 5 Reasons Not to Consider buying a Chinese Branded Android Smartphone

It runs on the latest version of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, ohhhh! Will it get its upgrade to KitKat or future OS versions? The answer is always uncertain as phone dealers tend to push Chinese branded smartphones to consumers due to higher sales margin and low cost. In fact, these cheap smartphones might not even see day light for the latest OS updates, even if it does get to see Android 4.4 KitKat this point of time, there’s no guarantee that the phones will get to have OS updates in the next two years.

Let’s face it, Chinese smartphones have their user experience very much ripped off from many other branded smartphone makers (*cough Apple *cough), we are not saying it’s good over here but you really get frustrated after using the ripped off experience after for sometime. In addition, some of these rip offs may not translate to practical usage for the user, which totally defeats the purpose of buying the product. An example would be buying a nice pair of shoes and you’re able to walk with it but slips on wet floor. Established branded smartphones have really come a long way in perfecting their user experience from research and they always provide a much more polished user experience than Chinese branded smartphones.

Chinese smartphone makers are still relatively new in the market here, and when their phones are already priced that cheap, after sales service is where most of them tend to compromise – by setting up limited number of service centres and drop off points in the country, hiring staffs that do not handle their customers well. If there should be one day that a major smartphone issue occur, we really can’t imagine how well they are able to handle it.

Low price, low margin and high costs, that’s what we always hear from many Chinese smartphone makers that tends to sell limited amount of stock for very high demand smartphones. We certainly understand that due to logistics and manufacturing demand issues, stock levels are always limited on their side. Therefore, most of them tend to resort to sell their products online rather than store retailers. By resorting to this way of selling their products, Chinese smartphone manufacturers could really save a bunch of costs, but at the end of the day, it pisses off customers that wanted to buy they products so badly and the number of scalpers increases as well. Chinese smartphone manufacturers are always using innovative ways of marketing their products rather than conventional marketing, however customers really don’t mind having a better product purchasing experience by paying slightly more.

We are not trying to be racist over here, but ask yourselves, have you ever seen any Chinese branded smartphones with a unique piece of design? Of course, they may have the same amazing build quality as opposed to branded flagships, Chinese branded smartphones are sadly again – rip offs in product design. With rip offs, the product design and user experience of the phone don’t go well together, which will cause confusion and frustration, thus it is a loss for the consumers who have paid for it despite having purchased at a cheap price. Furthermore, there could be some design flaws which is being inherited from the ripped off design, and it doesn’t make sense to possess that if you already know it exist.

Lastly, we simply want consumers to be smarter when choosing their smartphone, Chinese branded smartphones are really great at times and makes you wonder why you should pay more to get a branded name on your smartphone when it works really well. However, you should always be a smart consumer to consider the top 5 reasons that we’ve mentioned above to ensure you haven’t been cheated into buying a cheaply builtAndroid smartphone.