The $50 Pantech Flex might have fetched $200 or more last year.
(Credit: Pantech)
commentary Take a look at the recent Android smartphone announcements from the middle of 2012 and you'll see quite a few devices at $99 or below. Does this mean that consumers are being subjected to a barrage of shoddy hardware with poor specifications? Hardly.
Funny how fast things move These days, a dual-core smartphone with a 960x540-pixel display counts as entry level, but it wasn't all that long ago that this screen resolution merited a high-end device. Remember the Droid Bionic? That thing cost $299 when it arrived just one year ago, and only offered consumers a 1GHz dual-core processor, 512MB RAM, and a 960x540-pixel qHD display. Widely considered one of the smartphone options for its time, the hardware pales in comparison to today's low-priced alternatives.
Defining today's 'entry-level' Android While the typical low-end Android phone commonly features a single-core processor, we're increasingly finding dual-core 1GHz CPUs, or faster, in the bargain bins. On the memory front we see that the days of 384MB RAM are behind us, as many of today's Android phones come with 512M... [Read more]
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