Huawei's $200 Honor 7X is the future of the smartphone industry
Within a few years, vertical integration by Chinese mega manufacturers will drive the price of flagship-class Android phones down to commodity levels.
Within a few years, vertical integration by Chinese mega manufacturers will drive the price of flagship-class Android phones down to commodity levels.
On the eve of smartphones becoming cheap for everyone, President Donald Trump wants to ruin it.
Today it's the $100 value handset. Tomorrow it will be the $200 premium smartphone. There's nothing left for the traditional device OEMs with those kind of margins. Huawei, ZTE, Xiaomi and Lenovo are coming, and Apple and Samsung can't stop them.
While Cupertino and Mountain View are enjoying their war of attrition over handset market share, a chilling wind comes blowing from Shenzen.
This $199 handset is loaded with features and should satisfy any consumer on a budget looking for value in an Android phone.
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Partnerships between carriers and cloud service providers, SaaS and content providers and between drop-in OS vendors running on commodity low-cost smartphones will define the future of the mobile industry and create prime differentiation between handset offerings.
The problem comes down to industry commoditization.
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