5 reasons not to buy cheap android phones

Low quality Touch Screen

Budget android phones comes with a poor quality touch screen technology. These screens usually have lower resolutions that are below 480p by 320p. In addition, the poor quality screen suffers from responsive problems, not to mention the dead pixels which appear quite often oon low-quality Smartphones. Its high time to learn the importance of good screen in order to feel the true android experience. 

Low Quality Build Materials

Cheaper android phone come with poor quality build material, they need your careful attention. You would probably want to hold on to smartphone for a couple of years carefully. So there are big chances that you may drop it on a concrete floors or bump it a few times or even spill water on it.

High end smartphones are dust resistant or 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 make funny noises as you drop them for 1st time.

No Android Updates

We know how smartphone vendor 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 Android v4.0 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 on reason for which is poor processing speed and RAM; but would be gentle and manipulative in there case unlike how its 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 sometime 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 S3, HTC OneX and many high-end devices has it.

Single processors of less than 1 GHz 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 the currently open apps, ending in disabling one of the main features of android; multitasking. Cheap Android smartphones come with 512MBof RAM and less. As apps become bigger more RAM will be needed for which 1GB may become absolutely minimal.

Bands 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 names ones.

By Rishabh