Buying a Chinese phone not made for western market? Think twice.
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I started following these videos on YouTube a couple of weeks ago and find them very interesting regarding life in China. Have a quick watch of this if you are thinking of throwing your hard earned after what you think is a bargain mobile imported from China.
Of course there are the lucky few who get a good handset and have no problems, but I know of a lot of people who's handsets have failed in one way or other after just a few months and this video goes a long way to explaining why you are taking a gamble.
All of them made in China or not? At least the parts....come from there...You can get this result with any phone..
I agree, anything mass manufactured is made cheaply in China, unless (like game consoles) the product will sometimes be sold at a loss to make money on the other sister products like games which generate greater revenue.
Even top of the range branded phones have crappy elements or poor design. I remember bendy i phones and exploding Samsung batteries!
If companies use cheap mass manufacturing and keep competing to get out slight modified handsets they will eventually reach a saturation point where the perks of replacing an old hand set are outweighed by the ridiculousness of the excessive cost for nothing more than an extra millimetre of screen and a phone that has errors because it's been rushed to market.
Now I wait for them to resolve the issues before buying a console or phone. I don't see the point in dealing with the red light of death on a console or exploding components until the companies making them have fixed the bugs 6 weeks after their release!
Made in China
So this is how it works:
China - No Quality Control (or very little)
Western - Quality Control
I've never ordered a phone from Aliexpress as there's just no real reason to when you can buy a good one within UK (or Europe).
Yup, same model phone, same company, just if you want to save some cash buying the Asian model instead of the one built for export then you could get lucky or you could end up with a faulty phone due to inferior parts used when they run out on the production line. Say they run out of NFC chips, they will just go and get some from a back street seller selling dodgy chips and stick them in, suddenly people with that phone realise their NFC is naff or does not work at all, same goes for any other part within the phone, just luck of the draw.
Personally I would never buy an expensive product from those sites, I used to buy all sorts from DX or Focal Price years ago but basically just cheap fun stuff like earth magnets and other items for a few quid, but spending £100+ on a Chinese website with no warranty or even money back if it fails to arrive is too much of a gamble for me.
CashoutCarl this is something I actually never thought of till this post of yours.
How 'Made on China' has such a difference between China and the Western World.
Given the human rights abuses that occur in the manufacture of expensive brand name handsets (using child labour), I dread to think what even less scrupulous companies do to cut corners.
If only CB's came with internet!
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