Why Midrange Phones Are Now Better Than Flagships

Phones like the Nokia 7 Plus are becoming really solid, while flagships focus on notches, motorized cameras and drop headphone jacks... (The Story Behind - Ep. 35)

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[devchawla]

Why midrange youtubers are better than flagship youtubers???

[Erowens]

The lack of a headphone jack has absolutely nothing to do with how thin a device is. Case in point, the thinnest phone in the world. The Vivo x5, has a headphone jack. Removing the headphone jack is 100% a financially motivated decision, there is no practical reason to not have it.

[mikelieberman]

I am part of the 1.6% of viewers, as I am over 65 years of age. I always buy a mid-range phone as it has made sense to me for a long time. But I have found as of late the mid-range phones have gotten better and better. This past month I moved from an Asus Zenphone 3 to a Huawei Nova 3i. I was immediately impressed with the longer battery life even though the Nova3i battery is smaller than the Zenphone 3. As week after I got my new phone it was upgraded from Android Oreo (8) to Android Pie (9). Speed, sensitivity on the screen and the fingerprint scanner are far better. The screen is as sharp as I need it. And I really don't need photos larger than the 11MB JPG files it creates. It is out performing my wife's iPhone 7 Pro as to speed, WiFi signal reading and 4G bars. It comes with 128GB storage and I can double that it I want, but I will never need more. All for a phone I got without cost when I renewed my cellphone contract with my provider. Sure there are going to be better cameras; I don't need it. There will be phones with better displays; wasted on my and my eyes. And the rest? Hey, I'm happy.

[alexyiu]

Finally there is a logical thinker on YouTube.

[kimakhiangte]

But remember, don't ever buy Samsung's mid-range and budget smartphones. You'll regret it.

[topsecretnk]

Some years ago 400 dollar was a flagship price...

[faustin]

Crazy times we're living in today....when a 4Gb RAM mobile phone is considered MID-RANGE. In my time, a 2Gb laptop was a monster!

[jasonhatt]

1.8K people disliked this video on their Flagship Phones

[HunterR]

>when you realize you've been watching a commercial for 5 minutes

[VirantRoss]

I would NEVER SPEND $1000 ON a phone! You can ALWAYS get a great device under $300!

[DheerajBhaskar]

" living that mid-range life" 😂😂😂

[kishita]

"And it even comes with a silicon case"




*JUST IN "CASE"*

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[randomware]

It's like cars, the flagships aren't for the everyday people anymore

[fkmui]

Why midrange ? simple :
1. metal body
2. type c
3. 3.5 mm audio jack
4. 4000 mah battery
5. fast charging
6. more low power processor but still has the speed like the flagship processor

[JG_]

I've been thinking the same thing recently to be honest. I got my phone a couple years ago and since then I've been pretty out of the loop in terms of the most recent developments. But I've been looking into getting a new phone in the near future, and I'm just now hearing about how most companies are now getting rid of the headphone jack, and moving from a traditional finger print scanner to a finger print scanner that's under the display. This annoys me because as cool as it is to have a finger print scanner under the glass, ultimately it's just not necessary. If anything, I'd even go so far as to call it a gimmick. It isn't in anyway more convenient than a regular finger print scanner, in fact, in most cases it's actually slower. I personally would much rather have a headphone jack then finger print scanner that happens to be positioned under the glass. Same goes for wireless charging, some phones get major hate for not having wireless charging, and I never understood why. Isn't the whole point of making something wireless is that it's less cumbersome and allows for a more free range of movement? But with wireless charging, you can't move your phone at all.. so what's the point? And the most ironic part to me, the the device you need to rest your phone on for it to charge wirelessly LITERALLY HAS A WIRE. Plus it's not even faster then just regular fast charging. I think as humans we love to see progression and we get infatuated with new tech without even stopping to consider the actual real life applications.

[moneymoney]

6:59 most of us are university age because when we were creating our accounts at for example 9 we put the age to 18 (or we put that we were born in 1995 etc.)

[RenatoLaporte]

I always like the titles of your videos because it makes me think of the answer before I watch it and afterwards I can see if I was right or not.

Well, my opinion here before watching the video:

Because flagships are focusing on being a luxury thing, bold design to make a statement that there is only one of it's kind.

While the mid-range is focussing on usability, making the smartphone better tools for our daily use instead of a piece of shiny slippery curved glass with sliding cameras and idk what more.

[imnotusingmyrealname]

Nokia is back in the game! I own an original Nokia 6 which I got for €175 and I like it a lot.

[ebig]

add waterproofing? I just want my removable battery back