Buying a mid-ranger every year vs. a flagship every other one

In the today scenario flagships are so cool, but smartphones these days are modern advanced and innovative. So would it actually make more sense to do some mid-range bargain shopping and upgrade more often? There is a question in it.

Technology today is changing day by day and evolving rapidly and slaving to a device is one of the poor choices which anyone can make in life.

Huawei and Xiaomi are some of the few manufacturers that keep expanding their market share due to the affordable smartphone segment in the market. But they do not produce cheap disposable phones – they actually deliver a solid experience with advanced features. Redmi Note 5 AI Dual Camera, launched in February 2018, has a better performing camera, more RAM, and bigger battery than the Xiaomi Mi 5s which is a better flagship in its day.

HTC U12+

Some of the people nowadays just have one thing in mind that there is only two brand that is Apple or Samsung flagships which do not offer any mind-blowing innovations every year and it’s not worth the upgrade from last year’s model.

Huawei P20 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S9+

The OnePlus 3 and 3T, for example, has only got three major updates since it is released in the market in the year 2016. On the processor department, some mid-range devices carry a bit outdated chipsets which further shorten their part of life cycles. Let’s take the example of Huawei P20 Lite and Samsung Galaxy J5 (2017). The company uses a 2016 SoC announced back in the month of February while the device was released in the year 2017 in June. Huawei’s P20 Lite runs on the processor of mid-tier HiSilicon Kirin 659 chip, which is basically the same old SoC with slightly higher CPU clocks than the Kirin 650, 655 and 658.

LG V30s ThinQ

As far as the cost of the flagship phones goes, I can’t deny the fact that it has been steadily climbing up over the years, but so is the price of a decent mid-range handset. So at the end of the day, buying two mid-range smartphones over the course of two years is pretty much the same as just like buying a high-end smartphone and keeping it for two years.

What you can’t put a price on and get from a mid-range, though, is the premium feel, features and overall user experience that usually go with a high-end device.