Low Budget Android Phones - Worth It or Not?

Android is the largest platform which powers almost 70% of the smartphones all over the world. A unique feature of Android is that, it is available for the devices of all the budgets. Android devices ranges from Rs.5,000 to Rs.50,000. But, up-to previous year, buying a low budget Android phone was like wasting your money. These low budget Android devices were not giving the performance as expected by the user for the cast he paid. Using such low performance smartphones makes the user more unhappy.

But, this year, some good low-budget smartphones were released bye several mobile companies such as Nokia, Motorola, Micromax, etc. Many of these phones are having a great success in the market. Motorola's Moto E, which costs Rs.6,999, went out of stock in market in first week only. It is the most successful smartphone in this year until now. This indicates that, nowadays companies are trying to make low-budget smartphones which are having good features as well as hardware specifications and will satisfy the user for the cost he paid. But, we can't expect some features form these phones. So, low budget Android phones are worth it or not depends on the expectations of user.

What we can expect from low-budget Android Smartphones :

• Screen : When we consider the screen, these smartphones don't come with high-resolution screen having different viewing angles and scratch resistant material. But, Moto E is having scratch resistant Gorilla glass. So, upcoming phones also might have scratch resistant screen. But still, you will have to compromise with the resolution.
• Performance : When it comes to the performance, it is the criteria where these phones are rejected.Until last year, low-budget smartphones were giving the worst performance. But now, some smartphones give a satisfying performance. Generally, we can expect dual core processor and at max 1 GB RAM from these phones which is sufficient for general daily use of the phones and for running some simple games and softwares. But, if you want to play high-end games, then these are not the options for you.
• Camera : In this criteria also, these phones are not so good. Though the company claim 5 MP camera, it's processor, resolution and less scarcity of effects makes it useless. So, you can't expect good quality photos and video recordings from these phones. If you don't have craze about photography, then you can consider these phones.
• Battery : The phone is having low processor and less performance doesn't mean that it will be having a good battery life. Generally, these phones comes with a battery around 2000mAh which can power them for a day easily.
• Softwares : Well, low-budget smartphones don't get any software updates from the company. You can to use them on the initial firmware only. But, Moto E comes with the latest Android KitKat firmware. This is a great feature of this phone. Android phones of Nokia are also having different and attractive UI and some microsoft supported softwares. In case of softwares, less internal memory doesn't allow you to use more softwares and low RAM doesn't allow to use these softwares at a time i.e. multi-tasking is not so good on these phones.
• Storage : Low internal storage is the biggest problem with low-budget smartphones. You can get maximum internal storage of 4 GB out of which only 2.1 GB is actually usable. This limits the user to download software and games. Though softwares can be moves to external SD, such softwares are very less. To move all the softwares to external SD, you will have to root the phone.

You Should Buy A Low-Budget Android If -

• You need a phone for basic functioning such as calling, SMS, mailing, etc.
• You don't like to play games or you don't play the high-end games. You can play simple games such as Angry Birds, Candy Crush on these phones.
• You don't have much interest in photography and low quality photos are acceptable to you.
• You are having access to tech-savvy users, so that you can manually update you phone and can move the softwares to external SD.

You Should Not Buy A Low-Budget Android If -

• If you want to play high-end games and you use many softwares at a time.
• If you like to download newly released games and applications.
• If you have a good interest in photography and shoot photos at all times to capture some amazing moments.

Thus, low-budget Android smartphones are not for everyone. But, for basic users they are really good. Newly released smartphones such as Moto E, Nokia XL, etc are good for such users.