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Obviously, you can’t overgeneralize. But in general, if a product is more expensive, usually more money was put into making it. This can mean more research, better manufacturing technology, better quality, or can mean more marketing and advertising, which doesn’t actually improve the product.

When it comes to Chinese electronics, most of them are built on the same SoC, so there can’t be huge differences, but as I said in a different thread, I would be very careful with the regulations to which a device abides.

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How do they compare to geekbuying.com? I’ve been hearing about this site and I’m about to place an order.

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I would be very careful when buying a cell phone from China. I would personally only buy from big companies such as Huawei. The reason is the following: to release a product to the market, it has to pass some tests, and the testing itself is quite expensive. These regulations set a maximum level for things such as radiation. And since some of the companies sell the phones so cheaply, they have to skip some of these tests. In most cases, the devices are not compliant with the regulations.

Another problem is the absolutely terrible chargers these phones come with. I would replace them with different one from day one (problems such as unstable power output).

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Cheap usually means that the materials used in manufacturing are worse, less money is spent on research, and the actual design of the device is as great as in the case of other devices.

But there’s something called the law of diminishing returns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns) which covers the price distribution in most markets. Rather than spending a lot of money on a Samsung Galaxy S3/4, by spending a lot less money, you can get something that just a little bit worse.

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I also used to watch football (you call it soccer, but it’s really called football in the English speaking world). Nowadays I only watch some of Arsenal’s games every once in a while. Their downfall probably has something to do with my dwindling interest in football.

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ainolsupporter wrote:

I don’t think I’d buy one of these. Can’t you achieve the same results with a tablet connected through the HDMI port?

Basically there are only 3-4 SOCs on the market at any one time, and these get used in all devices from tablets, to TV Sticks to netbooks. So a tablet is almost the same thing, with a screen bolted on top.

On the other hand, they are getting very cheap compared to anything else, for 40 dollars you can get the MK808, which is an RK3066 dual core device. I intend to buy one to use as a low power PC, should be using less than 3W in full load, compared to 100 – 200W for a regular PC.

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Quite surprisingly though, most smartphones that come with Android aren’t even closely free or open source software, and that’s without taking into consideration firmware and drivers. There are few alternative sources for completely free Android : Replicant, and CyanogenMod (more or less).

But even so, I’m not a fan of Android, in fact I despise it, because it doesn’t give the owner full control over the device. That’s why I’m always try to install a complete Linux system on all my devices. Only then can you call them computers.

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