Speaking of displays, I wonder how long before we might see diamond ones as a possibility (diamonds are grown kinda like sapphire is, and I mean they diamond coat all sorts of things these days).
I disagree that there's so many options. You've basically got flagship phones that each have their issues (I have yet to see any Android phone that consistently takes good pictures), midrange phones that are still overpriced (Moto X; or the Nexus devices usually all have at least one glaring thing that singlehandedly makes them not that good for the price), and then mostly junk for below that. The only reason the One Plus One has gotten so much publicity is because they basically were able to offer similar end result as the "flagships" (most of which are hugely overpriced) for a reasonable price (which I think we should have been seeing by the major players).
The G was even kinda overpriced overpriced unless you went for the 8GB version but that one was hamstrung to Verizon.
I will say I think Android is finally getting to where it should have been (and what it was promised to be pretty much all along by a lot of people). I wish companies would make true flagship phones (only don't do like Nokia where its got the hardware, but then they'll gimp it in stupid ways, like how with the same SoC and a better sensor, they only offer 1080p30 and 720p60 while the Note 3 offers 4K30 1080p60 and 720p120).
And no, don't get that as me saying Apple was doing it better (in some ways I do think they have, in others definitely not), or WP (which I don't hate but its got more than enough of its own issues, I will say its been doing the budget but not garbage smartphone better than Android has been though).
Now once we see multiple options for $200 and below phones, I'll gladly agree. In my opinion there shouldn't be any reason companies can't offer a 5" 720p 1GB/16GB (with SD support) decent camera LTE phone with an ok SoC (A53 based at this point) phone for around or even below $200 (maybe with a 2GB/32GB version for say $250). But we typically don't get them because they have to protect their flagship phones that aren't that much better.
The end result is that I think we could all be getting better phones than we have been at pretty much all price points. Thankfully it seems like we are slowly getting there though.
The only real "creativity" in Android phones has been giant screens and HTC's gimmicky second sensor (while they let the main sensor retain the flaws that make it a bad choice). Oh, and lameass watches!
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