Hands On with the ZTE Chorus for Cricket
Thoughts?
I wonder why we don't see more phones like this. It's win-win. Manufacturers can make much better feature phones for far less development cost. It makes it easier for carriers, too, who can put their custom carrier apps on phones like this, re-using most of the code they use for their full Android phones.
A good Android experience - including all third-party apps - requires a good screen, a good processor, and a certain amount of memory. All of those jack up costs. Plus wi-fi, a minimum 3-megapixel camera, capacitive screen, etc. When you go below that threshold, you can make the phone much cheaper, at the expense of being compatible with many third-party apps (or at least providing a good experience with them.)
Then there's the fact that casual users can easily install badly-written apps that trash the experience. The Android market is filled with apps that drain battery life and/or performance more than they should. S...
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That's a really good point. For me, however, a resistive touch screen and the lack of Wi-Fi immediately leave this device dead in the water.
I was initially very surprised to learn these aspects of the Chorus. I am not a fan of resistive touch screens and the fact that here is NO Wi-Fi is a head-scratcher. Wi-Fi is one of the main reasons people go with smartphones, in my experience. They just go hand-in-hand...
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