Should You Pay Rs. 40,000+ For A Phone?
My Mobile|October 2015
There Was a time when you had to pay a premium price to get a high end smartphone. However with the emergence of a new breed of players, the whole price-performance equation has been turned on its head. Making us wonder: Does it make sense to be paying Rs 40,000 for a phone now?
Kul Bhushan
Should You Pay Rs. 40,000+ For A Phone?

India has been considered a price sensitive market. And with good reason. Notwithstanding a growing middle class and increasing incomes, the country’s consumer is not known to part with his or her money easily. And the smartphone market does bear this out. Most of the devices sold today are in the budget segment, appealing to the value for money crowd. Yes, there are expensive handsets too there always have been - but for the most part, they have been restricted to a niche. International brands such as Samsung, HTC and Sony have consistently launched flagship phones at relatively high prices, as has Apple (the company many credit for the ‘super expensive smartphone’ phenomenon).

Until a couple of years ago, premium priced phones were considered as high end devices with superior quality and features. And to be fair, they did live up to the billing - the level of performance superior to anything lower priced devices could manage. However,that started changing in 2014 with the arrival of devices like the Moto X, the Xiaomi Mi 3,and the onePlus one which came with relatively high-end specifications and good design at surprisingly low prices - the onePlus one for instance, came with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 processor, a 13.0-megapixel camera and a full HD display as well as 64 Gb storage for less than rs 25,000, at a time when other brands were charging almost twice (and in some cases more than that) for similar spec sheets.

And these were not paper tigers either. This new breed of phones has been well received by the customers and tech pundits alike. So much so that many are wondering whether it is wise to invest large amounts of money in phones that had been considered flagships. Well, should you? We tried to find out. 

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