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The differentiator is not clear enough. If you're up against massive entities who can produce on the cheap, the value prop in consumerland has to be obvious and
by sonnyblarney 8y ago
The differentiator is not clear enough. If you're up against massive entities who can produce on the cheap, the value prop in consumerland has to be obvious and poignant, i.e. it should be easy to create a narrative that 'this phone is the best for X' and a lot of people want X. It can be aspirational or functional or both or whatever but it has to pop.
- nakedrobot2 8y agoOr maybe their phone sucked. Which, apparently, it did. Especially the camera.
- Steltek 8y agoNot familiar with any issues besides the camera.
- sf_rob 8y agoMine was the buggiest Android device I've ever owned (headphones not detected, random reboots, volume rocker not responding, etc). I returned it rather than exchange. That said I have friends who love theirs.
- SamWhited 8y agoIt's also completely impossible to repair and the screen cracks if you breath on it wrong (contrary to all their claims about toughness they advertised so heavily when they came out with it). By impossible to repair, I mean quite literally no one including them will repair it, if something goes wrong they will send you a new one at a slight discount, but given how expensive it is that's not much comfort since you can still buy another brand of phone cheaper (I think it was $200 off, which is a bit better now that they've dropped the price, but still insane for a "repair"). It's a serious waste of money. Looks nice though. EDIT: I say it looks nice, but the polished back was a stupid idea; everyone complains about their phone being covered in fingerprints, so if you do mirrored metal guess what happens… it's the worst phone I've ever had for looking dirty.
- Natela 8y agoI have a PH1, I got it new for 400$. It is by far the most premium experience you can have out of all Android phones for that price. 128GB, excellent screen resolution & contrasts, good perf, very nice looking, clean Android, etc... The camera has been improved. It is not the best camera on the market but still quite good. They are 2 camera so you can have depth of field. I don't have any complain except the lack of jack and Wireless Charging
- EpicEng 8y agoLooks like the phone launched at $699, but slashed the price down 30% last October. So yeah, it's been cheaper than the Samsungs of the world for quite a while now.