This suggests that it they did not survive: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media/2015/05/06/chinese-low-end-smartphone-market-the-era-of-shanzhai-has-pa

This suggests that it they did not survive: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media/2015/05/06/chinese-low-end-smartphone-market-the-era-of-shanzhai-has-passed-budget-smartphones-dominate/ https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media/2015/05/06/chine... It's a shame because we still don't have innovations like TV tuners, am/fm (my LG L70 had an FM-only tuner), or pseudo 7.1 surround sound. Well, we do have surround plugins for Android, but they require root and installing an Xposed module.