*Youtube works great! Facebook works sort of okay, etc.
The Next Billion already own them and they're pretty bad
I Used A Phone Like Most People In The World And It Was Awful
I lived with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days. Nothing went smoothly.
Posted on July 13, 2018, at 12:01 p.m.
by Pranav Dixit
BuzzFeed News Reporter
...the digital life these companies have created for users on low-end smartphones leaves much to be desired. I know, because I lived with one.
The rules of my experiment were simple: For 10 days, I’d ditch my iPhone 8 for a budget phone that would be broadly representative of the devices India’s 350 million smartphone owners use. I’d have to go with Android, which runs on over 90% of India’s smartphones. I’d also download the “lite” apps that big tech companies claim would make things work smoothly on a low-end device. And if the phone couldn’t do anything that my iPhone could, I’d just have to do without it. (...)
To choose a phone, I turned to analysts from market research firms Counterpoint and IDC. The device they picked: the Bharat 2, a phone made by one of India’s largest mobile phone makers, Micromax. At $60, the Bharat 2 is one of the cheapest smartphones in India with 4G LTE and, according to Counterpoint, it was the country’s best-selling smartphone in the sub-$75 price band last year.
The Bharat 2 is aimed squarely at the heart of the Next Billion. It comes in a box with colorful silhouettes of iconic Indian monuments like the Taj Mahal and the India Gate....
