Living with a low-end Android phone running “lite” apps is a big compromise from a usability standpoint but it is still an upgrade from using a feature phone
Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @slightlylate , @tomtaylor , @buzzfeednews , @pranavdixit , @pranavdixit , and @akm1410 Tweets: Alex Russell / @slightlylate : Note that the G4 is lightyears beyond the Bharat 2 (which is reviewed in @PranavDixit's article): http://www.gsmarena.com/... Let's dig into the Bharat 2 a bit (thread!)... http://twitter.com/... Tom Taylor / @tomtaylor : I bought a £60 Android phone (a second hand Moto G4 Play) this week, partly to see what Android is like, but mostly for performance testing web stuff - a lot of this rings true: http://www.buzzfeed.com/... (h/t to @slightlylate for continuing to beat the drum about this) @buzzfeednews : For 10 days, @PranavDixit ditched his iPhone 8 for a budget phone that would be broadly representative of the devices India's 350 million smartphone owners use. http://www.buzzfeed.com/... @pranavdixit : Pretty much the only things that worked: Facebook, YouTube, and WhatsApp. I turned into a consumption zombie and I fear the Next Billion are too. http://www.buzzfeed.com/... @pranavdixit : I used a $60 smartphone instead of an iPhone like one of Big Tech's “Next Billion” users in emerging markets. Despite all the hype about lightweight apps, it was awful. I wrote about it here. http://www.buzzfeed.com/... Ashish K. Mishra / @akm1410 : This is an interesting piece from @PranavDixit. A walk in others shoe experiment. IMHO, it suffers from wild comparisons of lifestyle choices. Where the walk ends up superficial. Minus that, looks like the $80 phone can get consumption going. https://www.buzzfeed.com/...