Is it worth buying a High-End Expensive Smartphone? (Around 1 Lakh or more)

As the Smartphones are getting expensive year on year, does it make any sense or Is it worth buying a High-End Expensive smartphone? Let’s find out.

High-End Expensive Smartphones

A High-End smartphone or expensive smartphone comes with a ton of features and capabilities that help users in many ways. The Capabilities include:

• Great processors (ex. A17 Pro, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3)
• Great Cameras
• Full-HD OLED panels for media consumption
• Enhanced security features for data privacy
• Sturdy build quality including titanium frame.

The lifespan of the expensive smartphone increases as smartphone companies these days are providing up to 7 years of Software updates and security updates. In general, these smartphones phones are Sharukh Khan’s of the mobile world.

Some famous high-end expensive smartphones are iPhone 15 Pro Max, Samsung s24 Ultra and Google Pixel 8 Pro.

Undoubtedly, these phones are amazing with the capabilities and features they have but they come with very expensive price tag. For example a fully loaded iPhone 15 Pro Max costs around Rs. 1.90 Lakhs in India. This amount of money is huge if we consider purchasing power in the country.

It is also true that most people buy these expensive phones just to flaunt in their friend circle and family circle. It gives them a sense of approval and acceptance among their peers. But they are not able to fully utilize their phones potential as they only use them for basic stuff like messaging, calling, little bit gaming, clicking pictures and that’s pretty much it. In this sense, its total waste of money and resources.

So, the question here is what is the alternative? Is it cheap phones, kind of yes but a correct answer would be “BUDGET” smartphones.

Budget Smartphones

Budget smartphones are great alternatives to the high end smartphones. Below are points which makes them great alternatives:

• Most Important they are VALUE FOR MONEY.
• They are cheaper than high-end expensive smartphones.
• They have balance between cost and its features.
• They are decently built and do almost all regular stuff.

There are so many budget smartphones that fulfill above 4 points and also comes at a fraction of price of an expensive smartphones. They come with decent processors  such as Snapdragon 6 Gen 1, Exynos 2200, etc. Also, they have good amount of RAM and storage options which gets your job done. Some examples of these smartphones are Samsung S23 FE, Motorola Edge 40 Neo, Samsung A series, Nothing 2 and other brand phones from Realme, Vivo and Oppo. Now, as we made some points clear about the Expensive and Budget smartphones lets have a look at the Decision making factors to purchase a smartphone.

DECISION MAKING FACTORS

• Personal Needs : If a person has high intensive usage from its smartphone like a person who play high-end games and stream them, extensive video editing, etc. can buy high end-smartphones.
  But if your needs are basic like messaging, daily calls, some good pictures from camera, good battery life, Then one can go for Budget Smartphone.
• Budget :  if a person has no budget constraints and want to buy top end smartphone can always buy an expensive smartphone. People with some budget and don’t want to burn their pockets can always look for budget smartphones.
• Ecosystem:  if a smartphone OS(android, iOS) is a factor to consider then, one must only buy a smartphone with OS they love or comfortable with.

CONCLUSION

As we discussed above points, according to GadgetEvolv there are always different needs, demands and budget constraints that leads to a decision to buy a smartphone. But we can always SAVE OUR MONEY if we don’t want much from our smartphones and requires a smartphone for our daily needs and has decent performance. Budget smartphones are great options in such cases. And NO, there is no need to buy expensive smartphones if you have basic requirements.

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