Gadgetory

chances are the smart phone in your hand or your pocket was designed by an American Korean or maybe even a Taiwanese company but a handful of companies are looking to change that and make names for themselves in the West with competitive devices at bargain prices the most well-known Charlie's companies in the West have been huawei and ZTE but neither has been very successful in breaking into the mainstream high-end smartphone markets in the US and Europe but elbow and its recent offshoot 1 plus are taking a different tack instead of trying to buddy up with carriers they are selling their phones unlocked direct to Western consumers oboes new find 7a and the 1+1 are strikingly similar from the outside in fact apart from slightly different button placements the only difference is between the two phones are the software that they run and the prices that they solve for both phones are nerds dream in terms of specs they have 5.5 inch 1080p displays current quad-core processors support for European and American LTE networks 13 megapixel cameras and clean plastic designs with solid build quality the 499 dollar fine 78 runs oppose custom version of Android dubbed color or less based on Android 4.3 color OS is a heavily modified version of the platform similar to HTC Sense or Samsung's TouchWiz virtually everything about the software has been touched by opposed designers and looks significantly different than what comes out of google's software labs oppo software design feels a bit heavy-handed more often than not but it doesn't seem to affect the find 7 days performance and it's not nearly as ugly as some of the custom interfaces that we've seen from other manufacturers conversely the 299 dollar 1+1 is the second phone on the market to run cyanogenmod out of the box cyanogenmod is a very lightly tweaked version of google's vision for Android and its software looks and behaves very similarly to a nexus 5 there are a few more customization options with cyanogenmod and the one plus is a custom lock screen but for the most part it's a stock Android experience but what's most impressive about the find 7a and the oneplus is the level of quality that they're offering at hundreds of dollars less than other more popular smartphones with the exception of Google's Nexus series and perhaps Motorola's Moto X lower-cost phones have typically offered inferior screens slower processors lousy cameras and cheap build quality but that's not the case at all with these two which have great-looking high-resolution displays impressive camera performance so speed and batteries that can last all day and more and the build quality on either phone is better than even some of the most popular phones available today there's still a few things that will likely hold the fine 7a and the oneplus one back from really taking the market by storm they are rather monstrous and impossible to use with one hand and the average consumer in the US isn't likely to order a phone online sight unseen from a manufacturer that they've never heard of but buying habits are changing and as more customers in the US make it worthwhile to purchase a phone out of contract instead of taking a subsidy Chinese manufacturers are poised to capitalize on that opportunity after all when there's a price difference of nearly four hundred dollars between the oneplus one and another high-end Android phone what would you choose