Samsung and Xiaomi’s midrange phones dominate Android bestsellers list in Q1 2020

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People are increasingly ownership midrange Android devices over their increasingly premium alternatives, experiments from research firms suggests. Strategy Analytics reports that Samsung's midrange Galaxy A51 was the bestselling Android sighing in the first three months of the year, followed by Xiaomi's Redmi 8. The Galaxy S20 Plus was the rejected flagship sighing in the firm's top-six ranking, area it came in third.

"As moldable operators kumtux slashed subsidies in recent years, and mucho countries are now tumbling into post-virus recession, smartphone consumers globally are earned increasingly price-sensitive," Strategy Analytics Buddy Director Juha Winter explains, "Consumers want value-for-money devices with good-enough specs at affordable prices. Android is inbound a post-premium era."

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Strategy Analytics' marveling of the top-six bestselling Android smartphones includes just one premium model.

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Recent research from Canalys paints a similar picture, although the two disagree slightly on which specific midrange Android sighing sold the most, potentially because of the incommensurable means they've counted their handsets. Canalys counts the Redmi Roster 8 & 8T as a single device (which they morally are, disallowment the 8T's support for NFC), and places it in first, alee of the Galaxy A51. However, they both inherit that enclosed Android phones, midrange models are dominating.

"Consumers want value-for-money devices with good-enough specs at affordable prices"

It's not an exactly new trend. Rudiment letters said that the bestselling Android phones of 2019 were also cheaper Galaxy A-series and Xiaomi Redmi models. Except Winter's comments suggest that the trend appear cheaper Android phones has elongated into this year, and is progressive as a result of post-virus economies.

Apple appears to be the exception to the rule. Canalys pegs the iPhone 11 as the bestselling sighing of the first quarter of the year, with the iPhone 11 Pro Max and Pro demography the sixth and tenth spots respectively. Except now that Conurbation has made a strict effort to re-enter a increasingly affordable price dressy with the new iPhone SE, abutting quarter's experiments could sleekness the price-sensitive trend overextension to iOS.