Honor vs Oppo vs Xiaomi vs Samsung flagship smartphones in South Africa

[Jan]

Honor, Oppo, and Xiaomi taking on Samsung in South Africa

While Samsung is the most dominant smartphone brand in South Africa, companies like Honor, Oppo, and Xiaomi have recently released flagship handsets they hope will help them compete with the South Korean giant.

The high-end smartphones launched in South Africa by the three Chinese companies in 2022 include the Honor Magic4 Pro, Oppo Reno8 Pro, and Xiaomi 12.

 

[Fuzzbox]

Does it work on the playstore.

 

[Fango]

I remember when you could make a phone call for a tickey (three pennies)...

 

[Grubscrew]

Since most south africans get their new phones on 24 month contracts, wouldn't that be a better comparison? The subsidies from manufactures, does make it interesting.

 

[RedViking]

That is an insane amount of money on a hyped device.

 

[Grubscrew]

Maybe also add, has access to GMS in the comparison graph.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

A week on my new Galaxy A33 and Galaxy watch 5 and I'm thinking the whole week on moving back to my Redmi Note 9S and Amazfit GTS.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Xiaomi 12 wipes the floor with the others when it comes to value for money...

 

[Lupus]

Since most south africans get their new phones on 24 month contracts, wouldn't that be a better comparison? The subsidies from manufactures, does make it interesting.

Yeah it's 36 months now

 

[Rickster]

Does it work on the playstore.

Yes.

 

[Pak Fa Fui]

Always wondered how these companies were able to take on Samsung but Nokia Sony BB HTC and LG just couldnt cut it

 

[Sapphiron]

Always wondered how these companies were able to take on Samsung but Nokia Sony BB HTC and LG just couldnt cut it

Because the people that used to innovate at Sony, HTC and LG were actually the chinese contractors that work for the Chinese brands now.

The center of innovation in the mobile tech space is shifting from Korea and Taiwan to Mainland China.

 

[CataclysmZA]

Always wondered how these companies were able to take on Samsung but Nokia Sony BB HTC and LG just couldnt cut it

Sony Mobile was mismanaged and profits were redirected to their failing TV, laptop, and home electronics business. Sony now caters to enthusiasts and content creation in their mobile division, spun off the Vaio brand, and restructured their display production business, selling part of it to Hon Hai.

LG Mobile was mismanaged and profits were redirected to their... failing TV, laptop, and home electronics business. LG now focuses their efforts on panel manufacturing for other companies, and restructured their laptop business to cater to content creation. In addition to everything else that Lucky Goldstar did before.

RIM did not consider Android to be a threat, right up to the point where they realised too late that having WhatsApp on their store and supported through BIS was a problem.

Nokia did not consider Android or iOS to be a threat, right up to the point where they realised that Symbian development was going nowhere, and they thought resistive touch was still the way to go. And then they were attacked from the inside by a Trojan Horse from Microsoft.

HTC was slowly killed off by Google once they signed the partnership deal in 2017, just like any other Google project. Same for Motorola, really.