Asus ASUS ROG Phone II Discussion Thread, Worlds First 120Hz AMOLED Display!
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 Jul 27 2019, 11:26 PM
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QUOTE(attw @ Jul 26 2019, 08:35 PM) At that price (the Tencent version) it would be a steal! The reason why it is that cheap is because Tencent subsidizes the phone via advertisements (similar method to how Amazon can subsidize flagships via the Prime edition phones)   |
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Jul 28 2019, 01:16 PM
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QUOTE(attw @ Jul 28 2019, 10:45 AM) Exactly, so there's no chance of us getting that kind of pricing here for sure, hahaha.. FYI, this is also the same techniques that Xiaomi employs to make their phones incredibly cheap by showing ads in MIUI (Also might explains while their phones are bootloader unlockable, Xiaomi has deliberately designed the bootloader unlock mechanism to be as cumbersome as possible to deter bootloader unlocking) |
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Jul 28 2019, 01:17 PM
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QUOTE(dwRK @ Jul 28 2019, 11:58 AM) I got Kindle, and Fire and Nook tablets... willing to live with Tencent ads for cheap price I think it might has no Google services so games that require certain Google Play components such as SafetyNet (some games include this as an anti-cheat mechanism) may no longer work now waiting on import sets n telco supports  |
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