Best Chinese Android smartphones in 2020
Things made in China often carry a bad rep: after all, being affordable is often given as their first and foremost virtue. You can’t deny that being competitive in terms of price is what Chinese companies are great at, but recently they have picked up the pace when it comes to innovation and design. Just look at the chart of the world’s biggest phone makers and you will see the rise of Huawei, Oppo, Xiaomi, and many others. This is no coincidence: the Chinese market has grown hugely, but it is also international buyers that appreciate the work done by Chinese Android phone makers.
These are the best Chinese Android phones
There is quite a lot of exciting new Chinese phones that you should know about.
We bring you just that: these are the best Chinese Android phones in various price tiers: from the premium, top-tier phones to the affordable ones. Take a look.
High-End phones
Affordable phones
High-end Phones
Realme X2 Pro
Price: $500
Up and coming Oppo sub-brand Realme has quickly gained popularity with its phones that offer great value for the money. The Realme X2 Pro is the most notable phone of the brand that you should know about.
It features a 6.5″ AMOLED screen that uses a Samsung panel for better quality and even supports a 90Hz refresh rate that makes for extra fast experience, and then it also comes with the Snapdragon 855 Plus chip on board, one of the fastest you can get on a phone. Add to that USF 3.0 super fast 256 gigs of storage, high-quality loudspeakers, SuperVOOC fast charging and a large, 4,000mAh battery, and you have a winner.
Oppo Reno Ace
Price: $550
Xiaomi Mi Note 10
Price: $550
The world’s first phone with a 108-megapixel camera is quite an achievement, and this phone does indeed break new ground when it comes to image quality: it captures an unprecedented amount of detail.
Interestingly, under the hood, the Mi Note 10 features the Snapdragon 730 chip and not the most powerful Snapdragon 8XX series, but it still feels plenty fast and the more affordable processor also helps keep the price where it’s at, at just $550.
The phone is still built to feel premium with a glass and metal body, a beautiful AMOLED screen and minimal bezel, as well as the typical for Xiaomi huge battery, a massive 5260mAh battery in this case.
Honor View 30
Price: $500
The only slight disappointment is that the phone comes with 6.6″ LCD screen rather than an AMOLED screen.
Xiaomi Mi 9T Pro
Price: $400
We are talking about the full set of features: a beautiful, large, 6.4″ AMOLED display with Gorilla Glass 5 protection, the flagship Snapdragon 855 chip along with 6GB or 8GB RAM depending on the model you choose, and also a triple camera system with a main 48MP sensor, plus a 2X zoom telephoto lens and an ultra-wide shooter.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro
Price: $250
Priced at around $250 at launch, this phone looks like a flagship, it’s really hard to make the difference based on just looks. Under the hood, the phone is powered by a MediaTek G90T chip, and you might be scared to see the MediaTek name, but this chip seriously overdelivers for the price range and does well in both daily performance and heavy workloads like gaming.
The camera is also not bad at all: you have a 64MP main shooter, an ultra-wide camera, a dedicated macro camera, and a depth sensor.
Realme X2
Price: $250
Realme, an offshoot of Chinese phone superpower Oppo, has really taken the world by a storm recently, but while you may have heard about its “flagship killers”, its affordable phones are nothing to frown at.
The Realme X2 is an excellent affordable phone. Just take a look at the specs: for just around $250 you get plentiful features such as a 6.4″ beautiful AMOLED screen, the Snapdragon 730 chip with at least 6GB of RAM. The battery is a big, 4000mAh in size, providing enough juice for more than a day of use. And then on the camera front, you get the main camera plus an ultra-wide one, a macro one, and a depth sensor.
These Chinese phones surely will change your perception of what makes a great value for money device. Stay tuned to this article that is updated continuously as new models come in to learn all about them.