Midrange vs Flagship comparison: All You Need to know

Midrange vs Flagships:

    2020 is all about new smartphones coming with impressive specs even at such aggressive pricing.Every year, the top smartphone manufacturers release dozens of smartphones between them. Usually, they fall into different price points. As a consumer, trying to understand the difference between these flagship & midrange  phones can be difficult.

       ...But wait, before buying a new one just go through the below points:

1. Is your old phone is unusable?
2. why you are buying a new phone?
3. Is the latest technology has very much important role in your life?
4. Why choose a flagship smartphone when you know its not value for money?

          Many person buy new flagship as soon as their launch without its actual need in their life and end up wasting a lots of bucks.

           Before buying a smartphone , one should figure out what you will be getting for paying nearly or more than double the price(~20k to 30k more).

• Display Technology:-

     

       ideal display- Amoled FHD+  90 hz which are available in most mid-ranger smartphones.

•  Perfomance:-

             Before 2-3 years,midrange smartphones used to come with  Qualcom SnapDragon 6 series processor while the flagships with 8 series chip.But in 2020,the 7 series processor like the SD 720 or SD 730G are giving quite top performance with Antutu score of around 2,80,000.This is enough for 90% of the consumers even for casual gamers.
                               
               But if you are a professional gamer or do a lot of video editing stuffs,you can look for the flagships like Oneplus 7 pro or ROG phone 2 .

Oxygen OS on oneplus 7 pro

• Operating System:-

            Many of us donot give much importance to the OS,but while using our phone the interaction of the user solely depends on the operating system running in the smartphone.
Flagships smartphones come with OS like Oxygen OS,ios etc.provide much streamlined user experience.
           They also lack any kind of bloatwares giving a cleaner look to the phone.Irritating ads which are seen  in mid range smartphones,are also missing in flagships.The reason behind smartphone companies providing the ads in midrange smartphones is to earn little bit of revenue as they are providing huge value for money product at such aggressive price segment.

POCO X2  (midrange phone with best camera)

• Camera segment:-

            This is one of the most important thing that someone looks into before buying a smartphones.Infact,after performance camera is the ranking criteria of a smartphone.For camera,it depends on what you really do on your smartphone.

             90% of the time the mid-range smartphone camera is enough to satisfy the needs of an ordinary daily life.At present phones like  Poco X2,Realme X2 ,Realme 6 pro etc.are providing much better camera performance comparable with the flagships.Premium features like the stabilization,night-mode,bokeh video recording etc.are now became a common thing in every midranger smartphones.

               In 2020,most of the midrange smartphones are coming with quad camera setup consisting of wide-angle lens,telephoto lens as well as a dedicated macro sensor.They also come with either 48MP or 64MP main camera sensor. But for a professional photographer or videographer,flagships are the ones that you must go with.The photos of iPhone 11 pro or a Pixel will definately stand apart from the midranger's.The reason of which is the powerful algorithm and the brilliant post processing going on behind the lenses.

• Battery and charging:-

           Though there isn't much difference in terms of battery size of mid-range and the flagships,but there is significant difference in terms of the battery charging technologies.For e.g. flagships supports 50W (super vooc charging) or 65W charging like the Realme X50 pro , while midrange categories have 27W or 30W charging like in Redmi note 9 pro .
          Where the flagships might gets 0 to 100% in around 30 minutes ,the midrange smartphone can get fully charged at less than 60 minutes.

           But is it really worth to spend such extra money on this?

Realme 6 pro (Best All-rounder)

• Brand value:-

           One thing where the flagship phones easily excels the midrange phones is the premiumness which the user carries with it.Maximum people get carried over by this and go for flagship.Be it a 80k or a 1 lakh phone, brand value always proves to be heavy on performance,camera and other specs.

             But even after buying a top of the line flagship smartphone,it eventually starts to feel not that much premium with the passage of time and also the prices also take a drastic fall after 3-4 months only.Flagships also donot have good record in terms of re-sale of the product.The depreciation in smartphones is more noticed in the flagship categories.For instance a 50k phone may have low re-sale price of 20k only after 6 months.

iPhone 11 pro max

To conclude:

               If you are are looking to carry smartphone as brand value to stand apart from the crowd or to try fancy tech such as wireless charging or IP rating,go for a flagship blind-foldedly.

                But if you are a true tech enthusiast trying to explore the recent technology with aggressive pricing,the mid-range smartphones are for you.

               Below I'm mentioning some really value for money midrange smartphones, you can surely check out:

1. Realme 6 pro 
2. Realme 6
3. Redmi note 9 pro