[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]For $100 (or was it $150) what did people expect? I have faith with Augen, since they seem to actually listen to reviews of their products.[/citation]
I do and I don't. Here's my stance on targeting bargain value customers...
In some ways it's nice when everyone is able to have something, because there are manufacturers that make a lesser product for a price that is affordable. Unfortunately there are those that purchase these lesser products thinking that they are just as good, and base their expectations as such.
With a lot of gadgets often battery life is abysmal. Think back to the early days of digital cameras and even cd players. In the end people were spending less up front, but more in the long run just to use the darn things, and then throwing all of their used alkaline batteries into the trash.
I just feel that lesser consumer electronics produce far too much waste, are misleading in their marketing with claims that they are just as good, and destroy the reputations of other companies caught in between.
Far too often in the past I dealt with customers that complained about how poorly Windows ran and yet they got suckered into purchasing a $200 walmart special that only had 256 MB of ram.
In the case of Augen, users were not getting the full Android experience, and this is coming from a Windows Mobile fan.