It’s about giving and getting value.
If you have a thousand dollars to spend, there’s no shortage of premium Android phones to choose from. The Galaxy Note 9 (go.pcworld.com/gon9), Pixel 3 XL (go.pcworld.com/px3), Mate 20 Pro (go. pcworld.com/m20), and LG V40 ThinQ (go.pcworld.com/v40) all cost upwards of $1,000, and Samsung, Google, Huawei, and LG would be more than happy to take your money.
If you opted to purchase any of them, you’d be getting one of the best phones money can buy. They all have top-of-the-line specs, gorgeous designs (for the most part), and innovative features and cameras. We can debate whether any phone is worth four figures, but anyone who buys one of the thousand-dollar Android phones on the market will undoubtedly be getting a valuable piece of technology.
Of course, none of these Android phones would have been brave enough to push the thousand-dollar barrier without Apple. When Apple unveiled the iPhone X with a $999 starting price tag, it opened the floodgates for Android phones to do the same, much like the iPhone X’s design launched a thousand notches. Android fans and Apple fans can argue till the end of time over whether the Galaxy Note 9 or the iPhone XS is the better phone, but it’s safe to say the Note 9 or Pixel 3 XL wouldn’t have broken the four-figure barrier without the iPhone X.
This story is from the December 2018 edition of PCWorld.
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