Glazers will say it’s to keep the posers out.

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    I decided not to buy another Xiaomi phone when the one I previously had would turn off when it was a bit mildly cool outside.

    Like, I would take it out of my pocket to look at bus schedules but it would turn off after a few seconds of being exposed to 5°C, saying the battery was dead. Another time I had it attached to my bike handlebar and it kept turning off because apparently 13°C with the wind was also too chilly. Every time that fucking Xiaomi phone was feeling a bit chill, the battery would just die. And not even in freezing temps!

    I looked online and everone of the fanboys on the forums kept saying that this is normal, battery performance degrades in winter, that iPhones do the same, and apparently all other phones do the same. In short, I had unreasonable expectations.

    Yet, all my other phones’ batteries didn’t die within seconds of taking them out of my pocket, even in winter.

    So, I don’t have to bother with their names anymore.

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    China has a big problem with selling an identical product fifteen times through twelve different companies.

    I think it’s an SEO strategy for Amazon, where they edge out any competition by being everywhere on the first page of search results. They also have the ability to game reviews by killing any products that get bad reviews and recreating them under a new brand.

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    Their tablet naming is at least a little more sane.

    I don’t know why companies don’t just put the release year in the name. That’d be much simpler than having to keep track of device generations.