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The Chinese mobile market is unstoppable. Xiaomi has just presented the Redmi Note 2, a smartphone that offers technical specifications impossible to find in the European market for the same price. But Xiaomi is seeing its leadership in the Chinese market jeopardized, and more and more Asian companies are beginning to emerge in China with mobiles that offer an unbeatable quality / price ratio. For this reason, this time we have proposed to collect three unknown Chinese mobile companies that could surprise you and who, who knows, perhaps could even be part of the Chinese mobiles that can still sweep in 2015.
1. ZUK, with the ZUK Z1
ZUK is actually a company that belongs to a division created from the Asian Lenovo. ZUK operates only in the Asian market, and with its latest launch it seems that it intends to stand up to nothing less than the recently introduced OnePlus 2. The launch we are talking about is the ZUK Z1, a smartphone that, with a starting price that would come to around 260 euros at the current exchange rate, has been presented with a design that is quite reminiscent of the mobile phones of the brand. Apple.
Beyond that, the ZUK Z1 incorporates technical specifications that we could practically consider as high-end. Among these features we find a screen 5.5 inches with resolution Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels), a processor Snapdragon 801 of four cores running at 2.5 GHz, three gigabytes of RAM, 64 gigabytes of internal storage (not extendable) a main camera of 13 megapixels (with a sensor that know too well in the middle range, the IMX214 from Sony), the factory installed version of Android 5.1 Lollipop and a battery with a capacity that reaches, beware, 4,100 mAh.
2. Zopo, with the Zopo Speed 7
May Zopo we find it somewhat more familiar territory because it is an Asian company for some time now are trying to enter the Spanish mobile market (see, for example, through the recent sponsorship of Jorge Lorenzo). The latest launches of this company are very much in line with the strategy of its competitors (mid-high range mobiles with the lowest possible prices), and in this case in particular we will talk about the recently presented Zopo Speed 7 (as well as its version type phablet , the Speed 7 Plus, from 5.5 inches).
In the case of the Zopo Speed 7, we are talking about a smartphone that comes with a screen five inches with resolution Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels). Below its housing are a processor MediaTek of eight cores (MTK6753), 3 gigabytes of RAM, 16 gigabytes of memory (expandable microSD up to 64 gigabytes), a main chamber 13 megapixels, Android 5.1 Lollipop and battery 2500 mAh (3,000 mAh in the case of the Speed 7 Plus).
And what about the price? It depends on the store we decide to go to, but it is usually around 190 euros for the Speed 7 and 210 euros for the Speed 7 Plus.
3. Umi, with the Hammer S
Fingerprint reader, USB Type-C port, infrared port… the latest release of Umi, a company also Asian origin, is no slouch in this list. The Umi Hammer S has been presented with a screen of 5.5 inches with resolution HD (1,280 x 720 pixels), and comprises a processor MediaTek of four cores (model MT6735), 2 gigabytes of RAM, 16 gigabytes of internal storage (expandable via microSD up to64 gigabytes), a main camera of 13 megapixels (with sensor Sony IMX179), Android 5.1 Lollipop and a battery of 3,200 mAh.
The Umi Hammer S is especially striking for its price, which is around 140 euros.
