Many international manufacturers, including Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, HTC and Sony Mobile Communications, on a regular basis produce a mini-version of their smartphones. But unfortunately they are sold much worse than expected, these companies.
Although LG released to the market a mini version of its LG G3 called LG G3 Beat, and Sony Mobile unveiled a mini version of Xperia Z1 Compact, sales of these two models were lower than expected.
One of the main disadvantages of such small champions lies in their relatively high cost. Their average price is around $ 400-500, while the cost of comparable characteristics smartphones produced by Chinese manufacturers, does not exceed $ 150-200.
Sources say that the majority of producers are likely to be forced to change strategy in relation to the mini-model smartphones.