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LeEco slash prices, now has the cheapest 6GB RAM phone

AndiDecember 17, 2016

We’ve been hearing news over the past few weeks that LeEco is in a spot of financial trouble. The company, which started as LeTV, has basically expanded too fast and invested too heavily in projects leaving them with nothing that they can actually sell right now.

This has left the company with very little money to play around with and as such as forced some major pricing shifts in their home market.

It might look a little grim for LeEco, but at least new pricing strategies are going to benefit the customer, and they are already doing so!

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Today, the LeEco Max 2 in China has had a major price cut from the original 2499 Yuan price point down to just 1699 Yuan! That makes the LeMax 2 the cheapest 6GB RAM smartphone available today!

The LeMax 2 also features a Snapdragon 820 chipset, 5.7-inch 2K display, 8 mega-pixel front camera, 21 mega-pixel rear, and a 3100mAh battery.

Outside of China, reseller pricing hasn’t caught up with the price drop and online stores still have the 6GB RAM version of the phone listed at around $460.

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Moose
December 17, 2016
I don’t care how low the price goes, I have no use for a phone that has only 32GB built-in storage and no SD card slot, a real deal breaker for these phones. Battery life is nothing great either.
- Rob
  December 17, 2016
  And don’t forget that the cameras on their phones also suck big time as does the ROM. Bought one of their phones once, never again.
- Felix Muchiri
  December 17, 2016
  yeah, fully agree with you on this one, I mean why limit such a powerful phone that can run technically anything android you throw at it? no SD, no matter how powerful it gets, it’ll always be limited. silly mistake

Muhammad Yasir
December 17, 2016
CRUEL RESELLERS :@ !
Moose
December 17, 2016
I don’t care how low the price goes, I have no use for a phone that has only 32GB built-in storage and no SD card slot, a real deal breaker for these phones. Battery life is nothing great either.
- Rob
  December 17, 2016
  And don’t forget that the cameras on their phones also suck big time as does the ROM. Bought one of their phones once, never again.
- kfjm254
  December 17, 2016
  yeah, fully agree with you on this one, I mean why limit such a powerful phone that can run technically anything android you throw at it? no SD, no matter how powerful it gets, it’ll always be limited. silly mistake

Guest
December 17, 2016
Investing in a broke company sounds like bye bye updates to me
Tomasz Płókarz
December 17, 2016
- AbdulB1
  December 17, 2016
  I wonder why they even made this phone in the first place? Such a small battery for this big display….
- Nilzie
  December 18, 2016
  I get a little over 5 hours of screen on time on my le max 2. I think thats pretty good

Felix Muchiri
December 17, 2016
oh hell no, unless they give me a phone with 256GB storage, lack of memory expansion makes it null n void. I mean why have that powerful hard ware limited to only 32GB storage with only about 24GB usable and with modern apps that can run on this device each about 2GB ,especially games, how many apps will you have 10 max? how exactly does that help? they attempt to much to be like apple, but only on the negative side, lack of memory expansion, doesn’t make that much sense in android that is quite heavy both on storage and memory. that’s something they should consider
- nobitakun
  December 17, 2016
  I would not state that so fast. It happens to PC and consoles as well, how many games (full retail ones) do fit inside their HDD? 15-20? nowadays is an endemic problem without solution, we will never be able to store 100’s of new games in a regular HDD because the things work like that, every year they will use more space and you will have more space, so the proportions are not moving. What is happening to phones with 128-256gb is unnusual, in some years you will continue having 256gb and phone games will take 4 times the space they do now, and everything will be restored to the way they want.
  The only way of solving this is change dramatically how data is stored in drives, I still remember reading many years ago that they were developing a way to store dozens of TB in a drive, if that were the case that technology would be mature enough by now that they would be offering hundreds or even we would be talking about PB for home use, a situation whose status is far from being true as you see. Why? because they don’t want, they want you spend thousands of $ if you want to have a decent storage for EVERYTHING.
  Thst’s the way the world works my friend :'(
  - HBK
    December 18, 2016
    Thats why expandable storage exists. You can easily expand HDD storage in PC and leptops too. Im currently running multiple 4tb HDDs.
  - December 18, 2016
    I do agree with you to some extent on how technology evolves, but I think memory extension allows your phone to be at least future proof to soms extent, I mean, let’s take the huawei mate 9 for example with 4GB RAM, and 64GB being expandable to 256GB, and as micro SDs becoming cheaper and larger in terms of capacity, the guy with the huawei will be much better off in 6 months time when he has used up all internal storage with everything he finds important, therefore by the time his phone retires, he’ll have exhausted it’s capabilities. Trust me, I owned the letv le1 with helio X10, 3GB RAM, a powerful combination at that time, but there was little I could do with the 11GB available storage. I couldn’t have NFS, real racing 3 or mortal combat at the same time. Had it had expandable memory, it’d probably be my daily driver today. after that frustrating ordeal, I vowed never again!

Udegbunam Chukwudi
December 17, 2016
Investing in a broke company sounds like bye bye updates to me
Tomasz Płókarz
December 17, 2016
- AbdulB1
  December 18, 2016
  I wonder why they even made this phone in the first place? Such a small battery for this big display….
- Nilzie
  December 18, 2016
  I get a little over 5 hours of screen on time on my le max 2. I think thats pretty good

kfjm254
December 17, 2016
oh hell no, unless they give me a phone with 256GB storage, lack of memory expansion makes it null n void. I mean why have that powerful hard ware limited to only 32GB storage with only about 24GB usable and with modern apps that can run on this device each about 2GB ,especially games, how many apps will you have 10 max? how exactly does that help? they attempt to much to be like apple, but only on the negative side, lack of memory expansion, doesn’t make that much sense in android that is quite heavy both on storage and memory. that’s something they should consider
- nobitakun
  December 17, 2016
  I would not state that so fast. It happens to PC and consoles as well, how many games (full retail ones) do fit inside their HDD? 15-20? nowadays is an endemic problem without solution, we will never be able to store 100’s of new games in a regular HDD because the things work like that, every year they will use more space and you will have more space, so the proportions are not moving. What is happening to phones with 128-256gb is unnusual, in some years you will continue having 256gb and phone games will take 4 times the space they do now, and everything will be restored to the way they want.
  The only way of solving this is change dramatically how data is stored in drives, I still remember reading many years ago that they were developing a way to store dozens of TB in a drive, if that were the case that technology would be mature enough by now that they would be offering hundreds or even we would be talking about PB for home use, a situation whose status is far from being true as you see. Why? because they don’t want, they want you spend thousands of $ if you want to have a decent storage for EVERYTHING.
  Thst’s the way the world works my friend :'(
- Guest
  December 18, 2016
  Thats why expandable storage exists. You can easily expand HDD storage in PC and leptops too. Im currently running multiple 4tb HDDs.
- kfjm254
  December 18, 2016
  I do agree with you to some extent on how technology evolves, but I think memory extension allows your phone to be at least future proof to soms extent, I mean, let’s take the huawei mate 9 for example with 4GB RAM, and 64GB being expandable to 256GB, and as micro SDs becoming cheaper and larger in terms of capacity, the guy with the huawei will be much better off in 6 months time when he has used up all internal storage with everything he finds important, therefore by the time his phone retires, he’ll have exhausted it’s capabilities. Trust me, I owned the letv le1 with helio X10, 3GB RAM, a powerful combination at that time, but there was little I could do with the 11GB available storage. I couldn’t have NFS, real racing 3 or mortal combat at the same time. Had it had expandable memory, it’d probably be my daily driver today. after that frustrating ordeal, I vowed never again!

Karly Johnston
December 17, 2016
- yalok
  December 18, 2016
  - Yeti hand
    December 18, 2016
Karly Johnston
December 18, 2016
- yalok
  December 18, 2016
  Not if one wants a big screen.
- Yeti hand
  December 18, 2016