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This is the phone brand from China that our readers want to buy in the US
China is where smartphone innovation lives and devices from one brand are desired the most in the US.
This article may contain personal views and opinion from the author.
The Chinese brand our US readers want the most | Image by Huawei
US smartphone users are missing out on the super-fast battery charging available with some Chinese smartphones. For example, the Realme 240W SuperVOOC charger can charge a phone in under 10 minutes. Unfortunately, the only way to obtain a Realme phone in the States is to import one, and you could be limited to using T-Mobile for reliable cellular service.
Wouldn't you love to see innovative Chinese phones officially sold in the US?
Arguably, the Vivo X300 series is one of the best flagship lines offered in China, with the Vivo X300 Ultra the top of the line. Powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, the rear camera array includes a 200MP main camera featuring the Sony LYTIA 901 with an f/1.85 aperture. There is also a 200MP periscope telephoto camera delivering a 3.7x optical zoom, and an f/2.7 aperture.
The Vivo X300 Ultra is a very impressive handset
The Vivo X300 Ultra also is equipped with a 50MP ultra-wide camera with an aperture of f/2.0 and a 116-degree field of view. The 50MP front-facing camera features an aperture of f/2.5. The Vivo X300 Ultra is a great phone that is not sold officially in the US. Once again, if you live in North America and want this handset, you will have to import it.
Keep in mind that it is recommended that US consumers import the unit running the Global ROM instead of the Chinese ROM. The latter variant will not support Android Auto.
The point is, like I wrote years ago, all of the hardware innovation in the smartphone industry is in China. The problem is that obtaining these devices in the US is harder than it should be. But what if it were possible to buy one of the Chinese brands like Realme, or Vivo in the US as easily as one purchases an iPhone or a Pixel?
The most desired Chinese brand in our poll has its share of fans and haters
We asked PhoneArena readers which of the Chinese phone brands they would most want to buy in the US. The number one brand could be a surprise to some and at the same time, not be a surprise at all to a few staunch supporters of the company. With a leading 31% of the tally, the top Chinese smartphone brand you want to see sold in the US is Huawei.
Some of you might not remember that back in 2015, Huawei was the firm behind the Nexus 6P. The last Huawei-branded phone sold officially in the US was the Mate 10 Pro in 2018. It was sold unlocked via electronics chains because carriers like AT&T decided at the last minute not to offer the device.
The next year Huawei was added to the Commerce Department's Entity List preventing the company from accessing its US supply chain without a license. The coup de grace came in 2020 when the US used the Foreign Direct Product Rule (FDPR) to block Huawei from obtaining cutting-edge chips. Huawei has been working hard for ways around this and has come up with a possible breakthrough.
Traditional chip production techniques allow for the manufacturing of more powerful semiconductors by reducing the size of the chips to increase transistor density. Huawei's Tau Scaling Law says that faster chips can be made by reducing the time it takes signals and data to move through chips and computing systems.
Huawei has a breakthrough in chip manufacturing
Starting with the Mate 90 later this year, Huawei will equip its phones with its Kirin processors made using a technique called Logic Folding, which reduces the wiring inside Huawei's Kirin chips. Using vertically stacked active chip layers, Huawei will be able to improve the performance of its chipsets without requiring the advanced lithography machines that it is banned from purchasing. By 2031, Huawei says that with LogicFolding it will be able to produce Kirin chipsets with transistor density equivalent to what will be seen on a 1.4nm SoC.
The Oppo Find X9 is another camera powerhouse not officially sold in the US. | Image by Oppo
Following Huawei is Oppo with close to 26% of the vote. The Oppo Find X9 Ultra has dual 200MP camera sensors and adds a true 10x optical zoom achieved without digital cropping. Xiaomi is third (22.68%) followed by Vivo (9.65%), iQOO (6.76%), and Realme (3.98%).
Which Chinese phone brand would you most want to buy in US?
Many of the brands also offer foldable phones. Huawei was the first to release a tri-fold foldable in 2024 with the Mate XT. Oppo has been able to make the crease on the Find N6 foldable display almost completely invisible and nearly impossible to feel with its "Zero-Feel Crease."
As a phone fan, I'd love to see all politics removed from the equation so that I could purchase a US variant of the Find X9 Ultra with all US 5G bands available. Imagine being able to purchase this model in the US without getting ripped off by an importer. Most likely we will never see that in our lifetimes. But if you are a big phone fan, it is something to think about.
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