Umidigi’s Quality has gone down Hill

Umidigi is a Chinese phone company that I have had great success with for several years. I would buy around a dozen of their phones each year on Aliexpress. Unfortunately I am now done buying their phones. I have had several with batteries that didn’t last a year and one who’s screen stopped working. The last one is the most important one because it was given to my retired father in law who was then left without a phone for a week and no way to contact his family who lives no where near him.

I don’t know what happened to them but it makes me feel like a fool. My last batch of 6 phones has exactly 1 still working without issues. I guess the era of affordable phones are over.