When choosing among the many sub-$100 smartphones available, as a rule, don’t go for the one where half the development effort was spent on illegally defrauding you.
I’m really not sure why the writer finds this so impressive. He seems unable to get his head around the the idea that a garbage device has a Lightning port. I hope he doesn’t ever visit a gas station, dollar store or newsstand, since his brain would presumably physically explode.