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Smartisan (the phone maker) is placed in the top level, called "Iridium". It's defined as $100,000 and above.

That level of donation used to be defined as $100,000 to $250,000. [0] The removal of the top limit could in theory mean that Smartisan actually donated more than $250,000.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20161114061632/http://www.openbs...

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$280,000 !

Well, that works :-)

Never heard of Smartisan, checking out their phones now.

If you know Chinese, I will suggest you watching the videos of the release events. That's a very popular event in China since the speech skills.

I don't understand much Chinese, but here is a video of one of those events in case you want to see what jiyinyiyong is talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hPpeKPDoDg

It seems to be quite entertaining, by judging from the number of laughs/minute :)

If they are mandated by the PRC government to install spyware on all their phones... maybe you should reconsider that.

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