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Geoyo Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

Youth version

I've seen the following on a web site which reviews smartphones:

"These photos show the Xiaocai Edge running a quad-core MT6589T 1.5Ghz chipset, but apparently this is just the youth version and the premium model won’t be released until the new 8-core chipset is available."

What about this expression, "youth version"? I know how it is meant, but I want to know if it's natural English, because it seems a little strange to my ears.
  

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I haven't seen this phrase before. Does it mean 'the basic version'? It may be technical jargon, or it may be English written by a non-native speaker.

— Clive

  • I haven't seen this phrase before.
  • Does it mean 'the basic version'?
  • It may be technical jargon, or it may be English written by a non-native speaker.
  • Clive
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I haven't seen this phrase before. Does it mean 'the basic version'?

It may be technical jargon, or it may be English written by a non-native speaker.

Clive
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So it is not standard English? It means "standard" or "basic" version, as opposed to a more expensive premium version. The web site reviews chinese smartphones, so maybe this is some translation quirk from the chinese language?

When I google for "youth + chinese smartphone" I get a lot of results, a lot of different chinese manufacturers use this expression to label their smaller, cheaper
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CliveI haven't seen this phrase before. Does it mean 'the basic version'?It may be technical jargon, or it may be English written by a non-native speaker.
It's not technical jargon. They mean preliminary, first, or initial. The 8-core has double the number of processors as the quad, but apparently it is not ready to be released. My young relatives "the youth"
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What phone do you use, AlpheccaStars? Now I'm curious Emotion: smile

On several occasions, the "youth" (smaller) phone has been released
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geoyoWhat phone do you use, AlpheccaStars? Now I'm curious
My phone is an ancient super cheap plain old vanilla Samsung. It is not an iPhone; it's not even a flip-phone. I can't even do "texting" on it.
geoyoCould it just mean "youth" in the sense of a technically inferior brother of the bigger phone? Just like kids who are not as phys
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