Best cheap phone 2021: Budget smartphones for $200/£200 or less

(Pocket-lint) - Just due to the fact that you privation a inexpensive phone, doesn't mean you person to wholly compromise connected the disposable features. There are plentifulness of bargain phones nether £/€/$200 - often truthful bully it seems bizarre a flagship phone costs astatine slightest 4 times arsenic much.

Budget phones mightiness not person the sharpest displays oregon the astir pristine designs, but an affordable smartphone tin inactive beryllium bully looking, connection decent specs, bully artillery beingness and coagulated show - each portion redeeming your wallet astatine the aforesaid time.

Who tin reason with that? Here's our usher to the champion fund phones around. If you person a small much to spend, check retired our sub-400 guide.

Moto G9 Power

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Motorola managed a ace awesome feat with the Moto G9 Power, bringing down the terms compared to predecessors with an adjacent bigger battery.

You won't beryllium excessively amazed to larn that the surface and show aren't precisely stellar compared to a existent flagship, but they're highly respectable astatine this price, and the information it'll past for days should number for something.

On this budget, there's thing other retired determination that tin truly compete.

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Motorola Moto G8

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There are a batch of Moto G bid handsets retired there, and the modular G8 is inactive a superior contender.

No, it doesn't person the champion cameras going compared to immoderate different models successful the range, but for the wealth you inactive get a lot: large artillery life, creaseless software, ample show (gaming is nary problem), and a refined plan compared to earlier equivalents too.

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Redmi Note 9

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Redmi is the much affordable marque of Chinese institution Xiaomi and its Note 9 offers a coagulated plan and physique for its price, coupled with capable powerfulness to bash astir things (despite being connected a MediaTek platform), and a camera that volition instrumentality a decent capable photo.

It mightiness person bundle that's a small little preferable compared to the likes of the Motorola devices connected this page, but it does present a large artillery beingness and it is simply a large fund telephone that delivers a batch of show for your money.

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Nokia 5.3

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The Nokia 5.3 offers a large artillery life, versatile camera strategy and a cleanable and ever up to day bundle experience.

It has a inexpensive physique compared to others connected this list, the macro camera isn't superb and determination is immoderate show lag, but if you don't person a immense fund to walk connected a phone, the Nokia 5.3 volition tick astir of the boxes for you.

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Realme 5

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Oppo is surely onto thing with its Realme brand. This phone's artillery beingness is exceptional, with adjacent two-day life; its surface is large; and its processor is ample for tasks and gaming alike.

That said - and portion we tin forgive the surface for not being the highest solution astatine this terms constituent - the alleged 'quad camera' is an oversell that you'll request to instrumentality with a pinch of salt.

Where the Realme 5 truly excels is successful delivering a balanced acquisition for the money.

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Writing by Britta O'Boyle. Editing by Conor Allison. Originally published connected 2 December 2014.