Budget-y Android phones

[dxg]

Well, the black Swift is now down to £100 (clearing old stock?) at Amazon, so I'm going to give it a punt.

[sgrimshaw]

Presuemably, the Swift is to be discontinued and replaced by the Spark.

Great phone for £100 though.

[dave_s13]

Eversleigh said:

dave_s13 said:

Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 was/is regarded as the "best" budget phone you can buy.

Not the best looking thing but cheap, and very good.

+1 I bought one from reading the reviews here. £105 from Amazon I think, plus a 99p unlock code from eBay threw in a 3 sim card and job done. Impressive phone for the money.

Mine has just starting shutting off randomly at anything less than 30% charge. Fksticks!!

[DervVW]

Mullered battery?

[dxg]

sgrimshaw said:

Presuemably, the Swift is to be discontinued and replaced by the Spark.

Great phone for £100 though.

Looks like it's the case - no longer available from Wileyfox's own site.

The reviews for the Spark have been mediocre. I'm looking forward to my year-old but seemingly better Swift. It will be an upgrade for a 2013 Moto G, so even though it's a year out of date it's the best bang for my buck I think. Interesting that a year-old phone should win out over a Oneplus 3, which I'd been looking out for for the last few months...

[dave_s13]

DervVW said:

Mullered battery?

Probably. It's not removable though.

Less than 12m old so should be under warranty. I just can't be arsed with the process.

[dxg]

Well, the £100 gamble phone turned up.

Nice phone, but this cyanogen mod thing is permanently running at 20% cpu load (according to powerline). I'm sitting here watching the battery life deplete in front of my eyes. Watched a youtube video and watched 5% of the battery go in 5 minutes.

It was a gamble, so far not impressed with the OS.

Ah well, live and learn.

[Funk]

Anyone looking for a good budget phone, the Nexus 5X is currently down to £169 SIM-free at Carphone Warehouse:

https://www.carphonewarehouse.com/lg/nexus-5x.html...

[dudleybloke]

Umi Touch is £115 and the Umi super is £200 and they are both very high quality bits of kit.

[anonymous-user]

Funk said:

Anyone looking for a good budget phone, the Nexus 5X is currently down to £169 SIM-free at Carphone Warehouse:

https://www.carphonewarehouse.com/lg/nexus-5x.html...

Seems a good price but with the caveat that even the lightest of users are going to struggle with 16gb of storage IMO.

[bingybongy]

dxg said:

Well, the £100 gamble phone turned up.

Nice phone, but this cyanogen mod thing is permanently running at 20% cpu load (according to powerline). I'm sitting here watching the battery life deplete in front of my eyes. Watched a youtube video and watched 5% of the battery go in 5 minutes.

It was a gamble, so far not impressed with the OS.

Ah well, live and learn.

Doesn't sound right to me.
My cyanogen OS on home screen is at under 5% (attached pic) using power line and I easily get all day out of a charge

[carreauchompeur]

Yeah, same here. Not sure what's occurring.