Best budget phone around £150 without going chinese

[The_Jackal]

Been looking at the Moto G5
What else should I be looking at in terms of getting bang for buck? (no 720 screens)
Also is there much difference between the 2Gb and 3Gb version?

[ging84]

what does going Chinese mean?

[The_Jackal]

I dont want to risk buying from Gearbest etc

[chadders74]

Ordered a moto g4 start of year for my wife, and I have to say it's brilliant. Big clear screen, no spam software, personalised colours and so on, very impressed.

[Spitfire2]

The_Jackal said:

I dont want to risk buying from Gearbest etc

So buy using Amazon/Amazon Prime. Oukitel K6000 Plus or Pro?

[hairyben]

chadders74 said:

Ordered a moto g4 start of year for my wife, and I have to say it's brilliant. Big clear screen, no spam software, personalised colours and so on, very impressed.

Picked up one of these for mine (mrs), was willing to spend more but you cant beat it and the outgoing same thing lasted her 3 years, shes delighted, I'm wondering why I bought a cat s60 toughphone when I could just get 3 of these and smash them without concern.

[NickM450]

Spitfire2 said:

The_Jackal said:

I dont want to risk buying from Gearbest etc

So buy using Amazon/Amazon Prime. Oukitel K6000 Plus or Pro?

That's the answer, I've bought 3 phones from Amazon, all Chinese. 2 were returned with no issues and I kept the 3rd. UMI Super, well worth a look. Great phone, plenty of features and a proper decent battery.

[sgrimshaw]

Checkout Wileyfox

[alorotom]

Blu Life Max ... £90 on Amazon

[DennisCooper]

Hi,

My requirements were a bit more involved, not a 'power user' for my phones, but I wanted;

6 inch or larger screen
720p minimum
DUAL SIM
Removeable Battery,
16GB minimum storage
Recognizable brand

I ended up with a Asus Laser 2 for £140 delivered. Got it a few months ago and I'm very happy with it.

The Motorola G4 is also a fantastic and well recommended handset as well at around £150-170.

Cheers, Dennis!

[sgrimshaw]

DennisCooper said:

Hi,

My requirements were a bit more involved, not a 'power user' for my phones, but I wanted;

6 inch or larger screen
720p minimum
DUAL SIM
Removeable Battery,
16GB minimum storage
Recognizable brand

I ended up with a Asus Laser 2 for £140 delivered. Got it a few months ago and I'm very happy with it.

The Motorola G4 is also a fantastic and well recommended handset as well at around £150-170.

Cheers, Dennis!

Sorry to hijack .... but ...

Dennis, have you used it for streaming music from Spotify/Amazon/Google etc?

I'm looking for a device to use as a hand-held media source/controller for my man cave. Sub 6" phones are a bit small and 7" tablets a bit big

[Bailey93]

second hand nexus 6, what more could you want

[sgrimshaw]

Bailey93 said:

second hand nexus 6, what more could you want

something "not" secondhand thanks.

[Orchid1]

Moto G5, got one for £150 and it's great.

[eccles]

Orchid1 said:

Moto G5, got one for £150 and it's great.

I've upgraded to a G5 from an original Moto G and I'm really impressed by it. The only down side is that I'm struggling to get used to the larger size.

[menguin]

Samsung J5? For all intents and purposes just as good as my S7 edge apart from when gaming and the lack of fingerprint sensor.

[DennisCooper]

Hi Sgrimshaw,

For a few years previous, and prior to the trend certainly in the UK, I had the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 and I used that for streaming ALOT. My contract over a number of years allowed me to extensively use it like that whilst driving 3/4 days a week to various clients. The geographic spread with me based in Slough, as far West as Bristol and up along to Telford & Stafford, as far north as Derby & Nottingham, South all along the Southern coast from Southhampton to Eastbourne and as far East from Norwich to Felixtowe & Rayleigh. So quite a large area. Service provider was always '3' on their 3G network, timeframe from 2012-2016 and always via the free app 'TuneIn'.

I'm not not able to test and use as far wide as that, perhaps 25-40% less area coverage. As yet, I've not used the Asus for streaming, but I will be doing so from perhaps next week onwards. I'll do some over the next few days but I can't imagine there'd be an issue. I'm now on 3's 4G service too.

I still think it's fantastic value for money, it is a second phone so the mid range specs are fine. GPS is it's other main function currently. I'm soon going to sell off some more much older phones knocking about in my spare's boxes and I 'might' go for a Galaxy C9 Pro, or if I can get a decent deal, the S8+ Dual SIM variant whenever that is announced.

Will update here perhaps by the end of the weekend on any decent amount of streaming I do with the Asus over the next few days.

Cheers, Dennis!

[Snails]

A bit over budget, but I went for the Moto G5 Plus mainly for the better camera and NFC. But the faster processor, increased RAM and expandable storage are nice to have. So far I have been very impressed for the money.

[DennisCooper]

Hi,

Sgrimshaw - Did a few hours streaming via TuneIn on the Asus, and all just as I expected, good quality and no issues. This of course is mainly signal quality dependent and as mentioned I'm on the 3 4G network where available. Dropouts do occur as can be expected, but again depending on where you are, can be just a quick 1 to a few 6/7 seconds or longer. Sometimes the App decides it's going to close, but I usually re-start the phone completely relatively often to minimise that sort of thing.

I will be streaming this way more often in the future too, so a nice takeover from my much loved Galaxy Mega 6.3

Cheers, Dennis!