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Re: Ask HN: Cheap but decent quality Android smartphone?

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Post by gaspoweredcat »

Lenovo P2 a damn fine device all round that packs one real killer feature, the best battery life you will see on a smartphone. its combination of the snapdragon 625 chip and gargantuan 5100mah battery have seen me through 4 days of my normal usage (around 11-12 hours SOT)

not only does it pack solid battery life but its a generally nice device, 4gb ram, an AMOLED screen, dual sims (or a sim and microsd) running a pretty close to stock android (recently updated to android N)

im from the UK so prices will be in GBP here, im not sure how they translate to the US but the phone can be had on contract for £20 a month or £199.99 on pay as you go from Three (Unlocked)

Re: Ask HN: Cheap but decent quality Android smartphone?

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Post by gaspoweredcat »

atmosx wrote: post #11

I have a Elephone P9000 it is decent but has flaws and for one it is not half as smooth as a half-powered iPhone 5S but does the job and I enjoy the extra disk space and the clear, huge screen, playing HD videos. I bought it online at 200 bucks, not sure if its cheap or not. Was cheap compared to my previous mobile, the iPhone 6S

i had a p9000 and was reasonably impressed too, while maybe not the best battery life and its fingerprint reader was somewhat inaccurate for the price it was a generally good phone (not a patch on the lenovo p2 that replaced it for the same amount of cash though)

Mine started having issues though, very random ones too and no matter what i did software wise i couldnt seem to fix it, eventually i noticed why, although it had seemed to survive my motorcycle crash it was in fact bent like a banana!

Re: Ask HN: Cheap but decent quality Android smartphone?

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Post by 0942v8653 »

manvsmachine wrote: post #6

Moto G4 or G5 (when the 5 comes out). The Moto G pretty much invented the category of inexpensive, solid performing phones with a non-tampered-with Android experience.

Was just about to suggest the Moto G. A computer science class in high school (we paired up with a tech school) used these phones as a class set. Solid build, not too expensive, good stock experience, not-noticeably-bad performance.

Re: Ask HN: Cheap but decent quality Android smartphone?

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Post by auxym »

manvsmachine wrote: post #6

Moto G4 or G5 (when the 5 comes out). The Moto G pretty much invented the category of inexpensive, solid performing phones with a non-tampered-with Android experience.

Own a G4 Play, highly satisfied. Long battery life. Minor downside: no compass.

Re: Ask HN: Cheap but decent quality Android smartphone?

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Post by eb0la »

manvsmachine wrote: post #6

Moto G4 or G5 (when the 5 comes out). The Moto G pretty much invented the category of inexpensive, solid performing phones with a non-tampered-with Android experience.

I've had some trouble with moto G4 - just google for phantom touch.

If you use the device for email, etc.. probably you won't notice. For development/testing is a mess.

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