Mid-Range Smartphone Market

Budget and midrange are not the same thing

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I submit the asus Zenphone 3 Max, I love the 4100mah battery + it also works as a battery bank when you need it to which is a nice bonus. Pic related

>Buy Xiaomi Redmi Note 4
>Get 9 hours of SoT
>Cost me $200

I'm so glad I didnt fall for the buy-in-store meme

>>58966553
Wouldn't the Zuk Z2 be better?

>SD820
>4GB RAM
>8 hours SoT
>5 inch FHD display
>13MP Samsung camera, custom made
>nice design
>utouch (actually a great feature)

>>58969187
Forgot.

>$180

>recently on sale for $160

xiaomi mi5 or one of the redmis. mi5s/mi5s plus if you can stretch your budget

xiaomi has excellent displays with high color accuracy. the mi phones have full manual camera settings

>>58970381

Where do you even buy these chink phones? Will they work with T-Mobile or have the play store?

>>58972431
>Where do you even buy these chink phones?
from aliexpress or banggood. check kimovil to compare prices
>Will they work with T-Mobile
maybe not with LTE. see http://willmyphonework.net/
>play store?
depending on the seller it will ship with a global MIUI ROM installed with google play store etc pre-installed

I regret buying Asus Zenfone 2. Pure shit. Always buggy, came with bloatware, half of the time people call you, your screen freezes and as long as you turn on WIFI the phone becomes unusable for 10 seconds. I tried installing CM 13 but the problem is the hardware, not the software.
Just bought my new Moto G4 for £159 sim-free. So much difference on quality too.

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Huawei P9 Lite

One+ .. whatever they have cheap atm

>>58966553
zenfone 3 laser is alright, it's what i use.

get a case, though. i dropped it from about 3.5 feet and the bottom of the screen is shattered.

Still works, but the speaker is all messed up and sounds slightly out of phase, also using the touch screen where it's cracked is finicky.

8/10 - would buy a replacement once i have spare money to spend.

>>58972578

Ayy, thanks my dude. Useful info.

>>58966553
Zuk Z2

Zuk z2 meme

>>58966553
My Nexus 5 recently died so I picked up a Moto G4 Plus for about 200 USD.

> fingerprint reader (fast one)
>1080p
> 5.5"
> 16 GB storage + microSD slot
> dual-sim (dunno why I would need this in my country though)
> 2 GB RAM
> decent design, decent camera

The main drawback might be 2GB ram, but I haven't had any issues with it. The touch digitizer is worse than what's in flagship phones but you can't expect everything to be amazing in a cheapo phone.

>>58974993
The plus has 4GB of ram

How's the SOT?

>>58972578
The LTE issue is always a big turn off for me.

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>>58966553
In Romania it's fucking $320

you can get an iphone se for that same price

>>58969187
get out

>>58966553
Is there a CM for that phone?