Not looking for me personally, so leaving the specs/features open, and generally interested in what people might recommend.

Imo there’s almost always some surprising budget phones floating around to learn about. Only condition I might add is that preferably they’re from 2022-2023, and if not, mention their release year to help know its version/update situation.

  • ceiphas@feddit.deEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    in that segment i always go to the moto g series, the current iteration (between 200 and 300€) is more than fast enough for me and they come with an unlockable bootloader and have normally a good custom rom support.

    • pacoboyd@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I would normally have agreed, but the last one I bought was TERRIBLE. I think it was 2022 version and they had problem sourcing chips, I think they used a Mediatek chipset and performance was unuseable.

    • Laser@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      That sounds good, I’m currently using a Redmi Note 8 which is still good but it seems its successors aren’t that well suited for custom ROMs. So when this one dies I’ll look into those

  • habanhero@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Get a previous gen / 2 gen Pixel. They are often on sale especially this time of the year.

    Pixel 6a was on sale for about $299CAD during Black Friday.

    • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Remember seeing this mentioned in another thread and ngl I was surprised to see it (and then not surprised that they were sold out some places, lol).

  • RachelRodent@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Poco F3 is 300 dollars at most(often goes for even lower) has a 120 hz screen and supports many custom roms includin /e/OS (the one I am using) has a snapdragon 870 meaning this bad boy will emulate most anything even some switch games.

  • rbesfe@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I got a used pixel 4a for $160 last year. I don’t really care about being on the latest android version, and security updates will keep coming for a few years at least