Best Budget Phones Under £200! (Summer 2021) | Top 10 & One to Avoid
Best Budget Phones Under £200! (Summer 2021) | Top 10 & One to Avoid
Reviewing the best budget smartphones you can buy in 2021 for a price under £200, boasting smart camera tech, proper gaming grunt and very different Android experiences. Here’s my favourite cheap phones from Nokia, Xiaomi/Poco, Motorola and Realme, including the Poco X3 Pro and M3 5G, Moto G50 and G30 and Nokia 5.4.
One of the best smartphones that creeps under the cost of £200 in various sales is the Poco X3 Pro. This brilliant budget blower boasts incredible specs, a respectable camera and proper gaming chops, although MiUI 12 is rather divisive. The fresher M3 Pro 5G has just been reviewed here on Tech Spurt and costs even less.
If you prefer stock Android, check out the Nokia 5.4 or Motorola’s latest mobiles. The Moto G50 and G30 aren’t updated as reliably as that Nokia phone but do serve up some good specs at a low price point.
Love also to the Oppo A53 and Realme 8 5G, check out my unboxing and review videos of these handsets right here on Tech Spurt.
Best Budget Smartphones Under £200 Chapters:
0:00 – Skip this bit
0:51 – Motorola Moto G30
2:30 – Moto G50
3:31 – Moto G9 Plus
4:38 – Moto G9 Power
5:44 – Nokia 5.4
7:15 – Nokia G20
8:21 – Oppo A53
9:18 – Xiaomi Poco X3 Pro
11:09 – Poco M3 Pro 5G
12:04 – Realme 8 5G
12:40 – One to avoid!
I wonder if motorola and nokia actually pay this guy
How about Redmi Note 10?
this is why youre a great review. Dont just focus on the big-budget phones. more realistic for the average person. might not always get the big views but fits an important niche
I’m getting the samsung galaxy s10
Consider the phone realme 8 too. That phone has amoled display with in display fingerprint scanner
Great video that poco x 3 pro looks like its gonna be my choice. Can anyone tell me the name of the film at 6:39 , seen it before but forgotten the name of it lmao
nonsense !! u don’t know what u talking about !!!
Every Motorola you mention has a really BAD CAMERA. I wasted my money on g9 plus. Total waste of money. Big, heavy, my wrist was hurt and my doctor even asked me how did I do that. Battery lasts ONLY ONE DAY barely (due to big screen and high resolution) and I didn’t use it much! Realme 8 is fast, yes, but the camera isn’t good as well, it’s only sharpening everyting and it isn’t, I repeat, IT ISN’T what camera is all about. Plus, AMOLED which really isn’t THAT GOOD and consumes more battery. So NO! You should learn more about smartphones. The only smartphones worth saying that they should be bought are REDMI NOTE 10 PRO and POCO X3 PRO and M3 PRO (though, it isn’t available in my country to be bought), the rest is a total trash. I have no idea who pays you for the "recommendations" but at least do some research before you trully recommend something. Recommending something ONLY because it’s fast doesn’t help. People keep looking for more, like – camera – this is one of the crucial points to consider when buying a new phone. And for GOD’S sake – please stop calling His name if you don’t believe in HIM! You can’t call GOD’S name if you don’t need HIM!
Hey! No “love you” at the end?!
OnePlus fixed FHD/1080p Amazon Prime Video streaming today 5th August! Cheers! Loving Nord 2!!
Wanted a backup phone to complement my beautiful yet battery draining Pixel 4. Picked up the Realme 8 in Punk Black 6gb ram and 128gb of storage for £159.99 on sale. This phone should definitely get at mention when on.
ReUp?
Agggghhrr …aaaffgggrg….where is "love you…..must have love you"
What about the redmi note 9 ? Would you consider this ?
0_o that intro literally describes why I need a new phone wtf xD
@techspurt humm yeah Colin, I love the way you slo-mo the double handed phone twirling, but I need more if you want to butter my muffin. How about a sub £400 update? That might do it 😉
You placed the Nokia 5.4 at the 5.40 mark……. Very clever………
8:22 that wallpaper’s a beaut, what a good anime
Redmi Note 10S you recently looked at.
I picked up a N10 for 300$ and it was okay at best, I bought a Google Pixel 2XL for 130$ on amazon and it’s 10x better for something that’s so much older. Google phones are legendary! No 5G or 90hz screen but it actually feels fluid compared to the N10 feeling jittery!
Poco m2 pro missing
Hope i can have one Mr. TECH SPURT
Oppo find X2 lite is 199 very very good phone for the price
hey yall….good content
Do best phones under £300!
I liked the video before i watch i was waiting for this
No guessing what you been doing since "freedom day" Chris 🍺🍺🍺, and urinal at your local boozer must be seen plenty of your blowers over the years 🤣🤣🤣.
Hi from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. great video.
This is budget tablets not phones….
Realme 8 5G ☝️ 💪 😉 👍
Try to line up all phone for screen comparison, today it’s tuff to get a compact phone !
Hey Chris! Love your work from New Zealand 🙂 I’m looking for a new budget smartphone. Thinking the Oneplus Nord as it seems to have come down in price to about 200gbp on aliexpress and better specs than the ones you’ve reviewed here. What do you think? I would go Xiaomi/Poco but don’t want to deal with the MIUI/Bloatware. Cheers!
is redmi note 10 pro a good choice
I agree with the a12. I was using the older A10s and that was nothing but laggy and frustration.
Budget phones are becoming such great value it makes the flagships more overpriced than ever.
You forgot to say love you at the end 🙁🤣
What about Redmi Note 9T 5G?
If flagship’s weren’t offered on credit then I don’t think anyone would buy them anymore. Budget phones are so usable for the vast majority of us now that forking out a grand on a flagship wouldn’t happen.
I don’t have those contracts anymore now and have a SIM only deal with a cheap smartphone and am perfectly happy
Could you do redmi note 10s review.
Poco looks dead smart at the 8G ram
Think twice about buying Motoroala products. I encouraged my mother to buy a Moto-G (first generation).
Shortly before the end of the bog standard one year warranty, it started to play up. Very shortly after the warranty expired, she had to pay Motorola for some probably irrelevant repairs. Very shortly after return it failed again. Their attitude seemed to be ‘We’ve had your money, now go away in short sexual jerky movements!’. No fool, she promptly moved to apple, her Moto-G now a paper-weight.
A competitively priced unit that you get 11 months use out of is ultimately very poor value.I, for one, have purchased my first and last Motorola product.
waiting
Tried the newest Motorola and within 2 months the repair cost were double the phone cost..
Basic message: all these phones are poor except for the SD860 POCO X3 PRO. Which is frequently available from £159 or £179 in the UK direct from Xiaomi. Well below £200. Avoid anything with 720p screens and no stereo speakers and don’t touch SD662 models as they stutter like crazy and basically can’t play most games to a fair standard
My Moto G9 Plus is terrible. Too hefty to fit in a baggy jeans pocket of a full grown man (literally digs into my hip when sitting) and pointless 20:9 aspect ratio. Worst of all, the 4G constantly cuts out while still showing the icon and when using Google maps the compass constantly points north
What about Nokia 3.4?
Great video
You say the 480 chipset on the g50 can be a bit laggy but all the comparison sites give it a higher score than the 662. Can you explain please?
How’s samsung galaxy a52 5g?
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1More EHD9001TA
Sony WF-SP800N
Jabra active elite 75t
Which of these has better sound quality?