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What budget ($200-400) phones would you recommend? (lemm.ee)
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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.

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[–] ceiphas@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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.ee 4 points 9 months 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.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 1 points 9 months ago

seems its successors aren’t that well suited for custom ROMs

what do you mean?