Best budget phone?

arknor

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What's the best budget phone these days? for like £200 or so?

It's replacing an orange monte carlo so doesn't have to be anything special as long as it has android
 
Rabtech said:
Moto G, £105 from Tesco Direct then £2 for an unlock code from the bay. Sorted.
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lack of external memory slot would kill it if my current phone didn't have only 2gb + 2gb card :p

Looks good though and well under budget!

anyone else got any other suggestions?
 
Actually never mind alternative suggestions!

Ordered a moto G and will pick it up from tesco on Monday after 4pm :D

Thank you for making my decision an easy one Rabtech and Orcvader
 
arknor said:
Actually never mind alternative suggestions!

Ordered a moto G and will pick it up from tesco on Monday after 4pm :D

Thank you for making my decision an easy one Rabtech and Orcvader
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After reading the first post was going to say Moto G from Vodafone for £100 + £2 eBay unlock code. I got two last week for my niece and nephew.

Glad to see you got one already.
 
arknor said:
lack of external memory slot would kill it if my current phone didn't have only 2gb + 2gb card :p

Looks good though and well under budget!

anyone else got any other suggestions?
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Yes the Alcatel One Touch Idol S, £109.99 if bought in store but I called them up and amazingly got offered it for just £90.99 including free delivery by UKMail and they are an amazing delivery company, you can change the day its delivered easily online.

Can't believe nobody mentioned it, it has a Micro SD slot, 4G which the Moto G doesn't and a bigger 4.7` screen which is even better than the Moto G's I should know as i own both of them, like I said in another thread the Alcatel One Touch Idol S is criminally underrated, nobody hardly mentions it.
 
Bought my kid an Idol s, he broke his Note screen, as a stopgap phone but he loves it and wants to keep it, he loves it's lightness and sleek screen so much he no longer wants a Note 3 and is happy to wait till this time next year to get a Note 4, i'm thinking of buying one for my spare phone as my current spare is an Ace with a smashed screen.
 
picked my moto G up earlier and unlocked it with one of those £2 codes :)

Will look into rooting it later to get rid of some of the crap apps I don't need
 
kona786 said:
Exactly so if you do it later you'll have to set it up all over again.
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I meant later as in later on today when I can be bothered.

anyway wasn't much to set up.

turn on phone
select English
google sync
motorola migrate

>5 minutes later done

unlike when my ex bought a new iphone.... what a pain in the ass and long winded process upgrading from one iphone to the other is using itunes.....

The power of android
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arknor said:
picked my moto G up earlier and unlocked it with one of those £2 codes :)

Will look into rooting it later to get rid of some of the crap apps I don't need
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Not sure what apps you mean, it's pretty much vanilla Android. Moto assist/migrate etc are the only ones apart from the standard Google apps that come preinstalled, and they're pretty useful.

After having had a couple of budget Android phones, namely the HTC explorer and the Huawei ascend y300, both of which felt like a budget phone, the Moto G doesn't - Motorola must be making a loss on these, just don't know how they are doing it for the price!
 
I wouldn't bother rooting, as TallPaul_S says the bloatware is at a minimum and I wouldn't want to invalidate the warranty.
 
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