Best phone for £100?

What do you think of the Xiaomi Hongmi 1s I was considering buying one from eBay.

It costs around the £100 mark.

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Also known as Xiaomi Redmi 1s
GENERAL 2G Network GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 1900 / 2100
SIM Dual SIM (Micro-SIM, dual stand-by)
Announced 2014, May
Status Available. Released 2014, May
BODY Dimensions 137 x 69 x 9.9 mm (5.39 x 2.72 x 0.39 in)
Weight 158 g (5.57 oz)
DISPLAY Type IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 720 x 1280 pixels, 4.7 inches (~312 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 2
SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB
Internal 8 GB, 1 GB RAM
DATA GPRS Yes
EDGE Yes
Speed HSDPA, HSUPA
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth v4.0, A2DP, LE
USB microUSB v2.0, USB On-the-go
CAMERA Primary 8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Features 1.4 µm pixel size, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, HDR
Video 1080p@30fps
Secondary 1.3 MP, 720p@30fps
FEATURES OS Android OS, v4.3 (Jelly Bean)
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8228 Snapdragon
CPU Quad-core 1.6 GHz Cortex-A7
GPU Adreno 305
Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Browser HTML5
Radio FM radio
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Colors Black, Chinese Red, Metallic Gray/ blue, green, yellow panels
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- SNS integration
- MP4/H.264/H.263 player
- MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player
- Organizer
- Image/video editor
- Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF)
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input (Swype)
BATTERY Li-Po 2000 mAh battery
Stand-by
Talk time
MISC Price group About 120 EUR
 
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Wow - lots of replies! Thanks guys :)

I went to have a look at the Moto G, but neither Carphone Warehouse, nor o2 had one to play around with. I did go for the Limia 625 in the end, as it was £89 from CPW, as I was due an upgrade and didn't realise it, as I only bought the SIM from them.

I'm quite happy with it, except it does seem to take over your life, by combining contacts, wanting login details for email, xbox, facebook, etc, and always wanting locations setting and "anonymous" info to "make their services" better.I guess that's the age we live in though...

Overall though, I'm chuffed with the phone, and it seems HUGE in my hand compared to the old Blackberry.

Thanks again for the help guys :D
 
Munky1080 said:
I did go for the Lumia 625 in the end, as it was £89 from CPW, as I was due an upgrade and didn't realise it, as I only bought the SIM from them.

I'm quite happy with it, except it does seem to take over your life, by combining contacts, wanting login details for email, xbox, facebook, etc, and always wanting locations setting and "anonymous" info to "make their services" better.I guess that's the age we live in though...

Overall though, I'm chuffed with the phone, and it seems HUGE in my hand compared to the old Blackberry.

Thanks again for the help guys :D
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Good call ! I've had mine several months now and am delighted with it. It will be even better when it gets the Windows Phone 8.1 upgrade. The effective screen size is a lot bigger than the Moto G, which I also have. The 625 is 4.7" with separate navigation "buttons", the Moto G is 4.5 but that includes on-screen buttons. I haven't combined contacts, but then again I don't have facebook.
 
Really should have gone with the 630/635 :(

The screen on the 630 maybe be .2" smaller (irrelevant) but it runs new HW and the new version of the OS. Plus a better camera, removable battery and swappable back covers. Better battery life too.
 
Munky1080 said:
Wow - lots of replies! Thanks guys :)

I went to have a look at the Moto G, but neither Carphone Warehouse, nor o2 had one to play around with. I did go for the Limia 625 in the end, as it was £89 from CPW, as I was due an upgrade and didn't realise it, as I only bought the SIM from them.

I'm quite happy with it, except it does seem to take over your life, by combining contacts, wanting login details for email, xbox, facebook, etc, and always wanting locations setting and "anonymous" info to "make their services" better.I guess that's the age we live in though...

Overall though, I'm chuffed with the phone, and it seems HUGE in my hand compared to the old Blackberry.

Thanks again for the help guys :D
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Just so you know as its missed by some new users.

Go into you People Hub, you'll see 3 little dots in the bottom right corner, in this you will see options, here you can filters what contacts you see from what accounts, so you can remove all the Facebook contacts etc if you wish, but it wont effect your Facebook account ( ie your FB App)
 
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