Thoughts on a £500 budget - great camera, battery that lasts a day, and dual sim. Thinking of a refurbished S21 Ultra.

[ikra]

My phone screen just got smashed to bits. I'm not interested in buying the latest and greatest as I think previous 2 years has seen some great phones.

Currently at the £500 mark for refurbished I'm looking at the following.

• Pixel 6 Pro
• Pixel 7 (horrendous battery I heard)
• S21 Ultra
• Oneplus 11

And my other nice to haves are 5g, IP rated, and 256GB memory. Thoughts?

 

[ikra]

thanks I've added 7 Pro to the list, will decide tomorrow what to get

 

[ikra]

Ended up buying a Pixel 7 Pro used from back market for £470 where they've guaranteed screen to be in pristine condition. I would have grabbed the S23 but having had a P30 pro in the past with an optical zoom of 5x/periscope minimum (x3 doesn't quite cut it), I can't live with a phone without that anymore - concerts, sports events, ceremonies... . And 128gb storage is small enough to annoy me as I take a lot of videos.

Thanks all for the advice