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.
I’ve been pretty happy with my Motorola moto g series phones over the last several years.
Pixel 6a, 7a
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.
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.
Probably still good recommendation as long as you steer clear of 2022 version.
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
A Pixel 7/7 Pro/7a renewed is right around that price range on Amazon right now. They have good hardware and 4 years of updates left, 5 for the Pixel 7a. You can’t go wrong with any of them.
Get a previous gen / 2 gen Pixel. They are often on sale especially this time of the year.
Pixel 6a was on sale for about $299CAD during Black Friday.
