Looking for a phone under £300

[PlasmaShadow]

I'm looking for a decent phone that runs android, for under £300. Could I have some suggestions?

 

[Hlsgsz]

Sony Xperia Z5 Compact

 

[Rabmac]

The Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 and the Vodafone Moto G are both excellent budget phones.

That being said a new thing I have noticed are the Chinese phones you can buy from Aliexpress.com. For a similar price you can get a top spec phone. For example the UMI Super 4G LTE 5.5 Inch Helio P10 MT6755 Octa Core Smartphone 4GB RAM 32GB ROM 4000mAh 1920*1080 5.0MP+13.0MP Android 6.0 is selling for about £150 and has everything you can think of.

My friend recently bought one and I was very impressed with it when he showed me it. Just wish I had known about it before I bought the Vodafone Smart Ultra 6 lol.

 

[madmatt30]

I wouldnt personally buy a z3 or z5 compact.
They're truly great featured phones but the z3 suffers constant screen & glass back breakages from out of nowhere & the z5 suffers overheating.

On a premium performance level the one plus one is still hard to beat at £199 retail , the one plus 2 is good but not worth the £50 premium.

Out of the fairly budget Chinese brands , the ulefone power , oppo find ,& especially the huawei p8 are very very good phones.

The p8 is on a par with the oneplus
The ulefone & oppo are mtk octacore chipsets & while great for general use the msli GPU on them struggles with 3d gaming at 1080p.

The ulefone is incredible value for £130 though & has a 6amp battery that can last for 3-4 days (it also charges from flat in around 2 hours)

 

[PlasmaShadow]

Would the chinese brands have bad build quality, or are they fine?

 

[madmatt30]

Those 4 I mentioned are all very very good quality build & screen wise.

The helio that Rabmac mentions I have no idea but spec wise its a very very powerful model.

 

[PlasmaShadow]

Those 4 I mentioned are all very very good quality build & screen wise.

The helio that Rabmac mentions I have no idea but spec wise its a very very powerful model.

I'm also looking to use google cardboard/play pokemongo so do those phones have gyroscopes?

 

[yimmi]

nexus 5x

 

[PlasmaShadow]

nexus 5x

Isn't the new nexus 2016 coming out soon? If so, I might get that.

 

[Yvo]

The ZTE Axon 7 and the OnePlus 3 are two very decent chinese phones, I bet you could get them for about 300 pound.They beat phones that are twice as expensive in certain aspects. I'd go for the OnePlus 3(personal opinion).