Moto E V2
RRP £109
The Moto E brings up the rear in the budget smartphone category both on price and size. It can be had for around £75 and, surprisingly, isn’t terrible.
The Moto E is small, with a low-resolution 11.4cm (4.5in) screen that is better looking than you might expect. It weighs 145g and is quite thick at 12.3mm, but its curved back and soft-touch black plastic make it feel nice in the hand and easy to keep hold of. It has a small battery, but will last about a day if you’re careful with it.
The 8-megapixel camera on the back is weak and a bit slow, but will do at a pinch – you will have to work very hard to produce something worth printing, but it’ll capture the moment just fine. It only has 8GB of storage, but has a microSD card slot.
The best bit about the Moto E is the software. It’s unmodified Android and has been updated to Marshmallow. It probably won’t get the new Android 7 Nougat, but its bloat-free experience makes the whole phone feel much faster than the EE Harrier and similarly priced smartphones, full review journal
Verdict
A basic phone with bloat-free Android that isn’t frustrating to use.
EE Harrier Mini
RRP £99
The Harrier Mini gets most of the basics right, but comes with Android 5, which will be two years old very soon. It’s got a brushed-metal-like plastic back, decent build quality and feels like it could survive the odd drop. It’s 9.5mm thick and quite light at 124g, which makes it easy to pocket.
The 12cm (4.7in) 720p screen is quite small for a modern phone but is pretty good given the price, while 8GB of built-in storage might not be much, but there’s a microSD slot.
The 8-megapixel camera lacks good colour balance and detail, but is fine for the occasional emergency snap. Same goes for the front-facing selfie camera.
The Harrier Mini also comes with quite a few of EE’s apps, which you may or may not like. Its 1GB of Ram and older Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor gets the job done. A high-end gaming machine it is not, but its battery lasts a good day between charges, more if you’re careful.
Verdict
Cheap and cheerful, but its software is getting a bit long in the tooth.
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Microsoft Lumia 650
RRP £119.99
Microsoft’s latest budget smartphone effort attempts to be a premium device in look and feel at under £150. The outside looks great: a light, aluminium frame, all-glass front and a soft-touch plastic back, (which is a bit spongy in the middle). The 12.7cm (5in) screen is only 720p in resolution – meaning it’s not pin-sharp and you can discern individual pixels – but impresses, with good, bright colours and deep blacks.
It has a few rough edges here and there, but feels pretty good in the hand. All of that contrasts with the anaemic processor. It has the lowest of the low from Qualcomm – the Snapdragon 212 – and only 1GB of Ram, which is obvious in use. Apps can be slow to load, sluggish in operation and you can forget about anything more than simple games. The battery lasts about a day, but not much more.
The camera on the back is only 8 megapixels, but is relatively decent for a budget smartphone, only really struggling in low light. Not the best in this group, but not terrible. The same goes for the 5-megapixel selfie camera.
Windows 10 Mobile is a solid operating system, which gets things done and has excellent access to Microsoft’s Office suite and services, as you’d expect. Third-party app support is weak, however. There aren’t many big-name apps in the store, and those that there are are not updated regularly. Facebook is there, as are Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, but Snapchat isn’t, nor are Google’s Hangouts, Google Maps or pretty much anything Google or Apple, including Apple Music.
As a business phone, it’s decent if unspectacular, but consumers looking for more might be disappointed by the sluggish performance and app gap.
Verdict
A superficially nice phone that cuts it as a portal to Microsoft’s suite, but not much more than that.
Huawei Honor 5C
RRP £149.99
Huawei’s latest budget phone is the most expensive in this group, but also the best. It has the look and feel of a much more expensive smartphone, with an aluminium back, rounded plastic sides and a very solid build.
The front is all glass, with a crisp and colourful 13cm (5.2in) full HD LCD display. It’s a fingerprint magnet, though, which can make it difficult to see outdoors sometimes without a quick wipe down.
The Honor 5C has Huawei’s Kirin 650 processor and 2GB of Ram, which can handle most of the things you’ll want to do with a phone. It feels snappy and responsive, while the battery lasts longer than most of the others in the group at around two days of general usage if you avoid long periods of graphically intensive gaming. It’s got 16GB of storage but can either take a microSD card to add more storage a second sim for using two separate phone numbers and accounts on one phone.
The phone also has NFC for Android Pay, an FM radio built in and it runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow, but not as most know it. Huawei’s modifications, known as EMUI 4.1, change the look and feel, remove the app drawer and alter the way notifications are displayed. Some will like it; others will find it a little frustrating.
The rear 13-megapixel camera is one of the best ever fitted to a smartphone under £150 and rivals some top-end devices in producing detailed, accurate snaps. The 8-megapixel selfie camera is also decent, but is fixed-focus and can struggle in middling light.
Verdict
The software might irritate some, but it’s the best for under £150 that easily rivals smartphones twice the price or more.
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Vodafone Smart Ultra 7
RRP £135
The latest in Vodafone’s own-brand budget phones is the top-end Smart Ultra 7. It’s the biggest of the bunch here, physically a lot of phone for £135. The 14cm (5.5in) 1080p LCD is very good for a budget smartphone. The viewing angles aren’t quite as good as you’d find on a premium device, but it’s pretty crisp, bright and colourful. The phablet is 9mm thick and 150g, feeling well built. The back is a textured plastic, which feels a bit cheap but is durable.
Under the hood you get an octacore MediaTek processor, which won’t set the world alight but feels pretty snappy in operation and a cut above other own-brand rivals, with only occasional moments of lag when opening apps. There’s 16GB of storage, with a microSD card slot, and 2GB of Ram, which means it doesn’t get bogged down as you launch multiple apps. Battery life is more than a day, but not quite two, less if you’re running graphically intensive games.
The Smart Ultra 7 is a mixed bag when it comes to software. It’s running the latest version of Android 6 Marshmallow with few modifications. But Vodafone pre-loads a whole collection of its apps, some of which are useful, but others are just attempts to sell you other things. You can and should uninstall or disable most of them.
The 13-megapixel camera on the back is decent, lacking fine detail and producing images that are a bit dull. The HDR function is a bit slow too, which can produce blurry shots, but on the whole it’s solid for a phone of this price. The 5-megapixel selfie camera works, but isn’t anything to write home about.
Verdict
A lot of phone for the money if a cut-price phablet is required.
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