The following list includes new and old favourites that are available to buy now, and at these prices you would be mad not to!
5 amazing phones for under $150!
#1 Xiaomi Mi4C – $120
The Xiaomi Mi4C hasn’t received much love on international sites, but now that the price has dropped well below $150 customers around the globe are tempted by the phone.
The Mi4C was launched as a budget flagship for those wanting an updated Mi4 and didn’t want to spend too much on the Mi5. The Mi4C offers LTE support (1800/2100/2600MHz) , a Snapdragon 808 chipset, 13-megapixel main camera, 5-inch Sharp display, slim body and dual SIM support.
The most amazing feature though is the price as the Xiaomi Mi4C costs only $120 online!
#2 ZTE Nubia Z7 Max – $123
Nubia might be on version 11 of their phones, but many fans of the brand are still head over heals with the previous Z7 (which is only 2 generations old).
The Snapdragon 800 powered smartphone comes with LTE support (1800/2100/2600MHz), 2GB RAM, and 32GB internal memory. The device also boasts a 5.5-inch display.
#3 Lenovo Vibe P1 – $147
The Lenovo Vibe P1 is basically a metal clad ZUK Z1 with only a few spec changes. Like the Z1 it boasts a 5.5-inch FHD display and fingerprint scanner under the home button but features a Snapdragon 615 chipset and 2GB RAM to keep thinks affordable.
The Lenovo phone also supports LTE (1800/2100MHz), has room for up to 128GB SD cards, Corning Gorilla Glass, and 13 megapixel main cameras.
#4 Xiaomi Redmi Pro 3 – $144.99
Yup, another Xiaomi but this time its the Redmi Pro 3 with all metal body and rear fingerprint scanner. The Redmi Pro 3 has become a firm favourite with many reviews for its nice balance of low-cost and great build, plus performance is spot on too!
The Redmi Pro 3 is great for those of you wanting a smaller phone as it comes with a 5-inch panel and profiled metal body. Specs include a Snapdragon 616 chipset, 3GB RAM, 32GB internal memory, 13-megapixel main camera, and LTE (1800/2100/2600MHz).
#5 LeEco X620 – $159
This one costs a little more than $150 but that extra $9 could be money very well spent. The LeEco phone comes with an all metal body, USB Type C and a 16-megapixel rear camera (the best of this list). The front camera is also an impressive 8 megapixel, and there is a fingerprint scanner, and decent 5.5-inch FHD display too!
Dual SIM, LTE (1800/2100/2600MHz) and a 3000mAh battery make up the rest of the specification highlights!
Get a fucking basic Redmi Note 3 Pro (16/2) with a silicon case and a good tempered glas screen protector for a 145$ from a same fucking sponsor instead all of those.
http://m.gearbest.com/m-accessories-id-308843.htm
Depends on what you’re searching for.
Z7 Max has a way better camera and its SoC isn’t totally deprecated.
Well Mi4c is probably best overly one from those presents hire but without SD card & only 16Gb of eMMC its a no go. Wouldn’t actually recommend ZTE for quality problems along with bad software support. Redmi Note 3 Pro is proven overlay good phone that is fairly popular & will have community support for the year’s to come. Camera is far from spectacular but battery life is spectacular along with rather really good performance it’s biggest flaw is lack of screen protective glass so I did calculate in & the best screan protector (not the one default offered) they have on Gearbest alone with silicone cover and all for 145$. Anyway that is the best they have to offer on Gearbest that fits into 150$ category.
Best regards.
I have a Redmi Note 2 for over a year now, without protective glass or foil, it is still scratch free, and it’s not like I was extra careful with it…
Think that the the screen protector doesn’t cost enough to make you wonder how or what culd happen. That is completely individual for instance pair of decent headphones last for me more than a two years & same ones lasted to the friend of mine less than three months…
Anecdotal evidence is never good.
Yes, lack of protective glass is a big undoing for Xiaomi. I bought a redmi note 2 and the screen was shattered by the second week. I replaced it but then shattered again after 1 month. I wanted to stick with Xiaomi but they have skipped protective glass up to the redmi note 4 and that makes it a no-go for me. I have been using a letv x600 and loved the experience so I’m upgrading to the x620. Hopefully Xiaomi will listen and add protective glass, even if its dragontrail. For now my future is with LeEco but I hope that they bring back OIS (from gen 1 phones), add SD storage and improve software processing of images (like xiaomi from RN2 onwards) … but not ruin the natural colors by trying to make them too vibrant
Bad quality problems and software support from ZTE ?
Nubia Z7, Z9 and Z11 were praised by everyone at launch, they have mostly good reviews and almost zero bugs out of the box. As for the software support, the community is well alive, even for the Z7 (go check XDA) as you can find a stable CM13 for Z7 Max…
BTW, I’ll buy one for my GF this week and if you were right I’ll come back here crying 😉
Ok not stellar quality, yes bad official support regarding the software & certainly not a big developer community behind to be honest not even Xiaomi have a rather that good developer community behind it but that also depends of popularity of particular model. Redmi Note 3 Pro is a rather very popular model this year (because it’s affordability & what it offers for the price) so it will have a rather good 3rd party development support next two years.
You mad bro? Redmi Note 3 Pro is a decent phone but it really depends what people are searching for. Not everyone wants a 5.5 phone and not everyone was impressed with the RN3 Pro either.
You know that I am.
Question who’s the best phone for under the 150 green bag one’s on the Gearbest!
So please show me a better one.
You had a problematic one as I remember. I don’t want to impress anyone but rather getting them to have a real decent & long lasting experience with it.
After all you know how they say beggars are not choosers. The Readme Note 4 is not a better option in my opinion & costs 50$ more, Zuk 2 is but that is another price category $260.
We are, me and you particularly hard to satisfy consumers but I don’t want to go into details would be enough to say how they still didn’t make a phone that I would consider full satisfactory.
I don’t have the RN3 Pro, MaxPower does and he doesn’t like it. The best phone for under $150 will be different for each and every consumer, there is no one correct answer.
Well I told you from what is available at the Gearbest.
I do think it’s a stellar choice at least for this money.
Bought Z7 Max for my wife – still a heck of a phone for 118$ on BG ( I like this, so would always prefer them over GB).
Just to be clear, you mean the Xiaomi Redmi 3 Pro – not the Xiaomi Pro 3 – don’t think there is such a model. It is confusing as there are so many Xiaomi models with similar names. There is the more expensive Redmi Pro with a 5.5 inch display and the Redmi 3 Pro with a 5 inch display – this is the cheaper one and is a variation on the Redmi 3. To add to the confusion there is also a Redmi 3s, a Redmi 3x and a Redmi 3s Prime!
I just bought a Redmi Note 3 Pro ( 2 GB RAM, 16 GB ROM version ) for a friend with $120 on fastcardtech… hell of a deal.
Redmi Note 3 Pro looks good too but reviews say its camera is not that good. I’m in between the Mi4c and the Z7 Max. They say Mi4c has the better camera while Z7 Max has the better headphone audio. Unfortunately Mi4c does not have an SD card slot. Maybe I’ll wait for Christmas sales.
I bought the Z7 Max for wife. Banggood and Gearbest hav’em for a really nice price – under $120. It’s better equipped than Mi4c, but has slower SoC. Camera is not far behind.
How’s the headphone audio? How would you compare it to other phones?
I got the z9 mini. pretty good phone too! the custom support is off the roof. I’d say 2nd after oneplus phones for me. oneplus has the best custom support
I thought the same exact thing ? i expected some list with good phones and than “oh, there are also this week’s elephone flagships, they are worse in every each aspect than other entries, but they piad to be in the list”
YES ELEPHONE IS A BRAND THAT IS NOT WORTH BUYING AT ALL, Capeesh ????
And don’t tell me you are one of the fake poster paid by Elephoney also ????
Finally a better review from gizchina.
And all old and outdated phones by now.
PPTV King7, Ramos Mos1 Max, Yotaphone II and Qing Cong Shallots Metal. All interesting and relative bargains at the moment.
Shallots is the 6753 version, right?
Also, yotaphone is full of spyware… Pptv is a revisited elephone vowney, but it’s not bad at that price, maybe the best out of those you mentioned
PPTV / Elephone Vowney? Don’t see the connection or similarity at all. Having got both the PPTV and the Ramos, the Ramos is actually the better buy due to battery and even larger screen, but both are great for the money if you specifically want 6″+.
From what i know, pptv was about to make something like letv, but than dropped the project… However, the phones were built by a third party company, which I suppose is elephone because aesthetically it’s similat to vowney, and there are traces of elephone in the rom (like elephone ringtone).
Again: the cong shallots metal you mentioned is the mt6753 version, right? It’s not the announced-and-never-released sd810 version, is it?
The PPTV looks nothing like the Vowney, can’t see any similarity. HK Elephone Comm Tech manufacturing might have had a hand, but I don’t think they offer any other 6″ phones?
Obviously the Shallots is not a never released version. It’s the pink one.
Just to be clear: I’m not saying the king7 is a rebrand, just elephone build it and you can tell it… The hardware is similar to vowney, the look is closer to p8000 and it has that “elephone-something style”…
I thought I really skipped the actual launch of shallots’ flagship… Actually, I was somehow hoping it a bit! ? is it still a good deal with a 6753 chip? I haven’t read anything about it
I think it is (or was, less so as the £ continues to sink), if you don’t mind pink, the silver version is a fair bit more. Like the others in my list though it’s just something different to the usual suspects (in the main list). Build looks good and the 6753 is solid and reliable and still found in more expensive newer offerings. A longer term gamble maybe, but the mainstream names are rarely a safe bet.
I know, I’m growing a little tired of how every list like that always ends up with a “redmi note 3 pro, there’s no other phone possible” ?
6753 is not bad, but I’m tired of that too: too many phones with that soc, and not enough with p10 and x20… Particularly the p10 has better performance and far better power consumption for a similar price, so I’m starting to avoid every phone with that older soc
PPTV and Ramos come with English as standard. As all are available from international resellers, I’m sure the others will as well.
The Ramos Mos1 Max (from Banggood at least) uses ArmPhone branded software and has no OTA. PPTV I guess will all depend on whether PPTV stay in the mobile business, which is debatable. But they both work well and are roughly 1/3 original selling price, so I’m happy.