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New york times wirecutter phone screen
New york times wirecutter phone screen









new york times wirecutter phone screen

We recommend phones with decent brightness, viewing angles, and colors, but budget phones almost always have LCD screens, and they’re dimmer and less vibrant than the OLED screens in many high-end phones.

  • Display: The screens on most budget phones are 720p, the minimum acceptable resolution.
  • Because most budget phones are unlocked, you can usually switch carriers, and this gives you the most choice when you’re shopping around for good deals on a plan. Although 5G support is appearing in more and more cheap phones, it isn’t yet a must-have feature.
  • Carrier support: The best budget phones work on all the major phone networks, and we don’t recommend models that are locked to a single carrier or have poor LTE or 5G band support.
  • Budget phones with the best combination of price and performance usually cost $200 to $300.

    new york times wirecutter phone screen

    The less powerful hardware is usually less battery-hungry, which lets these phones run longer on a charge than flagship phones. Any phone we recommend is fast enough to handle basic tasks like email, web browsing, and media playback.

    new york times wirecutter phone screen

  • Performance and battery: Most budget phones have a midrange processor and less memory than expensive phones offer.
  • If a manufacturer doesn’t have a good history of keeping phones updated, it’s harder for us to recommend that company’s phones. Lower-cost phones also tend to receive fewer updates, so they should have the latest Android software with recent security patches out of the box.
  • Software: A budget phone is slower than a high-end model, so it’s important that the phone isn’t loaded down with unnecessary, poorly performing apps and heavily customized user interfaces.










  • New york times wirecutter phone screen