Pleasure. Mine is a OnePlus 3T - which was a gift from my son after his firm replaced it with a newer model but, other than that, I would have gone Samsung again.
My latest phone has been my best, a Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Smartphone, 4GB RAM 128GB ROM 6.53 inch Display with a 48MP AI Quad Camera and a 5020mAh battery.
Takes truly superb photos, 159 euro.
I have had several Xiaomi phones, Pocophone F1, Mi9, two Redmi 7s (for work trip to US), and am eyeing up a latest release to replace the now ageing (but still able F1) - as far as I’m concerned, it is great kit, at a very reasonable price.
No restrictions at all so far with Xiaomi products.
Whether that will stay that way, given the recent Trump ordered blacklisting by the US DoD, remains to be seen. So far that DoD investment blacklisting hasn’t been extended to the Dept of Commerce Excluded Entity Listing, and Xiaomi is fighting the order in the courts.
Look at the Motorola G range. Immense battery life, very good value. If you read this you will get a good idea of what the Moto G series offers. Other phone in the same league get a mention. It’s a good, broad based look at the <£200 price range.
If my G6 failed, I’d be straight back to AMZ for a G9 or G30
Another plus for the Xiaomi Redmi - or the budget Blackviews. The Redmi is probably better value.
In general - the cheaper phones are less flexible on their memory - so any SD card is really only useful for photos - music etc - its nearly impossible to put apps on the card - so decent memory in the phone is more important. The Redmi comes with various memory options and the prices are pretty good - avoid 16GB internal memory it gets swallowed too quickly.
A lot of phones now claim Dual SIM when they’re actually 1 SIM and a SIM/SD slot - the Redmi and the 80’ish Euro Blackviews are both dual SIM with an additional SD card slot. Now how useful 2 SIMS are depends on how you use it - UK/France - Work/Home - for me its important for a lot of people its not - but worth nowing and considering.
Not had that problem, some apps compete to be king as with PC’s but my phone puts most of the files on the SD whilst access to program maybe stored on the phones memory.
for Xiaomi - on my third one and they are great value.