OT - decent Adroid phone ?500 or under?

I bought a pocophone f1, got android p update about a week ago. Battery life of two days and a 845 cpu. Really fast and has a SD card slot. Lots of videos how to replace the battery on YouTube - very easy. John Lewis and Carphone warehouse sell it.

moto g6 £200.

Plenty of choice in that price range.

Moto G6+ seems pretty competent all round with a pretty high spec for under £200.

ISTR they have removed the facility again from later android versions...

well I paid less than £200 for my galaxy J3.

Wherher it is 'decent' is a matter of taste

For a little while. I have been contemplating buying one of these:

Did you buy your phone in the UK or order it from abroad?

Moto G6, Pixel? Not a Samsung or Huawei.

There's an article about the best phones under £200 in the current issue of Web User magazine and it shows the Moto G6 coming out on top

From China but on Ebay.

Had about 6 various Redmi phones between family and friends, one was dead and the seller was useless but got reimbursed via Paypal.

The (working) phones have all been great, quick and responsive.

Sony XPERIA XA1 or XA2 or other XA. Available in Dual SIM with SD Card slot.

Dave W

Again the MotoG6, dual sim is available from John Lewis (make sure you ask for it) but the G6+ I got over the internet from Prague (reputable supplier EU phone).

But the battery is not interchangeable. SD and SIM slots all separate.

Probably worth adding that the battery is quite significant in capacity

- it will do a couple of days of light use without a charge. Also it supports "Turbo" charging and comes with a fast charger. So you can give it a full charge in less than a hour usually, and add quite a number of extra hours with just a 15 min charge.

Why not Huawei?

When I looked in November the Honor 8x seemed to be much quicker than the Moto G6

For instance Geekbench Scores:

Motorola Moto G6 Single Core 755 Motorola Moto G6 Multi Core 3930

HUAWEI Honor 8x JSN-L21 Single Core 1567 HUAWEI Honor 8x JSN-L21 Single Core 5567

I won't claim to know much about phones but my Nexus 5X was noticeably faster that my previous Moto G4 and the new Moto G6 benchmarks are slower than my Nexus 5X, only slightly faster than the old Moto G4.

The Honor 8x was noticeably faster than my Nexus 5X, in real life.

Obviously this doesn't comment on build quality. The Moto G4 was a very good phone at the time. I just wonder if the new Moto G6 is leveraging former glories.

Fast, plenty of memory + SD card.

Android v9 + very regular updates.

Battery lasts a full day.

Very good camera, fingerprint, NFC + pretty much every gimmick you can think of at a fraction of the price of the "new" models.

No NFC (see req from OP). Only Motorola Moto G5S Plus I believe has it, and they are quite pricey.

PS: this is a Samsung top-of-the-range phone from a couple of years ago, and not a lot has changed since (if any), so build quality, camera, screen resolution, weight, etc are of a much higher spec than, say, the Moto G range (I have a couple in the house), or many of the Chinese ones (they are fantastic value for money, but not in the same league when it comes to the above).

I have one and I use the NFC. Its the dual sim version I have. You can fit two sims and an SD card in the carrier.