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Best Cheap Android Smartphones [March, 2015]

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OnePlus One

OnePlus One

OnePlus is another lesser-known brand, but they make a great phone. They've received some bad press, but the OnePlus One still needs to be on this list. Even if the pre-order mess is still going on, it's a decent phone. Their approach is offering an excellent device with nearly stock Android, or the popular CyanogenMod software. A team that's been developing Android software and 3rd party ROMs for years, but has recently gone commercial. Today they confirmed Android 5.0 is coming soon.

The OnePlus One is essentially one of the best phones from this list, and is only $299. It has a 5.5-inch 1080p HD display, a powerful Snapdragon 801 quad-core processor with 3GB of RAM, a 13 megapixel Sony camera, 4G LTE, and a large 3,100 mAh battery. All of this runs Android 4.4 KitKat and is only $299. There's also a 64GB model available if you have the extra cash. We're looking forward to the OnePlus Two. And yes, that's a confusing name. Google's Nexus 5 is no longer for sale on the Play Store, so this has to replace it as the best powerful device around $300.

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3 Comments

3 Comments

  1. Cobra Jockey

    03/18/2015 at 7:44 pm

    What the hell is wrong with Google lately, nothing but buggy Android OS releases for the last 3 years! Their F’ed Up my 2012 Nexus 7 with both 5.01 and 5.02. I had to do complete resets to get it even working but still crippled, hell if I’ll do this again with 5.1 and I’ve refused LolliCrap all together on my 2013 N7 32GB! Jesus, Google has turned into buggy OS Update CrApple!! Maybe we should switch to Window Mobile!!

  2. George keith

    03/22/2015 at 4:40 am

    thats exactly what I will do next, turn to Windows 10 once it hits the market. Lollipop is a nightmare, full of bugs and instability and renders a phone, which cant make phone calls anymore completly useless.

  3. Thor Aackerlund

    03/22/2015 at 1:01 pm

    I hear ya on the Lollipop complaints. After reading about it, I’m going to hold out for awhile for the issues to settle down. The good thing is that if you have a device already running Kitkat or older, there’s not really any pressing need to upgrade. I always like to let others do the testing if I can :) Obviously that’s not an option with a phone that comes with stock 5.0+.

    Windows Phone is a fine OS, but the apps are minute by comparison. If you mainly use the built-in apps, and a handful of major market apps that are on basically everything like FB, Twitter, etc, then you are okay. If you like to use more obscure apps, you may be disappointed. Windows phones are also notorious for lacking an upgrade path. I had a flagship windows 7 phone that had more than the necessary specs to run windows 8, but of course they never bothered to do the work of actually doing it.

    And of course, Apple runs the iOS treadmill where they make the releases available for their older phones, but they end up somewhat crippled in performance with the upgrades. To be fair, their phones are usually good for about 1 OS upgrade and still work fine, but by the 2nd OS release, they’re in trouble.

    These things are too expensive on the high end to be obsoleted so quickly, and I find Android to be the best in terms of handling that. With custom super low resource roms, you can have a very old dual-core Android that runs like a beast outside of gaming :)

    I find that many people that have complaints about Android are closely related to big carriers and some phone makers adding TONS of garbage to the OS. Android is SO much better running and stable in stock form, with only the apps and add-ons that YOU want. A stock AT&T, Verizon, etc Samsung Galaxy phone is an absolute cluster%$ck of junk. It’s a shame, because then people get the idea that Android is just a mess, when it’s just the carrier and Samsung crappiling things in there like there’s no tomorrow. It also makes the battery life a ton worse.

    Ah well, use what you like, enjoy it, and always wait a little bit before ‘upgrading’ :) cheers.

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