Best smartphone under 10k in the market right now
The smartphone market has gone through a phase of serious upheaval in the past few years, with the budget segment redefining itself every six months. Offerings from manufacturers such as Xiaomi, Vivo and Lenovo have shook up the under 10k budget smartphone segment like never before, making it the most fiercely contested battleground for smartphones.
Phones in the budget segment today come with impressive hardware that can at times even rival top of the line high-end phones.
Here's our pick of the best smartphones in the crowded budget segment:
Nubia N1 Lite
The newest entrant to the list, the ZTE nubia N1 lite was launched in India on May 22, 2017, with a price tag of INR 6,999. The phone has been launched in a black gold color and available for sale exclusively through Amazon.
The Nubia N1 Lite sports a 5.5-inch HD (720p) display with 267ppi, and comes packing a 1.25GHz MediaTek 6737 quad-core processor coupled with Mali T7200 GPU and 2GB of RAM under the hood. The phone comes with 16GB of internal storage which can be expanded using a microSD card.
However, the phone excels when it comes to clicking pictures. The Nubia N1 comes equipped with a 5-MP front camera for selfies with aselfie beauty filters. At the back, it comes with an 8-MP camera with f/2.2 aperture, LED flash, and PDAF support. Keeping the smartphone ticking is a big 3,000mAh battery that Nubia claims is good enough to provide 500 hours of standby time and 24 hours of
Nubia has also thrown in a 3,000mAh battery to power the phone which claims 500 hours of standby time and 24 hours of talktime.
The specs, coupled with the price point, makes it an attractive offering for buyers looking for a phone in the budget segment.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 4
The successor to the hugely popular Redmi Note 3, the fourth phone in Xiaomi's Note series is an attempt to better a phone that ticked all the right boxes. Owing to its great battery life, premium looks, decent performance at an affordable, the phone comes highly recommended for new buyers.
The smartphone is powered by the Snapdragon 625 SoC, which to be honest is a slight downgrade on the 652 SoC found in the previous variant of the phone.
However, Snapdragon's 625 chipset paired with the Adreno 506 GPU and 2GB of RAM still churns out above par performance. The phone also tries to woo new buyers with its mammoth 4,100mAh battery that powers the 5.5-inch 2.5D curved glass Full HD display on the phone.
The smartphone is also a decent upgrade on its predecessor when it comes to optics. The Redmi Note 4 has been equipped with a 13MP rear camera with phase detection autofocus and a f/2.0 aperture. On the front, there is a 5MP shooter with an 85-degree wide-angle lens.
Lenovo K6 Power
Priced at Rs 9,999, the Lenovo K6 Power narrowly makes it into our list, and it can't be said that we aren't glad. The K6 Power is a brilliant phone for its price as it comes with premium looks, decent specifications and even a fingerprint scanner thrown in for good measure.
Wrapped in a metal unibody design, the phone brings a 5-inch Full HD display, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage. Keeping things running under the hood is a Snapdragon 430 SoC powered by a 4,000mAh battery pack.
On the optics front, the phone comes with a 13-MP camera on the back with phase detection autofocus and LED flash and an 8-MP camera on the front.
Vivo YF3
The only phone in the list with an above 1080p display, the Y53 by the Chinese smartphone maker retails for a price tag of Rs 9,999 and is available in two color variants - Crown Gold & Space Gray.
Powered by a 1.4GHz Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 processor, coupled with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of inbuilt storage that can be expanded up to 256GB via microSD card the phone with its beautiful QHD (2560*1440) display is a good buy for consuming multimedia content.
Redmi 4
Xiaomi's Redmi 4 which is available exclusively on Amazon India, as per Xiaomi sold over 250,000 units during its first sale in just eight minutes.
The phone comes to the table with impressive specs and two of its variants fall within the 10k range.
The budget king as it's being called brings with it a 5-inch IPS (1280 x 720 pixels) octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 435 processor, 2/3/GB RAM with 16/32GB storage depending on the variant of choice. It also comes packing a 13MP rear camera, 5MP front camera, 4G, VoLTE, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, IR blaster, fingerprint scanner all of which is powered by a 4,100mAh battery.