SAMSUNG GALAXY M31

£245, samsung.com

Samsung’s M-series phones go the other way on mid-range value, avoiding one niche in order to dial up the features the Korean powerhouse thinks every consumer wants. That means a big, big battery, with a whopping 6,000mAh of juice keeping the M31 running far longer than a typical handset, an unreasonably huge fourcamera array capable of taking 64MP shots, and a notched Super-AMOLED display with a 32MP selfie camera poking through it. That’s a pretty stacked package, and while the processor (as you might expect) isn’t a world-beater, Samsung’s combination of 6GB RAM and an octa-core Exynos 9611 does an admirable job for the price. And that’s the real win here: Samsung has managed to drop this exclusively through Amazon for under 250 smackers.

T3 SAYS: Incredible specs for an incredible price. Samsung’s budget phone is a winner.

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