{"id":6158,"date":"2016-07-10T03:19:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T21:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:32:48","slug":"honey-i-cracked-the-screen-budget-phones-for-the-eternally-clumsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/?p=6158","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHoney I Cracked the Screen\u201d: Budget Phones for the Eternally Clumsy"},"content":{"rendered":"\nT<\/span>here are two kinds of <\/span>mobile phone<\/span><\/a> users: The first sort \u2014 more likeable \u2014 buy covers and scratch guards on the first day, remember to charge up every night, and use their devices for years until a new one is forced on them by natural technological progress. The second \u2014 and more common \u2014\u00a0sort, have somehow managed to break a very important feature of their brand-new device just 10 seconds after it\u2019s handed to them by the delivery boy, and must now wait 20 minutes every time they want a WhatsApp message to load.\n\nThis article is more for the second kind of person. For this lot, owning a phone that doesn\u2019t give you tiny cuts every time you swipe through <\/span>Twitter<\/span><\/a> is a luxury, and being able to access 4G at any given moment is a form of modern-day witchcraft. What they need isn\u2019t some mini-computer worth half-a-lakh that\u2019s going to unlock by looking at their face (provided they have a well-defined jawline and aren\u2019t closing their eyes). What these guys need is a phone that \u2014 despite whatever Apple Inc may tell you \u2014 manages to pack in all the features of expensive flagship models for under \u20b910,000, so no one has to regret wasting six months\u2019 EMI in two days.\n\nMotorola One Macro<\/b>\n\nGranted, you probably haven\u2019t thought about Motorola since <\/span>Snake II <\/span><\/i>was the pinnacle of mobile <\/span>gaming<\/span><\/a>, but the company has consistently been churning out above-average, and more importantly, cheap phones for years.\n\n\"Motorola\"\n\nThe latest that fits neatly into the under \u20b910,000 category, is the Motorola One Macro, a sleek, modern-looking phone that has three more lenses than the Nokia 3310: A macro vision camera, a main camera, and a depth <\/span>camera<\/span><\/a>. It also has a battery life of a day-and-a-half, so feel free to leave the house without your charger, and not panic halfway to work.\n\nAlso enjoy stealing your friend\u2019s <\/span>Netflix<\/span><\/a> on a 6.2\u201d (19:9) HD+ screen, and download as much as you can before they catch you, with 64 GB of storage, and you\u2019ll soon forget all about that iPhone X and its human-like emojis.\n\n

Motorola One Macro, a sleek, modern-looking phone that has three more lenses than the Nokia 3310.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nRedmi Note 7<\/b>\n\nOkay, you might have to be prepared to tell a white lie every time someone asks you what phone you\u2019re using, but the Redmi Note 7 is actually quite an impressive device.\n\nFor starters, call yourself <\/span>Khaleesi<\/span><\/a> because you just inherited a Snapdragon 660 SoC. You also get a bigger screen than the Moto mentioned above, so make sure you don\u2019t scrimp on going for the quality tempered glass, and you get 3GB RAM, which is impressive for something that\u2019s a seventh of the price of the latest Samsung flagship.\n\n\"Redmi\n\nThe only minus to this pretty cool phone is this weird, glossy blue back cover (which no one should technically be seeing anyway, because remember, you need to get a case).\n\nRealme 3<\/b>\n\nNo, we are not making this up, there\u2019s a phone called Realme, and fakers better not be caught using it.\n\n\"RealMe\"\n\nJokes aside, this is probably the nicest-looking phone in the completely-unidentifiable-under-\u20b910,000 category. It also comes with a MediaTek Helio P70 SoC, so make of that what you will, and has a dual camera set-up so you can capture every angle of your bhel before you take a bite. With 4GB RAM, a 3MP camera, and a triple slot for an SD card of your choice, there\u2019s nothing to complain about, really.\n\n

Nokia 2.3 runs on Android 9 Pie, and has 32GB of storage, which can be expanded to 400GB in case you\u2019re planning to download all seasons of Naagin<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nNokia 2.3<\/b>\n\nNo, it isn\u2019t the early 2000s, but you read that right \u2014 a brand new Nokia smartphone released in December last year at a \u20b98,200 price tag, which <\/span>this British Youtuber<\/span><\/a> thinks is both budget <\/span>and<\/span><\/i> brilliant. It comes with a MediaTek Helio A22, and 2GB of RAM, so it isn\u2019t going to be as fast as some of the options in here. Instead, what it does offer, is a chance to say you own a Nokia phone, which in 2020, is priceless.\u00a0\n\n\"Nokia\n\nThe phone runs on Android 9 Pie, and has 32GB of storage, which can be expanded to 400GB in case you\u2019re planning to download all seasons of <\/span>Naagin<\/span><\/i><\/a> for your next vacation. Pretty neat for a phone that costs approximately as much as a couple of AirPods. Plus it comes in three colours: Charcoal, Cyan Green, and Sand, so, yay.\n\nNow, the techie in you is probably thinking, \u201cYou haven\u2019t even mentioned the Vivos, the <\/span>Oppos<\/span><\/a>, and the cheaper Samsungs.\u201d But we trust that you watch enough ads in between the overs of a cricket match to figure those out for yourself. This list is by no means an exhaustive and definitive guide to budget phones, but the next time you find a phone disintegrating the second it touches your hand, you\u2019ll probably find it quite handy.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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