The best smartphones under 300 euros (August 2022)

Blindly scouring the web and stores for best smartphones under 300 euros it’s a lottery game. The fateful threshold is in fact considered dangerous to cross when looking for a valid and at the same time lasting product: producers – in trying to offer a competitive product – must cut production costs here and there, and sometimes the result is a product intended for a very specific audience, or simply unsuccessful.

Offering the maximum possible at the minimum expense is not an easy art to master. Each waiver is added to what it has already been necessary to remove to contain spending below 1000 and then 600 euros, and so on: in this price range the quality of components such as fingerprint sensors, cameras, displays and processor it goes evaluated with particular attentionbecause it can make the difference between a pleasant product to use and a gadget with an experience of use to forget.

What we look for in the best smartphones under 300 euros

When the price of a smartphone is lower, it is necessary to lower the bar of expectations in this regard. Stellar cameras and fluidity of use on every occasion are no longer elements to be taken for granted, yet there are compromises to avoid even when buying the most affordable phones. Basically the value for money it must be excellent, or at most very good.

In particular, there are aspects that cannot be underestimated in the choice. The amount of memory (both ram and storage) dictates how comfortable the device will be in managing photo albums and open or installed applications; the processor it is one of the components that raise the costs of the product the most but at the same time plays a fundamental role in defining the experience of using the phone.

Furthermore, the devices should preferably be recent, or very recent. The less snappy processors and the smaller amounts of memory present in these gadgets make them “age” more quickly, because they struggle to keep up with apps and software updates that become more complex over the months.

Anything that comes in more, constitutes a preferential factor when choosing a gadget in this range. An over-the-top camera, a quality or particularly fluid display, fast charging,

Best of August 2022

Our selection is updated for the month of August 2022. Inside there are the latest smartphones released in recent weeks, but also slightly older products: in the first case an example is represented by Motorola Moto G32, while in the second one of the new entries is that of Samsung Galaxy A33 5G. For those who are not afraid to range even above this range, here is a comprehensive list of all the phones we liked this year, plus our ranking of the best mid-range and absolute tops.

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