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A smart­phone worth up to 15,000 rubles is a bud­get seg­ment, but some­times the qual­i­ty of a prod­uct can com­pete even with “advanced” and “cool” mod­els.

Often the pur­chase deci­sion is not dic­tat­ed by per­son­al opin­ion and per­for­mance require­ments, but is based on the pref­er­ences of friends, tal­ent­ed per­sua­sions of sell­ers or flashy adver­tis­ing.

Such a choice will not lead to good: in the process of using it, a per­son begins to under­stand that he does not need half of the built-in “good­ies”, and it was also not nec­es­sary to over­pay for the brand. In 2022, you can find a smart­phone worth up to 15,000 rubles, which will have every­thing that the user real­ly needs.

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Things to con­sid­er when choos­ing a smart­phone in this price seg­ment:

• Under­stand which fea­tures you use the most.
• Bat­tery — its capac­i­ty will deter­mine how long you can use the phone. Also, pay atten­tion to the charg­ing method.
• The proces­sor — it depends on what your smart­phone can do.
• Oper­at­ing sys­tem — if you need a spe­cif­ic appli­ca­tion, then you should def­i­nite­ly look at what plat­form it is avail­able on. For exam­ple, many pro­fes­sion­al apps are only avail­able on the iOS plat­form, while many gov­ern­ment apps are avail­able on Android.
• Cam­eras — their capa­bil­i­ties deter­mine how sharp and con­trast the pic­ture will be.
• Per­son­al pref­er­ences: gamers will want a big screen, music lovers will want a ded­i­cat­ed head­phone jack or sup­port for spe­cial music codecs, and so on.

The edi­tors of Kom­so­mol­skaya Prav­da ranked the best smart­phones under 15,000 rubles in 2022. When com­pil­ing the selec­tion, the tasks with which the device can cope, the price-qual­i­ty ratio and the opin­ion of an expert were tak­en into account.

 

Editor’s Choice

vivo Y31

With­out a case, the back cov­er looks very nice: a com­pact cam­era unit, col­or tints on the body … I want to hold this one in my hand, but the man­u­fac­tur­er missed a lit­tle with the form fac­tor. I made hard ribs on the sides that cut into the palm. The plas­tic, though mat­te, col­lects prints. So imme­di­ate­ly put on the com­plete trans­par­ent case.

What’s clever about the design is the recessed lock but­ton that inte­grates the fin­ger­print scan­ner. She will be com­fort­able to use. The screen bezels are quite thin, which is good news. How­ev­er, you can put this phone in the rank­ing of the best smart­phones under 15,000 rubles only because of one cam­era. For this price cat­e­go­ry in 2022, the class result out­per­forms the com­pe­ti­tion. The device is pow­ered by a Qual­comm Snap­drag­on 662 chip. It per­forms well in every­day tasks, but heats up when play­ing 3D games.

Main characteristics

Screen	6.58 inch­es
Oper­at­ing sys­tem	Android 11 with Fun­touch 11 skin
Mem­o­ry size	RAM 3 or 4 GB, inter­nal stor­age 64 or 128 GB
Main (rear) cam­eras	triple 48 + 2 + 2 MP
Front-cam­era	16 MP
Bat­tery capac­i­ty	5000 mA
Dimen­sions and weight	164x75x8.4 mm, 188 grams

Pros and cons

Anti-glare dis­play. The front and rear cam­eras take good pic­tures. With­out false exag­ger­a­tion, in terms of val­ue for mon­ey in 2022, this is the best smart­phone

Con­tro­ver­sial case form fac­tor: be sure to hold the phone in your hand before buy­ing. The proces­sor heats up from games. Brand­ed shell is devoid of smooth ani­ma­tions

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Top 14 best smartphones

1.OPPO A55

The smart­phone is avail­able in two col­ors: black anthracite (it’s a lit­tle less deep black) and blue with an iri­des­cent gra­di­ent in the cor­ner — a play of col­ors. The first is strict, the sec­ond looks more youth­ful. True, you won’t be able to enjoy the design with­out a case for a long time: the man­u­fac­tur­er saved on the oleo­pho­bic coat­ing of the case. It is nec­es­sary to leave less greasy prints. There­fore, by the way, a com­plete sil­i­cone case will come in handy here.

The cell phone has a decent cam­era for its price. Do not look at the 50 megapix­el num­ber — yes, for­mal­ly the sen­sor sup­ports such a res­o­lu­tion, but the pho­to will be wild­ly heavy and shoot­ing in this mode must be set sep­a­rate­ly in the set­tings. By default, the qual­i­ty will be around 12 megapix­els, but this is enough for the eyes for social net­works. The phone shoots video in Full HD, but there is no sta­bi­liza­tion of the shoot­ing. Although in 2022 you real­ly need to try to find a sta­bi­liz­er among smart­phones under 15,000 rubles. The proces­sor here Helio G35 is a good aver­age.

Main characteristics

Screen	6.51 inch­es
Oper­at­ing sys­tem	Android 11 with Col­orOS 11.1 shell
Mem­o­ry size	RAM 4 GB, inter­nal stor­age 64 or 128 GB
Main (rear) cam­eras	triple 50 + 2 + 2 MP
Front-cam­era	16 MP
Bat­tery capac­i­ty	5000 mA
Dimen­sions and weight	163.6 x 75.7 x 8.4 mm, 193 grams

Pros and cons

It can work as a “pow­er bank” and pow­er anoth­er device. The bright dis­play copes with the day­time sun. Good cam­era for a smart­phone in this price range

After turn­ing off, it takes a long time to accel­er­ate to nor­mal oper­a­tion. Marked plas­tic case. Con­tro­ver­sial place­ment of the front cam­era in the upper left cor­ner — not all full-screen appli­ca­tions look organ­ic on such a dis­play

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Smart­phones up to 20,000 rubles

Choos­ing a bud­get smart­phone is like assem­bling a con­struc­tion set that lacks details.

2. realme C21Y

The com­pa­ny pro­duced a suc­cess­ful bud­get smart­phone with the same name, but with­out the Y pre­fix. In 2022, it will no longer be found new in the com­mu­ni­ca­tion salon. This is a slight­ly mod­i­fied ver­sion of a suc­cess­ful mod­el, which got into our rat­ing of the best up to 15,000 rubles. The case is rough — for those who like to car­ry the phone with­out a case. This coat­ing min­i­mizes the risk of acci­den­tal slip­ping.

The cam­era is very mediocre in terms of shoot­ing land­scapes and inte­ri­ors. With all this, a good por­trait mode, when you need to shoot one or two peo­ple. Able to rec­og­nize not only the fin­ger­print, but also the face of the own­er. But you shouldn’t be too deceived by tech­nol­o­gy: it sim­ply com­pares the phys­iog­no­my with your pho­to in mem­o­ry, and does not scan it like in Apple devices.

Under the lid is a Unisoc T610 proces­sor — one of the most bud­getary eight-core solu­tions on the mar­ket, but at the same time extreme­ly suc­cess­ful. You can play demand­ing games, and han­dles every­day appli­ca­tions with ease.

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Main characteristics

Pros and cons

3. ZTE Blade V2020 Smart

ZTE Blade V2020 Smart. Pho­to: market.yandex.ru

A smart­phone with a bor­ing design but good specs. Visu­al­ly, only the bright pow­er but­ton plays here, but such a deci­sion is not for every­body. It has a sol­id screen with pro­tec­tion against greasy fin­ger­prints. The max­i­mum and min­i­mum bright­ness are also good. In day­light on the street and in pitch dark­ness, work­ing with a mobile phone is com­fort­able.

The cam­eras work well. And in night mode, the result sur­pass­es the oth­er par­tic­i­pants in the rank­ing of the best smart­phones up to 15,000 rubles. There is a wide angle lens. The “front-end” can dis­ap­point here, or rather, its back­ground blur and beau­ti­fi­ca­tion mode (i.e. appear­ance dec­o­ra­tions: smooth skin, big eyes, etc.) — it is too arti­fi­cial.

The Medi­aTek Helio P70 proces­sor allows you to play mod­ern games at medi­um set­tings. And every­day tasks click like nuts.

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Pros and cons

4. TECNO Pova 2

This is a high-qual­i­ty smart­phone from a Hong Kong com­pa­ny that has fea­tures that make it notice­able and wor­thy of atten­tion. What are its advan­tages: an incred­i­bly large screen and a pow­er­ful bat­tery, the charge of which is enough for sev­er­al days of con­tin­u­ous talk time.

The body of the smart­phone is made of good plas­tic, which will not scratch. The plas­tic is ribbed, which means that the device will not slip in your hand at all. In addi­tion, a pro­tec­tive case is includ­ed as stan­dard.

The device is equipped with a triple card slot, which makes it con­ve­nient for those who use the ser­vices of sev­er­al oper­a­tors. Sup­ports SIM hot swap fea­ture.

Main characteristics

Pros and cons

5. Redmi Note 7

Not at all new for 2022, but today it deserves atten­tion. Tru­ly a peo­ple’s phone for their mon­ey. The back cov­er of the case is not made of plas­tic, but glass. On the sides of the frame made of poly­car­bon­ate, so as not to slip in the hand. The fin­ger­print scan­ner is built into the rear pan­el, which is out­dat­ed today, but not with­out con­ve­nience.

The screen is cov­ered with Goril­la Glass 5 — a durable thing. The pic­ture qual­i­ty is many times bet­ter than the new mod­els of the same cost. The cam­eras shoot well: both the front cam­era and the main one. The Snap­drag­on 660 proces­sor is a com­plete gam­ing machine. Love 3D fight­ing games, tanks and oth­er shoot­ing games — this is your choice. It also does a good job with video edit­ing.

Main characteristics

Pros and cons

6.HUAWEI Y6p

The Chi­nese com­pa­ny has a sub-brand Hon­or, which focus­es on the “youth” of devices. First of all, in terms of design. But the “huawei” here crossed their prin­ci­ples and made a rather strik­ing mod­el them­selves. Please note that this mod­el came out after the sanc­tions that the US imposed on the brand. There­fore, there is no usu­al Play Mar­ket app store. You need to down­load every­thing from the pro­pri­etary App­Gallery. But it has a wide range of basic pro­grams that Russ­ian users use, so it’s not so scary.

The phone is small and com­pact. Inside is a Helio P22 chip. A slow proces­sor that some­times thinks before open­ing an appli­ca­tion. Games are gen­er­al­ly bad for him. But it works sta­bly, there is enough for the Inter­net and scrolling social net­works. But its decent bat­tery reserve of 5000 mA con­sumes spar­ing­ly.

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Pros and cons

7. BQ 6430L Aurora

BQ 6430L Auro­ra. Pho­to: market.yandex.ru

Russ­ian smart­phone assem­bled from Chi­nese com­po­nents. For 2022, it has very good char­ac­ter­is­tics. Let’s start with the cam­era — four mod­ules at once, which is rare for the price cat­e­go­ry up to 15,000 rubles. “Front cam­era” is gen­er­al­ly a record 20 megapix­els. All shoot well.

It’s a pity the brand didn’t fin­ish with the tech­ni­cal stuff­ing. I would like a 5000 mAh bat­tery, and at least 6 GB of RAM. Then we would no doubt put him on the first lines of the rat­ing. The Helio P60 proces­sor allows you to play toys at medi­um graph­ics qual­i­ty set­tings.

Main characteristics

Pros and cons

8. Alcatel 3L 5029Y

Alca­tel 3L 5029Y. Pho­to: market.yandex.ru

This smart­phone mod­el has already expe­ri­enced sev­er­al rein­car­na­tions. We would put it in a con­di­tion­al cat­e­go­ry: “cheap, cheer­ful, but it works well.” For tasks for every day copes with dig­ni­ty. The design does not stand out, the fin­ger­print sen­sor is on the back.
The triple cam­era works with vary­ing degrees of suc­cess. It is dif­fi­cult to find fault with the main mod­ule (tak­ing into account the price of the mobile phone). But the wide-angle cam­era did not work out. The smart­phone is not bulky. On board, the Helio P22 chip is the “bud­get state employ­ee”. But it saves the bat­tery, it is enough for surf­ing the net and post­ing pho­tos on the social net­work.

Main characteristics

Pros and cons

9.OPPO A54

Styl­ish and easy to use smart­phone with a large screen, good bat­tery and cam­era.

This mod­el is a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the brand’s mid-bud­get line. Made in a beau­ti­ful steel case, equipped with splash pro­tec­tion — you can not wor­ry that the phone will get wet in the rain or from acci­den­tal splash­es of water and stop work­ing.

The bat­tery of this device is designed for almost three days of “stan­dard” use (calls and mobile Inter­net) or almost 20 hours of watch­ing videos online. At the same time, the time required to ful­ly charge the bat­tery is not so long: in 2.5 hours it is ful­ly charged.

An added bonus is the beau­ti­ful appear­ance. The smart­phone is avail­able in two vari­a­tions: black gloss and twi­light blue gra­di­ent. More­over, in the lat­ter ver­sion, the col­or will change depend­ing on the illu­mi­na­tion, and at times the phone real­ly “plays” with shades.

Main characteristics

Pros and cons

10 Nokia C30

The com­pa­ny is cur­rent­ly focus­ing on pro­duc­ing pure Android phones. It is fast, sta­ble, and fans of diver­si­ty and cus­tomiza­tion can down­load dif­fer­ent launch­ers from the Google Play store. The mobile phone will fit a large male hand. A child or a frag­ile lady will not be very com­fort­able with this. But fans of watch­ing videos on the phone will appre­ci­ate it: because of the capa­cious bat­tery and the dis­play diag­o­nal is impres­sive.

The cam­era here is unpre­ten­tious, from the cat­e­go­ry of “is it okay.” Fans of self­ies and pho­tog­ra­phy on mobile phones, bet­ter look at oth­er mod­els from our rank­ing of the best smart­phones under 15,000 rubles. The proces­sor and the sup­ply of RAM for 2022 are not seri­ous here. But we repeat once again: the oper­at­ing sys­tem is clean, so what is there is enough for ordi­nary tasks. Games are only the most banal.

Main characteristics

Pros and cons

11. Itel A48

The Itel com­pa­ny for a long time pro­duced real rar­i­ties of our time — push-but­ton tele­phones. And then she quick­ly sup­ple­ment­ed her smart­phone lines. It turned out well, so we bold­ly include one of the mod­els in the rank­ing of the best for 2022. This is an ide­al mobile phone for a child or a per­son who only needs instant mes­sen­gers.

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Its tech­ni­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics are rather weak. Only 2 gigs of RAM will not take out pro­duc­tive toys and video edit­ing. But the clean and light Android 10 makes up for some of the omis­sions. It does­n’t have a bulky dis­play by today’s stan­dards. The tube fits well in a jeans pock­et. The cam­era qual­i­ty is accept­able.

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Pros and cons

12 Realme C21

Realme C21 4/64 GB. Pho­to: Realme

A bud­get smart­phone equipped with 5G sup­port and enhanced secu­ri­ty fea­tures: you can set up recog­ni­tion not only by fin­ger­prints, but also by face.

The device is equipped with a good large screen with high-qual­i­ty col­or repro­duc­tion. The cam­era built into the smart­phone allows you to take high-qual­i­ty pic­tures, and the qual­i­ty will not suf­fer from insuf­fi­cient light­ing.

The pow­er­ful proces­sor of the phone allows you to install any games and appli­ca­tions that will work with­out fail­ures and lags. The case of the device is made of plas­tic, which does not leave marks from the hands — you do not have to wipe the phone.

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Pros and cons

13. Samsung Galaxy M12

Sam­sung Galaxy M12. Pho­to: market.yandex.ru

You look at this bright mod­el from Kore­ans, and the eye rejoic­es. But you take it in your hand and opti­mism melts away: the mobile phone is thick­er than its com­peti­tors and notice­ably heav­ier. And also these black frames around the edges of the dis­play … The very case when we do not rec­om­mend buy­ing with­out look­ing on the Inter­net. Be sure to twist it in your palms first, try it on your pock­et or bag. And only then, if every­thing suits, then you can order online at a bar­gain price.

The screen sup­ports a screen refresh rate of 90 Hz, while 60 Hz often dom­i­nates in the seg­ment under 15,000 rubles. The ani­ma­tion will be more detailed. But the 90 Hz func­tion can be turned off, as it “eats” charg­ing.

Kore­ans often suc­ceed with cam­eras in their best smart­phones, and this mod­el is no excep­tion. Sol­id wide-angle, accept­able night mode, ade­quate shoot­ing indoors. For 15,000 rubles, such a cam­era is almost a gift. The gad­get is pow­ered by the Exynos 850 proces­sor — this is the devel­op­ment of Sam­sung. You can for­get about good games and video edit­ing. Well, or stock up on patience.

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Pros and cons

14. Zoji Z33

A smart­phone of the mid­dle price seg­ment, immune to dust, mois­ture — the phone can “dive” to a depth of up to 1 meter and this will not affect its per­for­mance in any way. Equipped with a large screen, there is a fin­ger­print recog­ni­tion func­tion. The kit includes a pro­tec­tive case and film. The smart­phone has slots for two cards

The device has a good proces­sor, thanks to which all ser­vices, appli­ca­tions and games will work with­out freez­ing and crash­ing. And the cam­era that this smart­phone is equipped with allows you to take pic­tures of decent qual­i­ty in any light.

An added bonus is the cus­tom design. The phone belongs to the cat­e­go­ry of pro­tect­ed devices, so it does not require the use of cas­es. This is off­set by an unusu­al appear­ance: a beau­ti­ful tex­ture of the back pan­el and bright orange or green inserts.

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Leaders of the Past

1. Xiaomi Mi Max 3

Xiao­mi Mi Max 3. Pho­to: Xiao­mi

This is a smart­phone with a large screen, which is con­ve­nient to work, watch videos, surf the Inter­net. Sup­ports all Euro­pean and Russ­ian mobile net­works. The case of the device is made of sol­id met­al (alu­minum), it has slots for con­nec­tors.

The front of the phone is cov­ered with glass for bet­ter pro­tec­tion. This smart­phone does not have hard­ware con­trol but­tons (home, for­ward, back). The wake-up sys­tem responds to a dou­ble touch. Addi­tion­al con­ve­nience — adap­tive back­light: the device is equal­ly well viewed both in the sun and in the dark.

The device is thin and light, it fits com­fort­ably in the hand. The appear­ance of the device is sim­ple and ele­gant.

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Pros and cons

2. DOOGEE S59

DOOGEE S59. Pho­to: DOOGEE

Styl­ish phone with a futur­is­tic design. Com­bines a large amount of mem­o­ry and a pow­er­ful proces­sor. A full bat­tery charge is enough for two days of full use, while the charg­ing process itself is incred­i­bly fast: in just a cou­ple of hours, you can again enjoy com­mu­ni­ca­tion, watch­ing your favorite videos or lis­ten­ing to your favorite music tracks.

The smart­phone is equipped with an audio out­put ampli­fi­er — even the hear­ing impaired can use this device. In addi­tion, thanks to this bonus, the phone can even replace the play­er — you can lis­ten to your favorite music.

The device is equipped with a pow­er­ful proces­sor that fans of games and enter­tain­ment will appre­ci­ate. There will be no “slow­downs” when using.

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Pros and cons

3. Alcatel 3L 2018

A com­pact phone with a good screen, which trans­mits a high-qual­i­ty image, and at the same time it is con­ve­nient to oper­ate the device with one hand. There is a face unlock fea­ture.

The device is equipped with a good bat­tery, which will allow you to always stay in touch — it can with­stand up to 25 hours of talk time.

The device has a pow­er­ful proces­sor — most non-gam­ing appli­ca­tions run smooth­ly on this phone. The device pro­vides the pos­si­bil­i­ty of installing a mem­o­ry card or an addi­tion­al card of anoth­er mobile oper­a­tor.

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Pros and cons

4. Samsung Galaxy A12 (SM-A125)

A styl­ish smart­phone that can be bought in three col­ors: black, red, blue. The case is made of high-qual­i­ty plas­tic of two types: the bot­tom is mat­te, the upper part is ribbed — so that the device fits com­fort­ably in the hand and does not slip.

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The phone is equipped with a large dis­play, which makes it con­ve­nient for watch­ing videos, movies, brows­ing the Inter­net, turn­ing pages. An addi­tion­al bonus is that the screen of this smart­phone does not glare in the sun, but is well read.

On the rear pan­el there is a mod­ule of 4 cam­eras — the qual­i­ty of the pic­tures tak­en by this smart­phone is high, the image is clear. The bat­tery is pow­er­ful, holds a charge well — it lasts almost 20 hours in video mode.

A nice bonus: the pres­ence of a con­tact­less pay­ment mod­ule.

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Pros and cons

5. HUAWEI P smart 2021

HUAWEI P smart 2021. Pho­to: HUAWEI

This is a smart­phone that does not have to be expen­sive to pay for, but at the same time it offers all the basic func­tions that a mod­ern per­son requires. This is an ele­gant device made of high qual­i­ty plas­tic. Avail­able in two col­ors — black and green. The body of the device is shiny, pleas­ant to the touch.

The device has a triple slot for cards — con­ve­nient for those who use cards from dif­fer­ent oper­a­tors. The smart­phone is equipped with cam­eras that trans­mit a clear image due to fast focus­ing and col­or repro­duc­tion.

The phone has a large screen, and the dis­play trans­mits a high-qual­i­ty image with good bright­ness and con­trast — the user’s eyes will not get tired even after sev­er­al hours of work­ing with the device.

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6. Xiaomi Redmi 9T NFC

Xiao­mi Red­mi 9T NFC. Pho­to: Xiao­mi

The smart­phone is made of high qual­i­ty plas­tic. The back cov­er of the device has a tex­tured “pat­tern”, which makes using the device safe and con­ve­nient even with­out a case — the own­er may not wor­ry that the phone will slip out of his hands. An addi­tion­al bonus is a neat­ly designed block of cam­eras that prac­ti­cal­ly do not pro­trude from the body. This is con­ve­nient because you don’t have to wor­ry about the cam­eras being dam­aged.

This is a device with a good screen — the pic­ture it trans­mits is clear, rich in col­or. In this case, the user can choose one of the three col­or ren­der­ing pro­files — one that will be bet­ter per­ceived by the eyes.

The smart­phone is equipped with high-qual­i­ty stereo speak­ers, which makes it pos­si­ble to lis­ten to your favorite tracks not only with head­phones, but also with­out them.

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7. Vivo Y20

A bal­anced eco­nom­i­cal ver­sion of a smart­phone. Made of high qual­i­ty plas­tic with a gra­di­ent col­or. There is a small cutout on the front pan­el of the phone for the front cam­era.

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The dis­play of the device has a good sup­ply of bright­ness. The kit includes a pro­tec­tive film, which is imme­di­ate­ly glued to the screen of the smart­phone. The device’s screen itself is large — it is con­ve­nient to watch videos, surf the Inter­net.

The smart­phone has a high-capac­i­ty bat­tery, which makes it pos­si­ble to use the device with­out recharg­ing for a long time — up to two days. The device has a slight­ly unusu­al loca­tion of the fin­ger­print scan­ner — it is built into the pow­er but­ton.

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How to choose a smartphone

For help in choos­ing a smart­phone up to 15,000 rubles, we turned to an expert — Alexan­der Romanyuk, head of mobile divi­sion of Leno­vo in Rus­sia.

Thanks to the con­stant devel­op­ment of tech­nol­o­gy, even in smart­phones up to 15,000 rubles, you can get a very sol­id set of fea­tures.

There are stan­dard para­me­ters that can make the device uni­ver­sal for 90% of the buy­er’s tasks. These include:

• large screen, suit­able for watch­ing videos and TV shows;
• the pres­ence of an NFC mod­ule for con­tact­less pay­ments;
• good set of cam­eras.

In order to more accu­rate­ly say what oth­er char­ac­ter­is­tics are impor­tant for bud­get devices, you need to build on the final needs of the buy­er, says Alexan­der Romanyuk.

For exam­ple, for many users it is extreme­ly impor­tant that the smart­phone works as long as pos­si­ble. To do this, first of all, you need a large bat­tery capac­i­ty, for exam­ple 6000 mAh. There is a clear trend in the smart­phone indus­try to increase bat­tery capac­i­ty.

Most man­u­fac­tur­ers are try­ing to offer a large (5000 mAh) and very large (from 6000 mAh) bat­tery capac­i­ty so that con­sumers do not have to wor­ry about recharg­ing their smart­phone.

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