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hey what is up guys in cabbie HD here and we like to focus here on the highest-end flagship smartphones the best ones of top of the budgets that are really pushing the boundaries of tech and that's great but that also usually makes us forget about the wave of awesome smartphones that fills in that lower budget in its wake they take awesome tech from the higher-end flagship brothers and bring it down into that lower price point one or two years later so while it's nice to focus on those high-end flash chips four seven eight nine hundred dollars because they're so incredible it's also nice to take a look at the sub $300 flag ships that are taking those awesome code features and bringing them down to the much more affordable level so from my personal experience these are the top five smartphones under 300 bucks number five is the Xiaomi me 4i at $250 this is one of the best-looking best designed budget smart phones out there the cost will be inflated a little bit by importing it but still for less than 300 bucks you get this slim sleek seven and a half millimeter thick frame with a soft touch back that actually reminds me a lot of the Nexus 5 and it's really lightweight and easy to hold its rocking a pretty quality 5-inch 1080p display and has a quad-core Snapdragon 615 two gigabytes of RAM and believe it or not a huge 3030 million power battery a lot of it in the design and the features it's getting come from its older cousin the Xiaomi me note and it even has this awesome adaptive display technology just a really impressive phone to look at and hold also that is a regular USB port on the bottom even though it kind of looks like USB see this was definitely running a heavier skin it's running something called my UI 6 on top of Android 5.0 lollipop it has these crazy wicked icons it's very colorful there is no app drawer it'll take a little bit of getting used to but again it is a very nice-looking and very well designed smartphone for the price point so number four is the 2015 second generation Moto G at a hundred and eighty dollars this guy borrows a lot from the flagship Moto X but is designed specifically to be low cost and it delivers at a pretty ludicrously low price it still manages to actually feel pretty premium in the hands it's well-built and you get features like the stereo front-facing speakers and the near stock Android experience with a few enhancements thanks to that Moto X now they couldn't bring moto maker down to this level but you actually get a removable back with this phone which made room for swappable back covers of different colors whenever you want and they threw in a microSD card slot for expandable storage over the stock eight gigabytes and the specs are pretty alright - you will suffer with a slightly subpar 720p display and a pretty weak camera but I mean everything else for the price you really can't go wrong here oh and shout out to the even cheaper Moto e which brings back 4G and subtracts 30 more dollars from the price of the already awesome Moto G so that brings us to number three and it's actually relatively new phone that's come out this year it's the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3 and it's 250 bucks the idol burst onto the scene really a few weeks ago and has quickly become a budget favorite thanks to its big bright 5.5 inch 1080p display and great performance it's pretty decent build - not too tall for a 5.5 inch screen but also pretty thin which is kind of nice and it has a front-facing speakers and a 2910 milliamp hour battery not bad and honestly it's a pretty fast phone - it's rockin what initially looks like a super skin version of Android but it's really just an icon pack and then some other smaller tweaks and it's been one of the best performers on this list it also has a 13 megapixel camera on the back which is nothing too crazy in terms of quality but it's definitely also quite fast also a neat feature up its sleeve since it is a completely symmetrical phone on the front if for some reason you want to flip the button placement or something it has what's called a reversible mode where it just flips the entire UI upside down and works exactly the same so the number two best budget phone and it's actually another one that just came out this year for the first time is the Asus zenfone 2 and it's 300 bucks this one was actually first announced a while ago and most of the type came from being the first smartphone with four gigabytes of RAM which is great but I haven't personally noticed a difference versus three gigabytes but I'll take it and this is another budget phone that shines for its build and its performance it is a decent 5.5 inch 1080p display although viewing angles I guess are a little bit weak and then you get a quad-core processor 16 gigs of storage and a 3000 milliamp hour battery and it's built well with a matte brush to look on the back and a pretty hefty weight to it it's definitely not lightweight and it has a removable back too so revealing a dual SIM card slot and you guessed it a micro SD card slot asus went with rear facing volume buttons to keep the sides clean which I really like they're not quite as tactile or as big as LG's buttons but they're still pretty good and then they for some reason went with a power button in the worst imaginable spot on a 2015 smartphone top-middle I don't know who decided to do this but you know at least you get double tapping the screen to wake and double tapping to sleep and the software itself like I said works pretty well it's a skin for sure on top of Android 5.0 lollipop and it has an Intel quad core chip inside that kept everything moving pretty smoothly I could game on this thing - you got some some pre-loaded asus stuff but overall pretty nice experience and definitely feels in the hand like a lot more than what you pay for it so the number one best smartphone you can buy on a budget under 300 bucks for the second year running is the oh so popular oneplus one it's gotten a permanent price drop recently you can now buy it without an invite system and it's now exactly $300 this guy needs pretty much no introduction I've done multiple other videos about this phone it's just a freak basically it has a quality 5.5 inch 1080p display a fast quad-core Snapdragon 801 chip 3 gigabytes of RAM a huge 3100 million power battery with a pretty ridiculous like industry-leading battery life and awesome performance from its choice of roms based on stock Android and the phone itself is built pretty well - it feels great in the hand the unique texture of the sandstone black version is pretty interesting and it's not too huge for a 5.5 inch phone there's a reason why this guy won best budget smartphone for 2014 from me last year this thing is legit the oneplus one also has a 13 megapixel camera that's really good and that's a nice bonus because usually when you go down in price you really start to sacrifice on the camera so this actually has a nice camera that sort of competes with at least in the image quality Department some of the other much higher-end flagships that's basically it it's the oneplus one and it's kind of funny because it's not really built off of another high-end flagship where it gets its features from it is its own flagship which is pretty awesome for the price so there you have it those are the best smartphones you can get at a low budget in 2015 right now also I want to give an honorable mention to you first of all the Sony Xperia m2 which is cut from the same cloth as the Sony Xperia Z flagships so you get that waterproofing at a low budget also the Microsoft Lumia 640 which is hands down the best cheap Windows Phone and has an awesome display and a pretty decent battery life and also the sharp aquos crystal which I did an entire video about it's the best design budget smartphone by far I'll leave a link to that along with all the other smartphones I've talked about right below that like button if you want to check any of them out uh and yeah that's basically it so moral of the story here is a lot of the smart phones that we can get for $300 today rival the experience you get from the phones we would have spent six or $700 on three or four years ago so that's something to be pretty happy about thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys the next one peace