I got a brand new budget phone, a motorola g45 5g.
It is a region specific phone afaik, so it’s damn cheap at around 100 bucks for 8GB ram (not virtual but actual), 128gb rom, snapdragon 6s gen3 and a 50mp (shrunken/merged to 12mp to supposedly improve quality) and a macro camera nobody will ever use, it has a selfie camera of 16mp. Android 15.
tbh it is limited to 1080p 30fps, it still manages to capture good videos somehow with enough light.
One thing I am surprised about is the management of the dynamic range, it captures both my skin and the background sky perfectly, both with the front and back, for comparison I also had a 150$ xioami phone (a sad battery it has, gets discharged in 15 minutes), it either captured the face or the sun.
The HDR is I can say the best at 90-100 bucks (you can get discounts on this phone too).
Also captures better low light photos at the price than other competitors.
It’s not the best, not the worst, it heats a lot sometimes, and it jitters while capturing a video if it is hot. Which got fixed with the android 15 update somehow, it does not jitter any more, if you’re on android 14 it jitters.
It runs CODM on ultra without lag.
I use a S22U (from ebay) as my daily driver, it is great. I just wanted an extra phone as a backup if my main one ever breaks or falls by accident, samsung is not cheap to repair.
Btw did I mention motorola had zero bloatware, I had to install the messages app seperately because it almost came with nothing installed.
I realized throughout all this, the quality does not rely on the price tag of your equipment, but how you capture it.
I like the motorola, cheap, to the point, good performance and camera, stock android, no bs.
) and somehow really Chinese companies always wins in these fights, because it’s simply cheaper to make it there.
