We don't often recommend phones - especially non-WP phones - but we can't resist this one.
It's the Motorola Moto G, the company's first UK smartphone since Motorola's mobile phone division was bought by Google.
And as with the Google Nexus, they've done it again: a budget-busting quality handset that will make other manufacturers sit up and take notice.
The Moto G runs Android 4.3, with the promise of a quick update to the latest 4.4 KitKat in January. And Motorola hasn't tinkered with the OS with annoying overlays and bloatware. It's virtually stock Android.
It's a beautiful phone....great screen...the OS is fast with no annoying lagging...and it feels like a quality smartphone.
But it costs only £130 SIM-free or less than £100 if you get it on a pay-as-you-go upgrade.
It really does work as well and do as many things as smartphones costing three-times the price. Or four.
In the UK, O2 has it as does retailer Phones4u.
The time has come when you no longer have to shell out at least £500 to get a decent smartphone.
- Operating system: Android 4.3 Jelly Bean (to be updated to Android 4.4 KitKat in Janurary 2014)
- Display: 4.5-inch LCD display at 1280x720 resolution. 329 ppi
- Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor at 1.2GHz. (MSM 8x26, Adreno 305)
- RAM: 1 gigabyte
- Storage: 8GB or 16GB, two free years of 50GB on Google Drive
- Dimensions: 129.9 x 65.9 x 6.0-11.6 mm
- Weight: 143 grams
- Battery: 2070 mAh (non-removable)
- Rear camera: 5 megapixels, (4:3 for full resolution), LED flash, 4x digital zoom, slow motion video, burst mode, auto HDR, panorama, tap-to-focus
- Front camera: 1.3 megapixels
- Video capture: 720p (front anrear) at 30 fps
- Networks: GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz); UMTS (850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz); CDMA (850/1900 MHz). No LTE.
- Wifi: 802.11 b/g/n
- Bluetooth: Bluetooth 4.0
- Location: GPS/GLONASS
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