Replacement phone to rival Samsung S7

[GIYess]

Hi techies. Hoping you can help me if you don't mind.
I have an S7 which I've had for years! Really like it and the camera is very good, even by a lot of today's standards.
I would like to get a budget or refurb phone for around £100 and really all the requirements are for it to be slightly better than the S7. It must have a camera to rival it though as it is my only source of family photographs.

My wife has an oppo something. While it's camera is better on paper, the photos never come out as good as on the S7.

Any suggestions?

[the-norseman]

Up your budget slightly and get the newest Pixel or Pixel A.

[GIYess]

Thanks. I've read some mixed reviews about pixels. Certainly the camera does seem pretty good.
They would be a fair chunk more than £100 though. Maybe I'm being unrealistic with that budget anyway.

[x5tuu]

The S7 is 8 years old now - and was about £540 at the time.

£100 is an inadequate budget, even for a refurb or used handset IMO and in all fairness, places that are still selling them (businesses not private users) they are still over £100 (BackMarket have them up to about £185!).

The camera has mostly always been middle of the road - the iphone 7 of the time was notably better as a direct competitor - the pics are generally oversaturated on them.

I would take a look at TechRadar et al but tripling your budget would yeild more luck IMO.

[the-norseman]

Most of the phones around £100 are probably equivalent if not worse than the S7.

[paulrockliffe]

the-norseman said:

Most of the phones around £100 are probably equivalent if not worse than the S7.

He can get a new S8 for £140 though, which fits the bill exactly.

OP - the nicest phone I've ever owned is the S20+, that phone is a brilliant design, it's so slim, the camera is a huge huge step up from the the previous models, so will blow your mind compared to the S7 and it's under £300.

If I were you, I would trawl eBay for new Swhatever phones and see what works for you budget vs modernity. I do this for my wife as she's not bothered about having the latest thing and 6 months ago the sweet-spot was £300 for the S21.

[GIYess]

Thanks for the advice. The options I was weighing up was a refurb older phone or boost the budget a bit and get an ok new phone. Looks like the latter is winning.

Will have a look around 300 and see what I can see. Just struggling with parting with that much for a phone nowadays with so much competing for cash!

[Tony_T]

GIYess said:

Thanks for the advice. The options I was weighing up was a refurb older phone or boost the budget a bit and get an ok new phone. Looks like the latter is winning.

Will have a look around 300 and see what I can see. Just struggling with parting with that much for a phone nowadays with so much competing for cash!

Do you top up your phone every month? if so how much?

[x5tuu]

The brand-new Redmi Note 13 may be a good shout, new out and £169 ... there are more advanced versions of it for increasing prices but that's the cheapest?

https://www.mi.com/uk/product/redmi-note-13/

[the-norseman]

paulrockliffe said:

He can get a new S8 for £140 though, which fits the bill exactly.

You can still buy S8 new? from where must be left over stock.

S8 also doesn't get OS updates anymore and probably not security updates either.

[HTP99]

GIYess said:

Thanks for the advice. The options I was weighing up was a refurb older phone or boost the budget a bit and get an ok new phone. Looks like the latter is winning.

Will have a look around 300 and see what I can see. Just struggling with parting with that much for a phone nowadays with so much competing for cash!

But it's not just a phone though, I bet you use the calender, access the Internet on it, record notes on it, you've already said it's your only source of taking photos, £300 or so for all that and more especially if you end up still using it for a similar timescale as the S7!