If you crave a reliable phone that’s $200 or cheaper, you’ve come to the right place. Here are a few budget phone options availablethat we recommend. Some of these choices have been fully reviewed by CNET editors, while others are ones we hope to get our hands on soon. (We’ll update this roundup once their reviews are up as well.) Note that we’ve linked to the unlocked version of each phone where available, and they should run on most of the big four US wireless carriers, unless specified otherwise.
If the price of the cell phones shown here or at the vendor is more than $200, it’s because inventory and pricing (often from third-party resellers) has shifted since we originally published this story or the review linked herein.
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