The best budget smartphones in March 2021 (gray market)

The coolest budget smartphones to buy in March 2021 at points of sale that are not affiliated with

"officials". Minimum prices for options with delivery from China and within Russia in non-chain stores.

Table of contents

  • "Is it really budgetary ?!"
  • The cheapest smartphone among quality
  • Powerful processor "at cost" and NFC
  • The most profitable budget Xiaomi
  • The cheapest smartphone with the characteristics of expensive models
  • Only smartphones that are twice as expensive are better than him.

That is, we exclude such networks as Svyaznoy, M.Video "/" Eldorado "," Citylink "," DNS ", official stores of manufacturers, TMall and so on. For them there are separate articles with prices and realities of official retail.

Here we leave "just Aliexpress", othersChinese marketplaces (online markets, so to speak) and small Russian stores that have smuggled smartphones into Russia for the Chinese / European / American markets, and are ready to deliver these smartphones across our vast country.

"Is it really budgetary ?!"

Even though there are legends about Moscow that we will spawn herewe eat, but we eat sturgeon, I perfectly understand those who shout in the comments “is 8 thousand rubles really cheap ?!”. But I can’t help - because you guys are throwing tantrums to reviewers, the ruble does not cease to be in the fifth point relative to the dollar. And the Chinese have always traded and will trade smartphones with Russia in "bucks". Basic-level smartphones, which in this article will have prices of "7-8 thousand rubles", at the end of 2019 would cost 5-6 thousand. And what was sold for another couple of years for 13-15 thousand, today costs 18-22 thousand rubles. These, damn it, "state employees" have gone now.

You can still find something super cheap, butit will be just a little cheaper, while for today's 5-6 thousand rubles you will find rubbish, which was previously sold for 2.5-3 thousand. I will not advise anyone to buy a “sour cream product with milk fat substitute” for 55 rubles, if a normal sour cream costs 60 rubles.