Best Budget Phones

Moto G5 Plus Vs Honor 6X Vs Redmi Note 4
 

- Shreya Bhattacharya

Talk about budget phones, and we have lots of options today. Welcome Lenovo’s Moto G5 Plus with an exceptional camera in this range (though it doesn’t quality in ace in other categories, obviously!) The rest 3 phones do have exceptionality in different categories and we are going to compare category-wise.

SPEED AND FLUIDITY 

Testing the phones side by side, the Honor 6X quickly falls behind. In day-to-day usage, the Honor 6X shows very noticeable lags in simple UI animations and transitions. This, though, is absent from both the RedmiNote 4 and Moto G5 Plus.

There’s very little separating the Redmi Note 4 and Moto G5 Plus, however. The two phones are impressively fluid in regular usage, and app load times are kept to a minimum. The Redmi Note 4 is just slightly snappier than the Moto G5 Plus in this case, thanks to higher clock speeds. To be clear, both phones have the Snapdragon 625 clocked at 2GHz. However, Xiaomi seems to allow higher average clock speeds than the G5 Plus.

On the other hand, the extra Cortex A72 cores on the Snapdragon 652 running on the Coolpad Cool 1, give it extra speed over the other devices. Benchmarks obviously put the Cool 1 ahead of the other devices in this comparison, but the more powerful Cortex A72 cores make the SoC less power efficient. That said, the Cool 1 remains the most powerful amongst all these devices at the moment. However, this difference is difficult to spot in regular usage.