MID-RANGE SAMSUNG GALAXY S21 FE

While the flagship Galaxy S22 phones might grab most of the headlines in 2022, there’s plenty of value to be had from Samsungs lower down on the price scale – like the Galaxy S21 FE. It takes the best bits of last year’s Galaxy S21, and wraps them up in a more affordable package.

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Price from ₹54,990 / samsung.com/in

Even with its mid-premium price, this is a phone that scores highly in whatever category you want to pick: performance, camera quality, design, screen, battery life, software, and more besides. You’re covered for 5G connectivity, you get full IP68 water/dust resistance, and there’s support for wired and wireless charging as well. It’s difficult to find any feature that this phone doesn’t have.

Power: silky The S21 FE is powered by the Exynos 2100 processor, like the Galaxy S21 before it, and that ensures your most important day-to-day smartphone tasks – checking social media, playing games, using maps to get from A to B – will be taken care of with aplomb.

Add in up to 8GB of RAM and up to 256GB of internal storage, and this is a very well specced phone compared with many others in its price range. While performance might not seem as important as it is when picking a laptop, you don’t want to have any lag when switching between apps and screens… and higher-end components also mean the S21 FE is probably going to last you longer than most rivals.