Best Budget Phones Under £200 (Spring 2023) | Top 10 Reviewed

Reviewing the best budget smartphones of 2023 with a price under £200 here in the UK, including the top camera phones, gaming mobiles, 5G devices and more. I've fully tested a selection of favourite cheap blowers including the Moto G53, Xiaomi Poco M5 and Redmi Note 11, Nokia G22, plus Realme's latest Androids. Check out my budget smartphone unboxing videos and reviews right here on Tech Spurt to see more on the gaming, camera performance, battery life and beyond.

This round-up of the best affordable UK mobiles in 2023 starts with Motorola mobiles, including the Moto G53 and the Moto G23. These boast a gloriously stock Android vibe, like the budget-friendly Nokia smartphones. Hardware is more limited vs the Poco and Xiaomi handsets, and updates are limited, but they're still great for everyday users. And battery life is among the best for under £200.

The Nokia G22 is one of my favourite options for stock Android fans who want the reassurance of future updates. You can even replace the display and battery yourself, if you're brave enough. Meanwhile Xiaomi has several smartphones in this round-up of the best budget blowers in 2022, including the Redmi Note 11. One of my personal favourites with fairly dependable camera tech, aside from the poor video recording support. For a bit more money you can grab the Redmi Note 11 Pro on sale occasionally.

Don't sleep on Poco either - that M5 is still an absolute blinder, but don't bother with the C40, which is poor for that price.

Best Budget Smartphones Under £200 2023 Chapters:
0:00 - Waffle
0:43 - Motorola Moto G53
2:35 - Motorola Moto G23
4:10 - Nokia G22
6:14 - Nokia G11
6:34 - Nokia G50
7:53 - Poco M5
9:12 - Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 (& Pro)
10:41 - Realme 8 5G
11:09 - Realme C31 & C35
11:28 - Byyyyeeeee

[AC_Milan]

The budget phones are now so good there is seriously no need to spend loads.

[marknewlandmn]

Not a recent device but I just got two LG wing phones for my kids, they can be imported for less than £200 now. Great fun phone.

[glenmilne]

Top video again pal. You cut through the nonsense and tell me what I need to know.
On that.. Got a Poco F2 that's coming up for three years old. Still working well but had been thinking of something new and was thinking about the F5 whenever it's released but you've now got me wondering about the M5, Redmi Note 11 or even the Realme 8. Not a big mobile gamer so maybe don't need the horsepower of the F5...

[MANCHESTERUKABRIEFVIDEOOFTIME]

Glad to see your channel still alive and kicking . Genuinely I'm very savey and your my first stop when it's new phone time ❤❤

[Michael-xkft]

Great stuff, nice to see some impartial advice

[rob]

I just got the moto g73 5g from argos for £229 as a second phone and many hours of sat nav in the van. It was essential i had a lcd display to not get burn in. The screen is brilliant as is the performance. The stock launcher with a touch of moto is the perfect combo in my opinion. The camera isnt wonderful but the performance with 8gb of ram and the dimensity 930 chip makes it smooth and quick to use. The 120hz refresh helps also.. battery is lasting very well and overall its a light and pleasurable phone to use. Much unlike the samsung a13 i was getting frustrated with, i even had to put nova launcher on to make it more usable.
Dont get me wrong this moto g73 in all departments isnt like my s23 ultra, but for the cash it amazes me how far lower end phones have come. You wouldnt be dissapointed if you bought one. My s23 ultra didnt come with a case, charger and cable in the box either so moto has big respect in my eyes for that.

[mr_chillington]

As someone that lives in the US… I'm crying from all the choices we don't get. Great video as always!

[FerdinandThaBull]

i look forward to these type of "best of" videos

[simonbeasley]

I love my Xiaomi Redmi Note 10, the screen quality especially! Cost about a fifth of the top Samsungs and can't fault it. Fell out with Samsung a bit when they stopped including a charger.

[tjey]

Great, mud range is my thing so thank you

[kevinlawson]

I been using a BLU G91 Pro for about a year now and I love it, for $150.00 US it's well worth it .

[love__and__hope__]

Chipset reviews would be great. Is unisoc any good ? How about newest budget MediaTeks.

[edwardgrafton]

Hey Uncle Spurt is there no budget friendly Samsung phones under the £200 price range? I have the Xiaomi Redmi Note 11 phone but I haven't used it yet I don't know weather too keep it or even sell it.

[Imstarshine]

I'm looking forward to phones that come "out of the box" right out of the box. Meaning, no box is included. Please do battery longness lastingness videos.

[alexjordan]

Hi, can you help? Looking to replace broken Poco x3 NFC 😞 with something equivalent, as it seemed all round perfect, but as cheap as possible.
What would you recommend?
Only looking for basic stuff, phone call, messaging, insta facebook, etc. and some general internet surfing, some snapshot photography mainly people portraits, looked at a few of the ones in the video but most seemed quite slow responding compared with Poco x3, maybe because less ram or lower spec processor or not so good touch response from screen? Help! Thanks

[sdeck]

Any suggestions for small phones 6.0 inches or less under 200 Dollars?with a good camera and battery life ? I have a pixel 4a by the way.

[Im_the_captain_now]

Nokia G22 should come out of the box with andoid 13, have 1080p and at least have T610 or T612, instead of the same as the previous year, T606, for a slight cpu improvement

[davidjamesclarke]

Are you going to review the honour 8XA soon I’m thinking of buying it with 100 mega pixel camera

[JeffWaynee]

I love Motorola so much, and they have done some great things under Lenovo ownership. But it's obvious that they reduced the OS and security update dev staff, or have made them less efficient somehow.

[magicianable]

Can you please share with us the wallpaper app you are using, the wallpaper in your review looks great 👍