Last time I bought one it was a Huawei from 2017. It lasted me 6 years despite dropping it a lot. Don't need something with ton of power, I just wanna know what brands have good medium price range products.
Is xiami good? 
Last time I bought one it was a Huawei from 2017. It lasted me 6 years despite dropping it a lot. Don't need something with ton of power, I just wanna know what brands have good medium price range products.
Is xiami good?
Last year's flagships phones brand new, but on a stock clearance discount, are usually the best bang for buck in terms of performance to price ratio. So like a Galaxy s22 or s21FE. The s21FE base model should be really cheap for the hardware you're getting if you can find it for sale, I think it's under 250USD on websites like Amazon now.
For medium range there's the Xiaomi Redmi series and the Samsung Galaxy A series. The a52s and a73 being the highest end of the midrange from Samsung. Ideally at minimum you want something with at least 4 high performance cores for the CPU (most really cheap phones only have 2) and a high refresh rate display. The cheapest phone with this functionality seems to be the Xiaomi Redmi note 12 4g. It's 160 USD on Amazon. I strongly recommend against getting anything cheaper, you'll miss out on key features, and the phone will feel really slow to use if it only has 2 high performance CPU cores and a 60hz refresh rate display.
Also check what comes in the box, some phones come with a case and charger, some don't. And that's important if you're on a budget.
But seriously avoid at all costs any Android phone with only 2 big/high performance CPU cores. You can check the specs on websites like gsma arena. It will lag for eternity. 4 high performance cores at minimum, and if you have the money to splurge, a chipset with one ultra performance core among the rest would be ideal. Also stick to Snapdragon chipsets and avoid in house chipsets like Exynos and MediaTek if you can.