Early this month, I pulled the trigger and bought what was arguably the cheapest 4G smartphone available anywhere.  At £49.

99 including tax and delivery (that’s about $65, A$90), the Mara X1 was on sale from Amazon UK (opens in new tab) (but appears to be out of stock at the time of writing). There are other cheaper smartphones on the market (via Aliexpress) but the X1 is the only new handset that combines 3GB of RAM and a recent iteration of Google’s ubiquitous mobile OS, Android.
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