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$300 Can Get You a Surprisingly Solid 5G Phone
The OnePlus Nord N10 isn’t flashy and has its faults, but it is fun, peppy, and has excellent battery life
The smartphone market is an allegiance landmine. If you profess your admiration for Apple’s iPhone, the Android crowd call you a brain-washed rube who’s ignoring the wonders available in the open-source platform since 2009. If you praise Android, iOS fans remind you of all the ways the occasionally clunky platform still lags behind an iPhone.
As a tech journalist, I’ve had the luxury of using both platforms simultaneously. I lean iOS with an iPhone 12 Pro being my go-to device, but I’ve spent many hours, days, and weeks with LG ThinQs, Google’s Pixel, Samsung’s Galaxy line, and numerous OnePlus devices.
By now, there’s more parity than disparity between Android and iOS devices, especially at the flagship level. Still, Android beats the iPhone, hands down, when it comes to variety and price range. Even some of the newest Android handsets are well under $500. Apple’s cheapest iPhone is the $399, 4.7-inch iPhone SE (64 GB), a quality but decidedly old-school handset with a…
