{"id":263557,"date":"2018-08-07T10:02:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T08:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=263557"},"modified":"2018-08-07T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T08:02:55","slug":"6-of-the-best-budget-smartphones-you-can-buy-for-less-than-r5000-in-south-africa-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/263557\/6-of-the-best-budget-smartphones-you-can-buy-for-less-than-r5000-in-south-africa-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"6 of the best budget smartphones you can buy for less than R5,000 in South Africa right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

HMD Global has announced that the new Nokia 3.1 is available to buy from MTN and Vodacom as well as leading retailers for R2,299.00<\/p>\n

The manufacturer said that the Nokia 3.1 is its most affordable 18:9 smartphone – delivering the same screen ratio you get on modern flagships.<\/p>\n

It boasts a larger 5.2-inch HD+ display which is protected by damage resistant 2.5D curved Corning Gorilla Glass 3.<\/p>\n

Internally the Nokia 3.1 runs MediaTek 6750, an octa-core chipset, giving you twice the processor cores and a 50% performance boost on the previous generation – alongside 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage.<\/p>\n

It also ships with Android Oreo out of the box, meaning you\u2019ll be able to enjoy the latest features – including Google Assistant, Google Lens, and Picture-in-Picture for multitasking.<\/p>\n

Colours available include blue\/copper and black\/chrome.<\/p>\n

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Budget options<\/strong><\/p>\n

HMD Global’s latest offering could be a big hit in South Africa given its budget price and premium features such as Gorilla glass.<\/p>\n

However it will likely face steep competition in a budget market where South African’s now expect flagship features as a given with their new phone purchases.<\/p>\n

Below BusinessTech looked at six of the best budget offerings available right now.<\/p>\n

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Huawei P Smart 32GB – R3,499<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 5A Prime 32GB – R2,999<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Samsung Galaxy J5 Prime 16GB LTE –\u00a0R<\/abbr>2,999<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Apple iPhone SE 32GB – R4,999<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hisense Infinity H11 – R4,999<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Honor 9 Lite 32GB – R3,499<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Read:\u00a0MTN offers 1GB free data for downloading its app<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HMD Global has announced that the new Nokia 3.1 is now available in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":263567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-263557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263557"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263581,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263557\/revisions\/263581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}