If only iOS will do, then 2022’s iPhone SE is the best cheap phone you can buy.
Nonetheless, it’s looking a little long in the tooth these days — not so much in speed, where it still gives most handsets a run for their money, but in design. It still packs that iPhone 8 aesthetic of a sizable ‘forehead’ and ‘chin’ bookending the screen. The latter contains a Home button, abandoned by all other iPhones five years ago in favor of Face ID.
