Smartphones are awesome, there's no doubt
about that. They take photos, play music, run apps, and do all kinds of neat
things that weren't even imaginable just a few years ago. But at the same time,
they can be pretty expensive. A top-of-the-line smartphone may cost well over
$600 unlocked, and many people just aren't willing or able to pay that much to
own one.
Thankfully, there's the low-end spectrum of
the smartphone market. There's a whole bunch of not-so-expensive devices that
offer many of the core features expected from a smartphone without costing an
arm and a leg. And we aren't talking about those no-name Android shipped in white
boxes directly from China. There's a fair number of affordable brand-name
smartphones, and in this post we've put together some of the cheapest among
them. All of the smartphones listed here have been launched on the market in 2013
so they are all pretty new models running recent versions of their operating
systems. Check them out in the slideshow below!
