I'll eat my hat if there’s a better cheap phone deal than this one before Black Friday

When my colleague described the Motorola Edge 60 as “the best cheap phone [he’s] tested in years” and “as good as the most expensive phones” in his Motorola Edge 60 review earlier this year, I sat up and took notice.

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It’s easy to focus on the bigger names – namely Apple, Samsung, Google – when recommending lower-end models to smartphone buyers in search of a no-frills upgrade, but the Motorola Edge 60 stands firmly alongside the Samsung Galaxy A56 and Google Pixel 9a as one of the best cheap phones money can buy in 2025. And right now, it’s never been cheaper.

Specifically, the Motorola Edge 60 is now just £299.99 (was £349) at Amazon, John Lewis, Currys, Argos, and many more retailers, making it, for me, the best cheap phone deal of the month so far. What ...