Recommendation for corporate Android phones around $300

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Ramjet99

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#215574 3-Jul-2017 15:58

With Windows Phones now an endangered species, I'm looking around for potential replacements for our business.

I'm looking at about $300 per handset with ability to provide Office 365 services (more of a given these days with the apps available)

Ideally fairly rugged or easy access to aftermarket cases to protect them

Easy for technically challenged end-users to configure

A finger print sensor to unlock would be a nice to have, camera quality not too important either.

Yabanize

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#1811045 3-Jul-2017 16:05

Look at the Meizu or Xiaomi phones from PB Tech. They will be on sale tonight from 6pm-midnight for cyber monday

^The above was before I read for business, but they're generally the best bang for buck phones at that kind of a price point

NikT

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#1812487 4-Jul-2017 12:06

Hey mate,

Heaps of options - I'd suggest taking a look at the Motorola G4 and G5 range, the Samsung Galaxy Xcover 4, Huawei's P10 Lite - or even the Galaxy J5 Prime and the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Special Edition.

Xcover 4 = super rugged, no need for a case. Redmi Note 3 = best bang for buck, fingerprint scanner, great specs, 5.5" screen, but cases are a pain because there's multiple variants with slightly different dimensions. P10 Lite is a higher spec more mid-range option with fingerprint and 4GB RAM.

Moto is likely to be the happy middle ground. Without knowing more about your requirements for network support and screen size, the Moto G5 should tick all the boxes in terms of speed, battery life, fingerprint scanner, and vanilla Android. The local variants are Dual SIM as well.

Drop a line through to the team at procurement@pbtech.co.nz and they'll hook you up with corporate pricing.

Product Manager @ PB Tech

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BlueShift

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#1812512 4-Jul-2017 12:49

We've just moved from Windows Phone to Samsung J5 Prime. It a good unit, with all the specs you could hope for in a $350ish phone. Plus being Sammy, there's enough of them around that there's a decent market in cases etc at good prices.

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#1813359 5-Jul-2017 17:08

Samsung J5 Prime doesn't support 5GHz WiFi. I know. Totally unacceptable in 2017.