Top 6 Best Cheap Smartphones from Itel | Articles | Phones

Itel Mobile is a Chi­nese brand that man­ages to cre­ate ultra-bud­get smart­phones. The price for them does not exceed 10–12 thou­sand rubles, and wor­thy mod­els can be found from the entire range. Of course, they can­not com­pete with the top cam­era phones from Xiao­mi or Huawei. But with the main tasks (com­mu­ni­ca­tion in instant mes­sen­gers and social net­works, open­ing brows­er pages, etc.) they do an excel­lent job. Today we will talk about cheap Itel smart­phones, which, in our opin­ion, deserve atten­tion.

Itel smart­phones are among the cheap­est on the mar­ket. Pho­to: www.gadgetstouse.com

How to choose an inex­pen­sive smart­phone
Itel Vision 1 Pro
Itel A49
Itel Vision 2S
Itel Vision 3
Itel Vision 3 Plus
Out­come

How to choose an inexpensive smartphone

It is impor­tant to note right away that Itel phones are not designed to run heavy appli­ca­tions or new super games. They can­not become a replace­ment for expen­sive cam­era phones. These are bud­get gad­gets with lim­it­ed fea­tures.

If you need the cheap­est smart­phone for dai­ly tasks (open appli­ca­tions, files, com­mu­ni­cate, take pho­tos in aver­age qual­i­ty), you can choose the best option among Itel prod­ucts.

When choos­ing a suit­able mod­el, you should look at the fol­low­ing para­me­ters:

- amount of ran­dom access mem­o­ry (RAM). It depends on its quan­ti­ty — how quick­ly the gad­get can open / close pages. Itel has mod­els with 1 GB of RAM. But this is not enough for com­fort­able use. After a cou­ple of months, they begin to slow down on sim­ple tasks (open the appli­ca­tion). There­fore, we did not include such mod­els in the top. 2–3 GB — the min­i­mum amount of RAM that a smart­phone should have so that it does not slow down when open­ing the phone book, SMS, brows­er pages;

- the amount of inter­nal mem­o­ry. The more it is, the more appli­ca­tions you can install, store pho­tos and videos. It is bet­ter to choose from 32 GB, no less;

- Bat­tery capac­i­ty. The larg­er the bat­tery capac­i­ty, the longer the smart­phone will last on a sin­gle charge. It is opti­mal to choose from 3500–4000 mAh. With such a bat­tery, the phone will last up to 8–9 hours on a sin­gle charge with con­stant use;

- screen res­o­lu­tion. It depends on how bright and clear the pic­ture will be. If the res­o­lu­tion is very low, then the eyes will get tired when watch­ing the video, scrolling the tape. There­fore, a res­o­lu­tion below 1600x720 is not even worth con­sid­er­ing;

- Screen size — indi­vid­ual set­ting. If you like minia­ture mod­els, it is bet­ter to choose up to 6 inch­es. If large — from 6 inch­es.

Now let’s move on to our rat­ing. All prices are valid at the time of writ­ing.

Itel phones are dis­tin­guished by their low price and long bat­tery life. Pho­to: techvorm.com

Itel Vision 1 Pro

The cheap­est Itel smart­phone from our top. A mod­el in a clas­sic mod­ern design: a min­i­mum of details, thin frames, round­ed edges. For a diag­o­nal of 6.52, the res­o­lu­tion of 1600x720 is not top-end. But it is stan­dard for this price range. For exam­ple, Xiao­mi Red­mi 9A has the same screen res­o­lu­tion. The pic­ture will be quite clear and bright.

Respon­si­ble for the speed of the 4‑core proces­sor Spread­trum SC9832 with a fre­quen­cy of 1.4 GHz. RAM 2 GB. All this sug­gests that this mod­el is not intend­ed for games or work with con­tent.

But the Itel Vision 1 Pro phone will do just fine with basic tasks:

• open pages in the brows­er with­out freezes;
• run unde­mand­ing games (for exam­ple, Three in a row);
• turn on video, music in the play­er;
• make calls and send SMS;
• open instant mes­sen­gers and social net­works;
• take pho­tos and shoot videos. The main cam­era is 8 MP and the front cam­era is 5 MP. There is no built-in arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence that improves pic­tures. But such a cam­era is enough to take a clear pho­to in day­light or arti­fi­cial light.

In addi­tion, the Itel Vision 1 Pro smart­phone has a 4000 mAh bat­tery, which is enough for a full 8–9 hours of active use.

Itel Vision 1 Pro is not a top cam­era phone, but it can be used to take a clear, bright pic­ture. Pho­to: memeburn.com

Itel A49

Com­pact Itel phone (75.9x16x8.55 mm) with a styl­ish design in a black plas­tic case. The sur­face is mat­te, non-mark­ing, prints do not remain on the sur­face. Dif­fers from the pre­vi­ous mod­el:

• dimen­sions (6.56 inch­es vs. 6.52);
• cam­era. This mod­el is worse. Main 5 MP vs 8 MP in Itel Vision 1 Pro.

The mod­el, like the pre­vi­ous one, is equipped with a 4‑core proces­sor with a fre­quen­cy of 1.4 GHz. Only not Spread­trum SC9832, but Unisoc SC9832E. Since there is only one price seg­ment, they are almost iden­ti­cal in terms of per­for­mance.

But the Itel A49 smart­phone was released in 2022, and the Vision 1 Pro in 2020. The A49 has more mod­ern hard­ware that will become obso­lete lat­er. There­fore, if you expect to use this smart­phone for 2–3 years, it is bet­ter to take a new­er mod­el.

New com­pact mod­el from Itel. Pho­to: irshadgul.com

Itel Vision 2S

Com­pact mod­el (166x76.3x8.9 mm) with a very capa­cious bat­tery. Its capac­i­ty is 5000 mAh. This is enough for 10–12 hours of con­tin­u­ous use.

Styl­ish design is a fea­ture of this mod­el. The case is made in sev­er­al col­ors: dark blue and bright blue. The sides are round­ed as much as pos­si­ble to make the body seem very thin. And the frame around the screen is almost invis­i­ble. This makes the 6.52-inch dis­play look even larg­er.

The smart­phone Itel Vision 2S has an 8 MP main cam­era, a 5 MP front cam­era. Enough to take a self­ie and cap­ture an impor­tant event.

In gen­er­al, the Itel Vision 2S phone is a bud­get mod­el for chil­dren or those who do not need a top-end gam­ing phone or cam­era phone. It does an excel­lent job with basic func­tions.

Inex­pen­sive, com­pact and styl­ish smart­phone. Pho­to: androidmir.org

Itel Vision 3

Bud­get nov­el­ty 2022. This smart­phone clear­ly stands out from the pre­vi­ous ones thanks to:

• 3 GB of RAM;
• 8‑core proces­sor Unisoc SC9863A with a fre­quen­cy of 1.6 Hz.

This makes it faster, more pow­er­ful, more reli­able. He can no longer only open mes­sages, pho­tos and tabs in the brows­er. But also run unde­mand­ing pro­grams (for exam­ple, Meitu — for edit­ing images), medi­um-pow­ered games.

The large 6.6‑inch dis­play makes it easy to read, edit pho­tos, watch videos and play games. And thanks to the light sen­sor, the smart­phone will change the dis­play bright­ness to a more suit­able one to reduce eye strain.

The bat­tery capac­i­ty is 5000 mAh — this is enough for up to 10–12 hours of con­stant use. There is wire­less charg­ing. With its help, in 2 hours you can ful­ly charge the gad­get from 0 to 100%.

And the Itel Vision 3 smart­phone also made it to the top of the most reli­able cheap smart­phones for Android 2022 — you can read more about this in our blog.

Styl­ish new 2022. Pho­to: unbox.ph

Itel Vision 3 Plus

The top mod­el on our list. This is anoth­er nov­el­ty of 2022, which stands out from the back­ground of all mod­els from Itel. Her virtues:

• 1.6 GHz UNISoC T606 8‑core proces­sor, which in com­bi­na­tion with 4 GB pro­vides fast per­for­mance with­out slow­downs;
• large screen (6.8 inch­es) — the max­i­mum in our top;
• good cam­era. 13 MP main and 8 MP front. By com­par­i­son, this is bet­ter than the pop­u­lar Xiao­mi Red­mi 9C 4/128Gb from the same price cat­e­go­ry. Their main cam­eras are iden­ti­cal, and Xiaomi’s front cam­era is slight­ly worse — 5 megapix­els;
• capa­cious bat­tery — 6000 mAh. This is enough to enjoy watch­ing videos, film­ing con­tent and play­ing games for 10–12 hours;
• 64 GB of inter­nal mem­o­ry is enough for appli­ca­tions, videos and pho­tos. And if you need more space, you can install an addi­tion­al mem­o­ry card.

And if you want to com­pare Itel Vision 3 Plus and Itel Vision 3 smart­phones in detail, we rec­om­mend that you read a spe­cial arti­cle from our blog. It sum­ma­rizes the sim­i­lar­i­ties and dif­fer­ences between these mod­els.

The most pow­er­ful smart­phone from Itel brand. Pho­to: dgl.ru

We col­lect­ed the char­ac­ter­is­tics of Itel phones from our top in one table.

Outcome

How to choose a suit­able cheap smart­phone from the mod­els offered by Itel? It is impor­tant to decide on the pur­pose of the pur­chase:

- the sim­plest phone for a child: Itel Vision 1 Pro or Itel A49;

– bud­get smart­phone for basic tasks: Itel Vision 1 Pro, Itel A49, Itel Vision 2S;

- a smart­phone for com­mu­ni­ca­tion, work­ing with files and run­ning unde­mand­ing appli­ca­tions — Itel Vision 3;

- a uni­ver­sal gad­get (for run­ning non-top games, shoot­ing con­tent and com­mu­ni­ca­tion) — Itel Vision 3 Plus.