Struggling Between Premium Flagship & Smart Savings 😅

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I have been thinking of buying S24 ultra as the price has reduced drastically and it was available for 80k on Amazon in the recent sale. I don’t wanna spend north of 80-85k on a smartphone. Only thing bothering me is the charging speed as I always used phones that come with charging support of atleast 65W and I am a guy who charges his phone at very last moment.

The other options I have in my mind is Vivo X200. I am currently using vivo itself and no problem with the funtouch OS but I can’t genuinely justify spending so much for a vivo phone.

The last option is to buy a budget flagship phone in the likes of vivo x200fe or OnePlus 13s and spend the money saved on other tech stuff waiting on my wishlist to buy😅

A little about my usage: I manhandle the phones I use. Like I use no cover or screen protector and drop phones quite a lot and end up spending more than the price of the phone just on screen replacements. But I think if I buy an expensive phone, I might take care of it for a while, atleast. I am kinda power user, have lot of stuff running on the background. I rarely game on my phone, and when I do, it’s usually those brain rotting ones you stumble upon through Insta ads😂.

I am also open for other smartphone options under my budget.

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Just one thing, these phones have weak display protection, they get scratched very easily, even at level 4(if you know the terminology). They have cut corners.

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Would suggest to get s24u from the corporate store, was roughly 72k, you get one year accidental damage for free, else s24u enterprise edition,which is same s24u, with 3 years warranty and same 1yr accidental damage for free, was approx 75k.

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Also it charges approx 50% in 25 mins, with a 25w brick. You won’t miss fast charging much.

Even I charge once I hit 10- 15%, hasn’t been a problem

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You can go with this phone which comes under 41k and save the rest for your wishlist items.

It will last another 4 years at least.

Or

You can go with this phone also which comes under 34k and save the rest for your wishlist items.
Take a look at this F7 5G (Frost White, 512 GB) on Flipkart
https://dl.flipkart.com/dl/poco-f7-5g-frost-white-512-gb/p/itmc9c46413c5044?pid=MOBHCY2UZRUEBVGT&lid=LSTMOBHCY2UZRUEBVGTVBBJQY&marketplace=FLIPKART&sattr[]=color&sattr[]=storage&_refId=&_appId=CL

Both phones comes with SD 8s Gen4 but iQOO Neo 10 comes with 16GB/512GB while Poco F7 comes with 12GB/512GB storage.

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If you use the phone w/o a case & tempered glass, start doing that.

Maybe just buy a compact phone & use a case, the increase in bulkiness with case will still be less than bulk of S24U (size & weight).

If camera doesn’t matter much, OP 13s is good.

If you want better cameras than OP 13s & don’t mind about vivo’s UI & slightly lower performance (similar to 8 Gen 3), x200 FE is a great choice for you.

I’d rate UIs in the following order:
Samsung > Oppo/Oneplus > Vivo > Xiaomi