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If you retrieve you're having a crude yr, try being ZTE. The Chinese company began 2022 as a well-regarded telephone maker, particularly for supplying dependable budget models to U.S. carriers. Earlier you could blink, though, ZTE found itself at odds with U.S. officials, first over alleged ties to the Chinese government and subsequently for its part in selling telecom equipment to Iran and N Korea.

U.S. officials, ruling that ZTE had failed to live up to the terms of a plea agreement over trade ban violations, barred U.S. companies from doing business with ZTE. That includes suppliers that make the parts ZTE uses in its phones, not to mention Google, which builds the Android OS. As a consequence, ZTE halted operations this past week.

Wondering where that leaves you, the U.S. phone shopper? Because reader KerryT certainly is in our forums:

"I was considering upgrading one of my kids to a mid-range phone and he likes the specs on some of the ZTE phones similar the Blade Z or the Blade V8. Later what happened, nosotros're looking at alternatives. I considered a Huawei and a mid-range Moto telephone, just I'd like to hear suggestions please!"

The Blade V8 would take been a fine choice: We were certainly impressed by its battery life when we reviewed the phone, and ZTE was among the first phone makers to fit a pretty good dual-photographic camera setup into a $200-or-so device. Nevertheless, with the company ceasing operations, we tin empathize why you might exist skittish about ownership this otherwise solid budget model.

If y'all're looking for something with specs similar to those establish in the Bract V8, your best bet is the Laurels 7X, a $199 phone that outdoes ZTE'due south effort in several ways.

For starters, Honor gave the 7X an extra-wide display with an 18:9 aspect ratio — a design more phones are adapting these days. That means your budget device won't look out of place amongst more than expensive models like the iPhone 10 and Galaxy S9 that also boast that broad attribute ratio. You'll become dual rear cameras and skilful performance with this phone, though nosotros wish the battery life was a little better. (Lasting 9 hours, 21 minutes on our battery examination, the Laurels 7X falls about a half hour shy of the boilerplate smartphone.) Accolade is addressing one of our big complaints nigh the 7X by updating the phone's operating organization to Android Oreo.

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Nonetheless, Honor is owned by Huawei, some other Chinese phone maker that's having its own problems with the U.Southward. authorities these days. If you'd rather steer clear of those kinds of problems entirely, where practise y'all turn?

Because ZTE phones have been a favorite of prepaid carriers — and Boost, Cricket and MetroPCS continue to sell ZTE models — we perused the virtual aisles at those carriers to see if any suitable replacements defenseless our eye. Probably the best of the bunch is the Galaxy J7 Prime from Samsung, available through multiple carriers as well as unlocked. (The unlocked version has the better rear color.) You can notice amend specs in similarly priced phones — though many of those models come from ZTE and Huawei — but the J7 Prime has a good display and a retro charm in this era of elongated designs.

Other carrier options include the Alcatel Idol 5, available via Cricket. The specs on this phone are cypher to write dwelling about and we weren't impressed with the VR experience the telephone promises with an optional headset, merely you'll get a great display, fast charging and a fashionable-for-its-price pattern. We oasis't had a take chances to review the LG Ten Charge available at Boost, but nosotros were impressed by the battery life on its predecessor, the LG Ten Ability. And the Accuse boasts a larger bombardment (iv,500 mAH to four,100 on the Power).

KerryT mentioned Motorola as an option, and we're very impressed by the Moto G5 Plus, which packs premium features into a $200 device. If you don't desire to spend that much, the Moto E4 Plus delivers epic battery life for less than $200, and the biggest trade-off you'll take to make is the skimpy 16GB of storage on the phone.

Just unless you need a phone correct now, we'd propose holding off on those Moto models. The next generations of the One thousand and E series take already been announced, and nosotros like what we see after some hands-on time with the $249 Moto G6. The v.seven-inch G6 has a Total Hd+ brandish, dual rear cameras and a fingerprint sensor upfront. We wish Moto hadn't downgraded from the Snapdragon 600 series to a Snapdragon 450 processor, but we'll see how the telephone holds upwardly when we go information technology in for testing.

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And that's partly why right now is such a difficult fourth dimension to to buy a smartphone. While Motorola has appear the G6 and E5, along with a couple of other new phones, those won't commencement rolling out until June. So you lot take some options now that ZTE has closed up store — it'southward just that non all of them are available just notwithstanding.

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Philip Michaels is a Managing Editor at Tom's Guide. He's been covering personal technology since 1999 and was in the building when Steve Jobs showed off the iPhone for the beginning fourth dimension. He has strong opinions about Apple tree, the Oakland Athletics, old movies and proper slaughterhouse techniques. Follow him at @PhilipMichaels.