For one reason or the other, you may be in the market for cheap smartphones. Maybe your budget is tight, you require a phone to hold off before you get a better one or you simply want to get someone a gift.

There’s an endless list of smartphones that you can buy from stalls around cities in Kenya but the chances of you getting a fake phone are pretty high.

We have carefully curated a shortlist of smartphones that cost Kes.5,000 and below, ensuring that these phones are worth your money – regardless of how cheap they are.

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Neon Nova LTE – Kes.4600

• Display: 5.2″ HD
• Memory: 8GB internal storage (with memory card support) + 1GB RAM
• Network: 4G
• Software: Android 8.1 Oreo (Go Edition)
• Battery Capacity: 2500mAh
• Camera: 2MP Selfie + 5MP Main

Neon Lite – Kes.5000

• Display: 4″
• Memory: 8GB internal storage (with memory card support) + 1GB RAM
• Network: 4G
• Software: Android 8.1 Oreo (Go Edition)
• Battery Capacity: 1500mAh
• Camera: VGA Selfie + 5MP Main

itel A32F LTE – Kes.5000

• Display: 5″
• Memory: 8GB internal storage (with memory card support) + 1GB RAM
• Network: 4G
• Software: Android 8.1 Oreo (Go Edition)
• Battery Capacity: 2050mAh
• Camera: 2MP Selfie + 5MP Main
• Other: Fingerprint scanner

Xiaomi Redmi Go

• Display: 5″ HD
• Memory: 8GB internal storage (with memory card support) + 1GB RAM
• Network: 4G
• Software: Android 8.1 Oreo (Go Edition)
• Battery Capacity: 3000mAh
• Camera: 5MP Selfie + 8MP Main
• Other: Snapdragon processor