The cheap phones are doing well. For the first time, you can pay as little as $250 for a phone and it will be protected for four years. Smooth performance that can crush most smartphone tasks, even gaming, and capture agreeable photos that won't make you want to look away are some of the things you'll find. The experience with the A13 5G has been mine.

The plastic build of this phone is cheap and attracts many fingerprints, but I have used it for nearly a month without a hitch. The A13 5G has the basics down for a very low price if you don't want to spend a lot of money on a phone.

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If you want to buy a cheap phone, you need a device that can run all of your favorite apps and games without lag or stutter. This is where the Mediatek Dimensity 700 processor succeeds. I have never seen this phone slow down, the apps open quickly, and the switch between them is quick. The games performed well on the device.

The A13 5G is powered by a 5,000-mAh battery cell. It is possible to get two full days out of this phone, but most of the time I ended up with a full day and a half of battery life. Unlike most cheap phones, there is no wireless charging and it will take some time to charge up.

The 64 gig of storage is low for a phone at this price, but there is a MicroSD card slot that will allow you to expand that space if you need it. A power button that doubles as a fingerprint sensor and a headphone jack are some of the perks on the new phone.

There are a lot of apps on the phone, but you can uninstall many of them, and there is still a lot of customization. It promises two OS upgrades and four years of security updates, which is more than any other company. The phone in this price range is the closest. The A13 5G launched on the same platform as the other ones, but has already been updated to the newer version of the software.

The screen of the phone is not good. It has a 90-hertz screen refresh rate. A smooth interaction with the display is possible. Things can seem fuzzy if you look closely. The poor screen brightness affected my experience with the phone. The auto-brightness feature is slow to adjust, and it can be hard to read the screen when you are outside in the sun. I had to manually adjust the screen brightness.

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There is a photograph of a man.

The portrait mode is on the A13 5G. You can see the effect of the depth camera on the back of the phone here. It's still a good shot for a $250 phone, despite the lackluster detail.

The camera system won't get any awards. Don't confuse the triple-camera array with reality. There is a main camera and two depth cameras. The latter is only useful for improving portrait mode photos with a more accurate blur effect, and I haven't found a need for the macro camera.