The 7 best affordable smartphones you can buy

Business Insider/Steve KovachThe days of needing to pay top dollar to get a good smartphone are dead and buried.

The smartphone has become a commodity, and as such the costs of manufacturing something decent has gone down. That means great phones are now common for a price of around $400, and good phones are available for much less than that.

Still, some devices are better than others. So after testing a whole lot of phones this year, we've broken down the affordable side of the market, and rounded up the handsets worth buying.