The 9 best affordable smartphones you can buy

The days of needing to pay top dollar to get a good smartphone are dead and buried.

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

But some devices are better than others. In our ongoing quest to help you find the best of the bunch, we've broken down the affordable end of the smartphone market, and rounded up the handsets worth buying today.