Reddit reviews Huawei Honor 8X (64GB + 4GB RAM) 6.5" HD 4G LTE GSM Factory Unlocked Smartphone - International Version No Warranty JSN-L23 (Black)
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4G LTE bands 1(2100), 2(1900), 3(1800), 4(1700/2100), 5(850), 7(2600), 28(700), 4G LTE TDD: B41, 3G WCDMA: B1/B2/B4/B5/B8, 2G GSM: B2/B3/B5/B8 - Dual SIM (Nano-SIM, dual stand-by) Check compatibility with your carrier before purchase. North and South American 4G LTE Compatible6. 5-inch Borderless full view display 1080 x 2340 pixels, 19. 5: 9 ratio (~397 pip density) - Glass Body with Visual Grating Effect64GB + 4GB RAM - micros, up to 400 GB (dedicated slot) - Kirin 710 powerful chipset - Non-removable Li-Po 3750 mash battery - GPU TurboRear (MAIN) Camera: 20MP AI Camera , depth sensor - Front Camera: 16MP selfie camera - Face UnlockCompatible with GSM Carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, Metrics, Straight Talk, etc. Does NOT work with Verizon/Sprint/Boost. International model, Does not have US .Bluetooth BT4.2 + BLE
Amazon has some great, relatively cheap, unlocked, and rootable phones.
Two notable ones:
Huawei Honor 8X ($190- 1080p, Kirin 710, 4GB RAM, 64GB ROM)I would most recommend the Huawei Honor 8X. It's a phenomenal phone for the price, and is very much rootable.Edit: the Honor 8X requires an unlock code to unlock the bootloader, sadly.
All of these phones have full guides available on XDA Developers forums.
Taking a first glance at it, it looks pretty solid. Runs the newest android OS 9.0, has plenty of RAM if you want to do gaming on it. Like you wanted, there are also versions with enough storage that you can download apps without having to worry about deleting others. I don't know if you saw this post on amazon, but that looks like a good deal. A couple others I could reccomend to you are the Huawei Honor 8X, which looks like it should suit your needs. If you are willing to stretch further from your budget for a phone that may last longer for about $250 at the time of posting this, I would reccomend to you the Nokia 7.1. A couple reasons you might want to go for this is that it suits your needs, but it is a more well known and trusted company. I used to have one of these and it was a great phone, although my model was older and the speakers broke once after a couple years. Nevertheless, Nokia has great customer service (which is very important), and they fixed the phone right away. They had me send it to them and even paid for my shipping label and got it back to me within the week. If you want the better customer service and are willing to pay a bit more, then go for the Nokia. If not, the Honor 8X, Galaxy A50, and the P Smart are all great choices. One thing to note is that all three of those are quite similar (in fact, by just looking at the front, you can't even tell which is which!) Under the hood, things are similar. So if you find any of those 3 on a deal, I would just recommend to go for the cheaper one. But in my opinion, if you can afford it, go for the Nokia.
It is not available in the states and it most likely won't be available in the states since Huawei has been pulling out the US smartphone market after the US accused them of spying for Chinese government. If you want to buy it in the US you can without a warranty. For the most part band coverage is bad, though this page on amazon suggests that the phone has bands 2 and 4 which at&t, and tmobile uses, I haven't found another source that confirms this as the official hihonor store seems to disagree with the bands on amazon, I would play it safe and avoid unless you don't mind not having 4GLTE
some benchmarks:
Samsung Galaxy A30
Basemark OS ii: 1772
Basemark X: 11270
Motorola Moto G6 Plus
Basemark OS ii: 1626
Basemark X: 14357
Basemark OS ii is more important for general system performance, Basemark X is more indicative of graphic/gaming performance.
So you get better gaming performance out of the G6 than the Galaxy.
If you want a big boost to performance for similar money to the A30 then I would get
Huawei Honor 8X
Basemark OS ii: 2493
Basemark X: 20416
it uses a Kirin 710 and you can get it for $172 on Amazon
or perhaps
Xiaomi Redmi Note 7
Basemark OS ii: 2716
Basemark X: 21201
with a Snapdragon 660 for $180 on Amazon