I'm late to this, but really, for questions like these, you really need to state two things:
- Roughly where you live. If I recommend something from Indonesia, and you live in the UK, that's not going to cut it, is it?
- A hard number for a budget, cheap has different meanings to different people across income groups. Cheap to me as broke student in my 20s is different from me as a working adult in my 40s.
That ship has sailed a long time ago. Even Xiaomi is moving away from that.